Elusah

Elusah meaning Voice of Songs in Elvish was considered the mother tongue of the Elves long before their arrival in Dageth as refugees after the collapse of the Unified Elven Empire. The language, itself, was said to almost sound like music, and all Elves spoke it to signify their unity. The only problem was that the language was hard to understand for those who did not speak it. It was also difficult to read as complex letters could only be deciphered by the Elves, themselves.

A language Lost

Though the Elusah would be still be used by the Elves for a time when they were still a unified people on the Dageth, the discovery of magic and what would lead to the War of Light and Dark and the event that would lead to the Awakening would see an end to it. With the Elves being divided into different species from the magic that they once tried to control and the stopping of their immortality caused them to scatter across the land with the ancient Elves that lived for millennia dying out the newer generations began to alter it to suit their need with much of the original dialect being lost to say a select few and much of its writing from conflicts that would push them farther away from their past.

Unreadable Texts

Due to Elusah being no longer used by anyone anymore anything that has been written down in the language is considered unreadable. Which is even more frustrating to Humans in the Western Lands as any knowledge that the Elves had left behind has been lost to the ages to them with what little they could find. The Elves themselves have had trouble as well as the writing in their language has become difficult to understand as their alphabets have changed tremendously cause them to lose whatever knowledge lost to them as well as very few people can even write it anymore.

Natively known as: Elusah /ˈɣlʊhviːŋks/

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind... mēyy kwū dfūnflō zēb sō lyīlk mēyy kmikō sō syōsp kindz bwenk yo Pronunciation: /meːjj kwuː ˈdfuːnfloː zæːb soː ljiːlk meːjj ˈkmɪkoː soː sjoːsp kɪndz bwænk jɔ/ Gluhvīngksian word order: and he stood holding hat his and turned his face wet the wind to

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: /b d f h j k l m n p s t v w z ð ŋ ɣ θ/

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal	m			n		ŋ
Stop	p b			t d		k
Fricative		f v	θ ð	s z		ɣ	h
Approximant					j
Lateral approximant				l

Co-articulated phonemes

↓Manner/Place→	Labial-velar
Approximant	w

Vowel inventory: /a aː eː iː oː uː æ æː ɔ ɪ ʊ/

	Front	Back
High	iː	uː
Near-high	ɪ	ʊ
High-mid	eː	oː
Low-mid		ɔ
Near-low	æː æ
Low	a aː

Syllable structure: (C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C) Stress pattern: No fixed stress Word initial consonants: b, bl, bn, bw, d, df, dl, dv, dvj, fl, hj, j, k, kh, kl, km, kn, ks, kst, kw, lj, m, mj, ml, n, nj, nw, pj, pl, s, sj, sl, sn, sw, th, tm, tsv, tv, v, vj, vl, vn, vw, w, z, zj, zn, zw, ð, ŋ, ŋw, ɣ, ɣl, θ, θl Mid-word consonants: b, bd, bl, bst, bt, bvj, bw, d, dkw, dl, dn, ds, f, fd, ff, fk, fl, fp, fst, ftl, ftw, fw, h, hb, hd, hl, hv, hw, j, jb, jdn, jf, jj, jk, jsk, jt, jvj, jz, k, kb, kd, kj, kkj, kkw, kn, ksf, ksj, ksk, ksm, ksp, kst, ksw, ktf, ktl, kts, kv, l, lb, ld, ldf, ldh, ldl, ldn, lf, lfd, lfm, lft, lkj, llv, lmn, lp, lpf, lpl, lsh, lsk, lst, lt, ltj, lts, ltz, lv, lð, lθ, m, mbj, mbl, mfl, mft, mnd, mp, mpf, mpj, mpl, mpt, ms, mst, n, nb, nbl, nd, ndb, ndf, ndj, ndk, ndl, ndm, ndn, nds, ndt, ndz, nf, nfj, nfl, nj, nkj, nkl, nkt, nkw, nlj, nm, nmj, nnj, npj, npl, ns, nsf, nsj, nsk, nsl, nsm, nsp, nst, ntb, ntf, nth, ntj, ntk, ntl, ntm, nts, ntv, ntw, nzl, nzp, nð, nɣ, nθj, nθl, p, pk, pl, plw, pn, ppl, ps, psj, pst, pw, pz, s, sb, sd, sf, sh, skj, skl, skv, sp, spj, spl, st, stf, stj, stk, stl, stm, stn, stv, stw, sz, sθ, t, tb, tbl, td, tlm, tm, ts, tsd, tsj, tsm, tst, tth, tts, tv, tw, tz, v, vd, vl, w, wk, wl, ws, wts, wv, ww, z, zb, zd, zdv, zh, zk, zm, zn, zp, zv, zz, ð, ðst, ŋ, ŋb, ŋd, ŋh, ŋkf, ŋkj, ŋkl, ŋkn, ŋkt, ŋkw, ŋkθ, ŋl, ŋm, ŋmj, ŋn, ŋtj, ŋts, ŋɣn, ɣ, θ, θd, θkw, θw Word final consonants: b, bb, d, ft, fts, jd, jj, jl, js, jt, kt, kts, l, ldz, lk, ll, lps, lpt, ls, lt, lts, lθ, m, mp, mpf, mps, mpt, ms, mt, mz, n, ndd, ndl, nds, ndz, nf, nk, nkt, ns, nt, ntl, nts, nv, nz, p, pp, pt, pts, s, sks, skt, sp, spt, st, sts, t, tt, v, vd, w, wf, ws, z, zd, zt, ðd, ŋ, ŋd, ŋk, ŋks, ŋkt, ŋkθ, ŋn, ŋt, ŋz, ɣ, θ
Phonological changes (in order of application):

