Eldesh
The languages of the Elves, notably originating in their homeland to the north this is perhaps the oldest spoken language in the world. Holding few deviations since its inception before even the Cultured Era, this is generally used in scholarly texts and used in inscriptions. The language itself does not hold well among the tongue's of man, dwarf, and halfling as it is cumbersome and many words can hold different meaning depending on the context, placement, and situation. It is notable for lacking any tense due to the unique nature of the elfish perception of time.
Geographical Distribution
Found primarily in the lands beyond, city state of Dol'hasmen'belorukas, and in places of learning across the lands.
Morphology
Each word is composed of many segments, each segment is a three letter phrase that holds many different meanings. When these segments are combined new words, or components are made, with affecting the importance and meaning of the word.
When composing a complex thought or phrase the ' is used to seperate it, allowing for a word to show relation between components without taking away the subtle meaning of a component.
For Proper Nouns a header is used, this header is a single segment meant to act as a form of Moniker or informative piece of information that allows the one composing the full word to better explain relation or add something descriptive to the rest of the word.
Tenses
Tense does not exist in this language as it was spoken among the immortal elves for many years before they met more short lived races southeast of their great cities. As a sidenote they also do not denote possession, something that the elves of Oruktuul had to add in their own offshoot of this ancient language when settling their new lands.
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