The Celephais Campaign
Languages

Current Languages

Aleris (elvish)

Commonly called "Elvish" this is the ancient and little changing language of the Elves. Tonal, scribed in the cursive Elven script.

Arcadian (common)

Language of the Arcadian League (Common for this campaign). Descended from Sarnan, it resembles Greek and scribed in the common (Sarnan) script.

Atlan (southern common)

The common language of the legendary lands south of the equator (Atlantis). Scribed in the expansive Enochian (Celestial) script

Cathayan

Common Language of the far East, similiar to Mandarian Chinese. Scribed with Ideograms.

Hyperborean (northern common)

Language of the North (Common for the Northern lands), scribed in Dwarven Runes.

Inquanok

Language of Oriab and the southern islands. Not related in any way to the Sarnath family, it is written in strage coral looking glyphs.

Keltos

Language of XX, scribed in Common.

Khuzdul (dwarven)

Commonaly called "Dwarven". Resembles German in sound and grammer. Scribed in Runes.

Lomarian

Language of the Lomar, distinct from Hyperborean. A simplified, coherent and logical derivitive of Polarian that can be written using Elvish.

Mnar

Language of Bnazai desert. Resembles Farsi, scribed in the common (Sarnan) script.

Nargai (western common)

Language of barbarians of the Nomad lands of the West. It's gutteral and clipped sounds have earned it the nickname "dog tongue" in the civilized lands.

Ooth-Nargai (old eastern common)

Original language of Eastern lands and cities, most cities are overrun and Orcish is spoken but human and elven tribes speak Ooth still.

Orrish (orcish)

Language of Mhor, the lands of the near East. The common tongue of the great Ork nations of the East and used by other races as well. Scribed using Runes.

Tcho

Language of the Tcho people of Leng, derived from Infernal and scribed in the same.

 

Occult, Obsolete or Dead Languages

Abyssal

Hardly a langauge, more of a way to communicate to the forlorn and insane dwellers in the darkness between the stars. Written in whatever script the user is familier with but typically the script will be Infernal or Common. A script called Abyssal is rumored to exist - a most dangerous script.

Celestial

Language of the Spirits of Light. Scribed in Enochian.

Draconic

Human variant of H'stha, the ancient tongue of the Serpent Men of Valusia. Written with "serpentine" glyphs.

Druidic

Secret language of the Druids, distant ancestor of Keltos

Infernal

Langauge of the Fallen. Easy to learn, very difficult to master. Written with a cursive script.

Mangani

"Ape" Language of the jungles.

Sarnan

Language of the Empire of Sarnath, six centuries dead. Mnarian to the west and Arcadian in the East are descended from this language. The script of Sarnan is the "Common" script by many other languages.

Polarian

Ancestor of Lomar. Written with groups of dots either engraved on stone or embossed on metal, the dots are drilled and aranged to signify meaning.

Unused and Irrelvent Langues

Elemental Languages (Aquan, Auran, Ignen, Terran)

Elementals of the Celephais campaign are formed and unformed from ambient magic and the will of their conurer. They have no known society of culture, so these languages are not available in this campaign

More later...