Elvarri

Elvarri
elvariu / elvarriu
Pronunciation	[elˈvarju]
Created by	Jukethatbox
Date	2026
Setting	Hamanna
Native to	Elvod
Ethnicity	Elvars
Language family	Luxelvic North Luxelvic Elvarri
Early forms	Proto-Luxelvic Proto-North Luxelvic
Writing system	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