Editing LetsBuild5e:Languages (section)

==Elvish==

This is the language of the nation of Giel-Tanierolla which hugs the shores of the Inner Sea to the north of Axalvo. It is part of a larger family of elvish tongues; the dark elves speak a different dialect to the northerners.

Elvish names consist of a personal name given at birth, plus a family name which is inherited from one's parents, but which may be changed upon marriage or other major change of allegiance. (Decision: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19342866#post19342866])

Elvish is an almost entirely gender-neutral language. Terms like 'parent' are preferred to those like 'mother', and where the latter exist at all, they are regarded as either improper or highly technical. Elvish has many words for 'sibling', 'cousin', and 'uncle/aunt', since the long lives and straggling generations of elves mean it is possible to be older than one's own great-grandparents' younger siblings. Consequently there are terms to distinguish how much time separates the birth of relatives, as well as degrees of blood. An elf does not find it surprising to be the same age as their 'contemporary great-uncle/aunt', but much younger than their 'two centuries older sister', for example. Equally, elven family units often involve proxy parental relationships such as wetnursing and fostering, and terminology exists to describe these relationships and the virtual siblinghoods that they engender. (Discussion: [http://forum.rpg.net/showthread.php?761590-D-amp-D-5e-Let-s-build-a-setting!&p=19490706#post19490706])

This language is pronounced with main stress on the antepenultimate syllable, moving forward in words with fewer than three syllables. All double consonants are geminated - that is, they are given a longer pronunciation than single instances of the same consonant. ''E'' is the vowel in the English ''dress''; ''ë'' is a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwa schwa]; and ''é'' is the vowel in the English ''face''.

::''Umren tiennal miento lierlio corrariné. Lierril orbë ri en tanté fitoéwé vayerré vorroé piorrië. Umarë vehellë lierloé marroé serronzotië.''