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To start using Elven in game type -el console command for Mith's Virtual Console.

Elven (or sometimes, by Elves, called True Tongue) is the language of all surface Elves. Its script is known as Espruar.

The Elven language is closely related to Xanalress, the language of the drow. Compare the difference between Xanalress and Elven to Americans and Englishmen in the real world: Americans left Great Britain about 400 years ago. There was not much communication between the two countries with the Atlantic Ocean between them, therefore the languages went their own way, resulting in the differences between American and English as we know it. If an American goes to London, he can still understand British English, but they have words and phrases that do not match with what he has learned and vice versa. For Drow and Elves this is the same, but with much more differences, since the American-British separation is only from 400 years, while the Xanalress-Elven seperation goes back thousands of years. Each however would still understand the basic meaning of the sentence the other is speaking. Note that this is not exactly the same as the Italian-Latin seperation used as an example in Draconic: Italians can not automatically read Latin, nor could a Roman understand much of what an Italian is saying. Elves and Drow understand eachother quite well.

On Arelith this language is known by:

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Espruar, the written runic Elven language

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-Elven (or sometimes, by Elves, called True Tongue, or, by Drow, called High Tongue) is the language of all Elves, including Drow. Its script is known as Espruar.
+Elven (or sometimes, by Elves, called True Tongue) is the language of all surface Elves. Its script is known as Espruar.
-Elves and Drow on Arelith both know Elven, but it might not hurt to keep into consideration the difference in the these two types of Elven, depending on the situation:
-Surface Elves know the language as it is, Elven. Not much to add there.
-Drow, on Arelith, also know Elven, but the Elven of Drow is the Elven from millenia ago, from when Drow and Elves were separated. Therefore it has changed from Elven as the surface Elves know it. However, the languages are still surprisingly much alike: in reality Drow and Elves speak the same language, though the dialects are different due to long separation.
-The type of Elven that Arelith Drow use is Xanalress (also called Drow). Xanalress is what Drow consider the High Tongue. It is blessed and pure in their eyes. That view is held because of the Drow consideration that they are above all others. On Arelith the Drow sometimes put in "[[Common Drow words|Drow words]]" in their sentences, rather than speaking Elven all the time, to give it an extra touch. But there is more to it: it is just not feasible to use the -el Elven at all times. In [[Udos Dro'Xun]] speaking in Common is speaking Xanalress since it is the Drow world. Outside the walls of Udos, when a Drow speaks Common it should be considered as true [[Common]] (or [[Undercommon]], when in Grond) and when a Drow speaks Elven, it should be considered as a Drow speaking Xanalress. (More info regarding this in [[Drow use of languages]])
-Compare the difference between Xanalress and Elven to Americans and Englishmen in the real world: Americans left Great Britain about 400 years ago. There was not much communication between the two countries with the Atlantic Ocean between them, therefore the languages went their own way, resulting in the differences between American and English as we know it. If an American goes to London, he can still understand British English, but they have words and phrases that do not match with what he has learned and vice versa. For Drow and Elves this is the same, but with much more differences, since the American-British separation is only from 400 years, while the Xanalress-Elven seperation goes back thousands of years. Each however would still understand the basic meaning of the sentence the other is speaking. Note that this is not exactly the same as the Italian-Latin seperation used as an example in [[Draconic]]: Italians can not automatically read Latin, nor could a Roman understand much of what an Italian is saying. Elves and Drow understand eachother quite well.
+The Elven language is closely related to Xanalress, the language of the drow. Compare the difference between Xanalress and Elven to Americans and Englishmen in the real world: Americans left Great Britain about 400 years ago. There was not much communication between the two countries with the Atlantic Ocean between them, therefore the languages went their own way, resulting in the differences between American and English as we know it. If an American goes to London, he can still understand British English, but they have words and phrases that do not match with what he has learned and vice versa. For Drow and Elves this is the same, but with much more differences, since the American-British separation is only from 400 years, while the Xanalress-Elven seperation goes back thousands of years. Each however would still understand the basic meaning of the sentence the other is speaking. Note that this is not exactly the same as the Italian-Latin seperation used as an example in Draconic: Italians can not automatically read Latin, nor could a Roman understand much of what an Italian is saying. Elves and Drow understand eachother quite well.
 On Arelith this language is known by:
-* [[Drow]]
 * [[Elf|Elves]]
 * [[Half-Elves]]