Standard Yssian (ɪsiɑn*)
Standardized with the consolidation of Ys into the Tzolgarin Kingdom in the first century of the Qh'énnish Ascension. The Yssian culture has always prized academic study and literacy, the Tzolgarin Dynasts were tyrants who, raised in that environment, also held those values and lead to the formalization of the standard dialect of Ys. Whereas numerous disparate Yssian dialects and related languages existed throughout the realm, the Tzolgarin Dynasts enforced Standard Yssian as the language of the royal court, the legal system, and the language of academic instruction.
*Yssian is pronounced emically, /ɪsiɑn/; in Qh'énnish and Raachern, the vowel-Y is rendered /ʲɪ/ hence /ʲɪsiɑn/.
Root Languages
Spoken by
Drennón Tzolagar, Tzolgarin Dynast
Tzolgarin Dynast
by
包德強
Drennón Tzolagar I was the warlord that conquered and unified all of Ys under one banner in the first century of the Qh'énnish Ascension. The genitive form of his family name (Tzolagar → Tzolgarin) to refer to the familial line that would rule his new kingdom ("the Tzolgarin Kingdom of Ys") well into the fifth century. A weak-looking, frail and aged man, Drennón Tzolagar was most know for the huge ruby that is affixed in his head where his left eye once was.
