Thari

Tribal Languages of the Continent

The Thari Language at a Glance

The Thari language was envisioned as the most ancient language still in use on the main continent. If you imagine Roman as the dominant language in Britain, Thari is the native tongue. It is spoken by the tribal and barbaric folk.

The Earth equivalent of Thari is Irish Gaelic. If you'd like to invent some lines in Thari, you can either use Google Translate or create unique words using the examples as a guide.

The Thari language, while common among tribal folk throughout the Continent, has a great many dialects. Each of these has a local qualifier as a prefix to the language itself (i.e., Eastmarsh Thari, Almanna Thari, etc.), which is rated as a percentage of Inner Sea Thari, the most common form. That percentage represents the commonality of those dialects, and the ease with which outsiders may communicate.

Thari itself is primarily the now-dead Altish language, heavily seasoned with Quenya, the language of the high elves. As it has no formal written form, most longhand manuscripts tend to be written phonetically, meaning that a reader may be confronted with an unfamiliar regional dialect.

This is not to say, however, that no script exists. Thari, like Altish before it, is represented by Ogham runes, which uses a form of verbal ligatures. This makes it especially difficult for non-native speakers to read them, even if fully conversant in reading the runes themselves.

Geographical Distribution

Thari (in a goodly number of local dialects) is spoken across much of the Mainland. These are generally the native languages of their respective regions, but are slowly being supplemented or supplanted by the pidgin Eluthari (a mix of Thari and Eluric commonly used for commerce).

Root Language
Alkesh

Successor Languages

• Varanthari
• Eluthari

Spoken by

• Altorii
• Celt

Common Phrases

• Tá ocras orm.
  (I am hungry.)
• Cá fhad a thógfaidh sé sin?
  (How long will that take?)
• An féidir leat an bealach a thaispeáint dom?
  Can you show me the way?)

Script
Ogham Runes