• p → f / V_V
• {m,n} → ŋ / _k
• s → ʂ / _t
• {m,n} → ŋ / _k

Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
æ	e
ɪ	i
ɔ	o
ʊ	u
j	y
ŋ	ng
ɣ	g
θ	th
ð	dh
V₁ː	V₁̄

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Grammar

Main word order: Subject Verb Object (Prepositional phrase). "Mary opened the door with a key" turns into Mary opened the door with a key. Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned after the noun. Adposition: postpositions

Nouns

Singular	No affix dfīi /dfiːˈɪ/ dog
Plural	If starts with vowel: Prefix w- Else: Prefix weː- wēdfīi /ˈweːdfiːɪ/ dogs

Articles

Definite	zyom /zjɔm/ the
Indefinite	dvō /dvoː/ a, some

Uses of definite article that differ from English:

• Used to talk about countable nouns in general: English’s ‘I like cats’ would translate to ‘I like the cats’
• Used with place names: ‘The London’

Uses of indefinite article that differ from English:

• Not used for non-specific countable nouns: non-specific means ‘I am looking for a (any) girl in a red dress’, whereas specific means ‘I am looking for a (particular) girl in a red dress’
• Not used for non-specific mass (uncountable) nouns: non-specific means ‘Would you like some (any) tea?’ whereas specific means ‘Some tea (a specific amount) fell off the truck’

Pronouns

1st singular	gīs /ɣiːs/ I, me, mine
2nd singular	dvye /dvjæ/ you, yours
3rd singular masc	kwū /kwuː/ he, him, his, it, its
3rd singular fem	a /a/ she, her, hers, it, its
1st plural inclusive	nuz /nʊz/ we (including you), us (including you), ours (including you)
1st plural exclusive	myēnts /mjeːnts/ we (excluding you), us (excluding you), ours (excluding you)
2nd plural	sli /slɪ/ you all, yours (pl)
3rd plural	hyi /hjɪ/ they, them, theirs

Possessive determiners

1st singular	zē /zæː/ my
2nd singular	wēw /weːw/ your
3rd singular masc	sō /soː/ his
3rd singular fem	wēngt /weːŋt/ her
1st plural inclusive	sli /slɪ/ our (including you)
1st plural exclusive	flē /flæː/ our (excluding you)
2nd plural	yā /jaː/ your (pl)
3rd plural	ī /iː/ their

Verbs

	Singular	Plural
Present	Prefix ɪ- ikans /ˈɪkans/ (I/you/he/she) learns	Prefix pjæ- pyekans /pjæˈkans/ (we/they) learn
Past	Prefix aː- ākans /ˈaːkans/ (I/you/he/she) learned	If starts with vowel: Prefix lj- Else: Prefix ljuː- lyūkans /ˈljuːkans/ (we/they) learned
Remote past	If starts with vowel: Prefix th- Else: Prefix tha- thakans /ˈthakans/ (I/you/he/she) learned (long ago)	If starts with vowel: Prefix v- Else: Prefix vɔ- vokans /vɔˈkans/ (we/they) learned (long ago)
Future	Prefix ða- dhakans /ðaˈkans/ (I/you/he/she) will learn	Prefix njaː- nyākans /njaːˈkans/ (we/they) will learn

Numbers

Gluhvīngksian has a base-20 number system:
1 - kstēnts 2 - myēnts 3 - blō 4 - ingkwī 5 - vwā 6 - slo 7 - kwō 8 - ki 9 - tve 10 - bwe 11 - kingdi 12 - sōng 13 - āngt 14 - web 15 - thongktandz 16 - ivd 17 - zunthya 18 - istha 19 - myaldz 20 - yoms 21 - yomskstēnts “twenty-one” 400 - kstēnts ātthenfē “one fourhundred” 401 - kstēnts ātthenfē kstēnts “one fourhundred one” 800 - myēnts ātthenfē “two fourhundred” 8000 - kstēnts klīngk “one eightthousand”

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = If starts with vowel: Prefix v- Else: Prefix vɔ- Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Prefix vɔ- Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Prefix eː- Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix w- Else: Prefix wæ- Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = If starts with vowel: Prefix ð- Else: Prefix ða- Noun to verb = If starts with vowel: Prefix ɣ- Else: Prefix ɣiː- Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix mj- Else: Prefix mja- Tending to = If starts with vowel: Prefix ɣ- Else: Prefix ɣiː- Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If starts with vowel: Prefix pl- Else: Prefix pluː- Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If starts with vowel: Prefix d- Else: Prefix doː- One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Prefix a- Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = Prefix slɪ- Diminutive = Prefix ɔ- Augmentative = Prefix næː-

Geographical Distribution

The language was primaly used by the Elves when they were once one people before the fall of the Unified Elven Empire with all speaking it

Spoken by

• Elvasha