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#REDIRECT [[Elvish language]]
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The '''Elvish language''' is one of the [[language]]s the player will come across. This language is used in-game for the names of the universe, continents, rivers, elvish governments and settlements, [[Elf|elves]], [[artifact]]s and [[engraving]]s. However, as of yet, it lacks everything necessary for proper conversation, like grammar or personal pronouns.
 
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==Alphabet==
 
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The letters of the Elvish alphabet are:
 
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|bgcolor="#EFEFEF" align="center" colspan="34" | '''Majuscule forms''' (also called '''uppercase''' or '''capital letters''')
 
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Of these 34 letters, 13 are vowels (A, E, È, É, I, Ì, Í, O, Ò, Ó, U, Ù, Ú); the 21 others are consonants.
 
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The letters J and X of the [[wikipedia:ISO basic Latin alphabet|ISO basic Latin alphabet]] do not occur in the Elvish alphabet.
 
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===Letter frequency===
 
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|1 || A || 1762 || 17.05%
 
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|2 || B || 133 || 1.29%
 
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|21 || P || 113 || 1.09%
 
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|22 || QU || 47 || 0.45%
 
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|24 || S || 153 || 1.48%
 
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==Graphemics==
 
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* [[wikipedia:digraph (orthography)|Digraphs]] ''th'' and ''qu''.
 
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** ''h'' only occurs in the digraph ''th''.
 
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* Only allowed consonant cluster ''sl''.
 
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* Elvish has no [[wikipedia:diphthongs|diphthongs]].
 
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* Possible [[wikipedia: syllable structure|syllable structure]] (C)(C)V
 
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===Diacritic meaning===
 
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The Elvish language has two diacritics ([[wikipedia:Grave accent|◌̀]] and [[wikipedia:Acute accent|◌́]]) used on four vowels (''e'', ''i'', ''o'', and ''u''). Its possible that this is just a simpler version of the Dwarven language's system, with just high and low pitch. It's also possible that the two diacritics represent short and overlong vowels, and no diacritic represents a long vowel.
 
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It's interesting that ''A'' stands out as the one vowel with no diacritics, while in Dwarven it's the one with the most.
 
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==Vocabulary==
 
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{{main|Template:Noun dictionary|l1=Noun dictionary|Template:Verb dictionary|l2=Verb dictionary|Template:Adjective dictionary|l3=Adjective dictionary|Template:Prefix dictionary|l4=Prefix dictionary}}
 
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The average word in the Elvish language is 4.993 letters long. The longest known words are ''thitathi'' ("admire"), ''thafatha'' ("battle"), ''riquethi'' ("chop"), ''lethathi'' ("glum"), ''thavetha'' ("mauve"), ''thethéfa'' ("meal" (paste)), ''cèthutha'' ("mine"), ''tithithi'' ("pepper"), ''quathari'' ("play" (perform)), ''thawathi'' ("post"), ''naquithe'' ("rabble"), ''thatheci'' ("rustic"), ''nethitha'' ("squid"), ''fithithe'' ("stretch"), ''thanetha'' ("ungodly"), and ''tholatho'' ("waste").
 
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The average word has 2.556 syllables. Words either have two or three syllables.
 
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{{Language}}
 
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[[Category:Language]]
 
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[[ru:Elvish language]]
 

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