Planet:Koldenwelt/Old/Talmyr/Language

"The language? Well. It's not as fancy nor as fine sounding as your Common Tongue or Elf languages, but then again, we don't want to be as fancy or as fine as you easterners. We live in Talmyr. It's not for the faint."

Dalmiric is the national language of the, and the most spoken language in the region of Talmyr in northwestern Koldenwelt. Modern Dalmiric is a culmination of innumerable languages of Deiwes, Kelodhrosi and Theriocephalic origin that were once situated in ancient Talmyr in the time leading to the fourth millennium BNA. Among other suggested ancestors of the Dalmiric Language are also Old Tongue, Adamren and Dwarven. Dalmiric is mostly considered a trade language to the rest of Koldenwelt, and is spoken as a secondary language in all regions of the world.

Due to the plethora of races that exist within Talmyr, Dalmiric has no singular writing system, although the one utilised by the Dalmiric Men is the most commonly used within the Kingdom. The government of the Dalmiric Kingdom recognises over 30 writing systems for Dalmiric, all which stem from the native writing systems of other races.

Dalmiric Writing System
The most popular official writing system, known as the qx.ċl ṭlmrqn.x.q (qəxɯ̽ċ’l ṭəlmyrq’nɯ̽xɯ̽q as written in the Common Script) is an abjad of primarily human origin that is used in virtually all written purpose within the Dalmiric Kingdom. It is used popularly within the Kingdom due to its relative ease to read; due to the several regional dialects of Dalmiric, the creation of the qəxɯ̽ċ’l ṭəlmyrq’nɯ̽xɯ̽q simplified the difference of the dialects to create a more common ground.

The qəxɯ̽ċ’l ṭəlmyrq’nɯ̽xɯ̽q defines 18 consonants; b, ċ, d, f, g, h, k, l, m, n, q, r, s, t, ṭ, v, x and z. Across all writing systems, vowels would appear to lack clarity - as there is no written vowels within the common abjad, the Common Script was devised to implement these vowels. The Common Script possesses 5 vowels; a, ’, ə, ɯ̽, and y. The various pronunciations given to these vowels make it somewhat impossible to define a structured phonology to Dalmiric, and hence these vowels symbolise common yet indistinct sounds.