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Jukethatbox (talk | contribs) Created page with "{{construction}} {{infobox language | name = Elvarri | nativename = elvariu / elvarriu | pronunciation = elˈvarju | creator = User:Jukethatbox | created = 2026 | fam1 = Luxelvic | fam2 = North Luxelvic | ancestor1 = Proto-Luxelvic | ancestor2 = Proto-North Luxelvic | setting = Hamanna | notice = ipa | ethnicity = Elvars | scripts = Nagri | state = Elvod }} '''Elvarri''' (''elvariu'' or ''elvarriu'' [elˈvarju]), also called '''Levarian''', is a w:Classica..." |
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'''Elvarri''' (''elvariu'' or ''elvarriu'' [[Help:IPA|[elˈvarju]]]), also called '''Levarian''', is a [[w:Classical language|classical language]] of the Luxelvic family. Elvarri was | '''Elvarri''' (''elvariu'' or ''elvarriu'' [[Help:IPA|[elˈvarju]]]), also called '''Levarian''', is a [[w:Classical language|classical language]] of the Luxelvic family. Elvarri was originally spoken by the Elvars, a tribe of Fairelves native to Elvod, a region at the mouth of the Separ river on the island of Haparod. It then became a dominant language of Haparod through the short-lived empire of Nagripon, who also oversaw the invention of Nagri script. After the death of Nagripon, his empire fractured into the Nagripu city-states, which then spread Elvarri as a dominant [[w:Trade language|trade language]] across the Inner Waters as these city-states developed into seafaring trade empires. It was the most spoken language in Hamanna in the Age of Stone, and has a large influence on most modern languages, especially the various elf languages. It also still has considerable use as a [[w:Sacred language|liturgical language]] of the Sun Temple (''Vasnadom'') and the Great Bay Nation (''Duvargamiod''). | ||
Elvarri is a mostly agglutinative, strictly VSO, adjective-noun and informally [[w:Pro-drop language|pro-drop]] language with a complex system of [[w:Grammatical|case inflections]], verb inflections, and a twoway [[w:Animacy|animacy]] distinction of animate and inanimate. | Elvarri is a mostly agglutinative, strictly VSO, adjective-noun and informally [[w:Pro-drop language|pro-drop]] language with a complex system of [[w:Grammatical|case inflections]], verb inflections, and a twoway [[w:Animacy|animacy]] distinction of animate and inanimate. | ||
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| rowspan=2 | {{ipa|/r/}} + {{ipa|/t/}} || {{ipa|/ʔ/}} > {{ipa|/∅/}} || ''gor'''t''''' "container"</br>''ennar'''t''''' "inserting" | | rowspan=2 | {{ipa|/r/}} + {{ipa|/t/}} || {{ipa|/ʔ/}} > {{ipa|/∅/}} || ''gor'''t''''' "container"</br>''ennar'''t''''' "inserting" | ||
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| {{ipa|/θ/}} or {{ipa|/ts/}} || ''ennar'''t'''o'' "to insert"</br>''ver'''t''' | | {{ipa|/θ/}} or {{ipa|/ts/}} || ''ennar'''t'''o'' "to insert"</br>''ver'''t'''uk'' "healer" | ||
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| {{ipa|/r/}} + {{ipa|/d/}} || {{ipa|/ð/}} or {{ipa|/dz/}} || ''tor'''d'''aski'' "helm-changing;</br>(figuratively) a boring but necessary task"</br>''mur'''d'''o'' "to water" | | {{ipa|/r/}} + {{ipa|/d/}} || {{ipa|/ð/}} or {{ipa|/dz/}} || ''tor'''d'''aski'' "helm-changing;</br>(figuratively) a boring but necessary task"</br>''mur'''d'''o'' "to water" | ||
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| Elvarri | |
|---|---|
| elvariu / elvarriu | |
| Pronunciation | [elˈvarju] |
| Created by | Jukethatbox |
| Date | 2026 |
| Setting | Hamanna |
| Native to | Elvod |
| Ethnicity | Elvars |
Luxelvic
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Early forms | Proto-Luxelvic
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| Nagri | |
Elvarri (elvariu or elvarriu [elˈvarju]), also called Levarian, is a classical language of the Luxelvic family. Elvarri was originally spoken by the Elvars, a tribe of Fairelves native to Elvod, a region at the mouth of the Separ river on the island of Haparod. It then became a dominant language of Haparod through the short-lived empire of Nagripon, who also oversaw the invention of Nagri script. After the death of Nagripon, his empire fractured into the Nagripu city-states, which then spread Elvarri as a dominant trade language across the Inner Waters as these city-states developed into seafaring trade empires. It was the most spoken language in Hamanna in the Age of Stone, and has a large influence on most modern languages, especially the various elf languages. It also still has considerable use as a liturgical language of the Sun Temple (Vasnadom) and the Great Bay Nation (Duvargamiod).
Elvarri is a mostly agglutinative, strictly VSO, adjective-noun and informally pro-drop language with a complex system of case inflections, verb inflections, and a twoway animacy distinction of animate and inanimate.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m | n | ɳ | ɲ | ŋ | |||||||
| Stop | p | b | t | d | k | g | ʔ | |||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | z | ʂ | x | (ɣ) | h | ||||
| Rhotic | r | ɽ | ||||||||||
| Liquid | l | ɭ | ||||||||||
| Semivowel | j | w | ||||||||||
The retroflex consonants (/ɳ ʂ ɽ ɭ/) were originally marked with an underdot as ⟨ṇ ṣ ṛ ḷ⟩. However, these were rarely used, and by the Age of Stone most inscriptions did not mark the retroflexes at all, save for /ɽ/, which was often written ⟨r⟩ while trill /r/ was written ⟨rr⟩.
Various consonants were also prone to mutation after /r/, a process called hurdaski ([xr̩ˈðaski] "r-changing") or hurhassi ([xr̩ˈxaʂi] "r-morphing"):
| Process | Resultant phoneme |
Examples |
|---|---|---|
| /r/ + /g/ | /ɣ/ | arga "also" meiurge "garbage, trash" |
| /r/ + /k/ | /x/ | urkamo "to split, to cut" murkambet "aqueduct" |
| /r/ + /t/ | /ʔ/ > /∅/ | gort "container" ennart "inserting" |
| /θ/ or /ts/ | ennarto "to insert" vertuk "healer" | |
| /r/ + /d/ | /ð/ or /dz/ | tordaski "helm-changing; (figuratively) a boring but necessary task" murdo "to water" |
| /r/ + /f/ | /h/ | farfa "flatbread" ollerfa "onlooker" |
| /r/ + /z/ | /s/ > /ʂ/ | irzevet "period between winter and spring" asmurzu "religious offering" |
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u | |
| Mid | ɛ | ɔ | |
| Open | a |