Dwarven
Origin
Once, in a far bygone age the first dwarves, in all their pride and ambition, challenged the god Vassas when he came before them to warn against their arrogance. As punishment they were not erased from existence, but rather the god of time wiped away all traces of their creations and knowledge, including that of any spoken and written language. Cast out of the domain of their patron, the dwarves were left to live in the realm of men, now as mortals themselves.
Several hundred years passed before this race started to use a common tongue among all the different clans and offshoots. It was when Helmic Runemace, the first of the great dwarven kings who started a war to unite the dwarvish clans under him, that this language came about. Because of the need for unity and ease of communication among his people, Runemace decreed that the language of his clan was to become the common tongue and developed a system of writing within his kingdom.
Dwarvish changed somewhat as time passed, influenced by the speech of other clans as their kings ruled, along with dialects forming among different regions.
Description
Dwarvish is spoken as a guttural language, the native speaker naturally using the hard pronunciation of the characters over the soft and rolling their letters. However within the speech there is actually a flowing beauty behind it due to the number usage of verbs, which keeps conversation unbroken.
Those speaking dwarvish will often gesture when doing do so in order to supplement their conversations, pointing or gesturing to things they’re talking about. This is a habit that developed underground in the mines and forges as a way to both conserve oxygen in the small tunnels that they construct, and keep communication between one another in the uproar of a forge.
The dwarves use their own set of runes for writing letters and numbers, rather than sharing the one used for common. Bearing a normally basic appearance of a set of angular and curved runes, they are often accentuated by both smiths and scholars when inscribed on their works.
Basic Phrases
- Ni Miverkeh Tekah. (Hello. | I greet you.)
- Ett Muzemim. (You're welcome. | You are welcome.)
- Et Temic. (Thank you.)
- Et Somka? (How are you?)
- Eni Hitenliut. (Sorry. | My apologies.)
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