The Name of a Language : Arezhen Tasach

After a few hours of brainstorming, Eldawnian now has a proper name for itself. The root syllable 'ta' is related to the idea of communication or throughways. 'tals' is the abstract idea of communication, 'tas' refers to language and 'tan' refers to physical passages or pathways. Additionally 'tain' refers to geographical passages, like valleys or natural tunnels but let's not get into that.

'tas' is therefore close to our equivalent of language, and in most circumstances, would have been sufficient for the inhabitants of Eldawn to refer to Eldawnian. If they wanted to be more specific, they could have gone with 'tas vesach', which simply means The language of humans. This was to distinguish their language from 'tas welach' or The language of souls which was spoken by natives of the second plane and of course, 'tas zelach' or The language of spirits which was the language of the great spirits in the first plane. The language of humans is the only conventional one that we can understand, since the rest do not rely on the same vocal apparatus that humans in the third, material plane employ.

At this point in Eldawn's history, all of humanity speaks a unified language, so there are no names for other languages of humans. Our languages only distinguish what we feel is necessary to distinguish after all.

Of course, for our purposes and living in a real world of a multitude of languages, it would be quite hard to refer to any one language as 'tas vesach'. Thankfully there's already a name for this world, so for our reference, we would simply call my fictional language, 'tas Eldawach'.

The word for script will be 'üdetas', which is a combination of language and physical body. At the moment there are several scripts that I have in mind. The first to develop in Eldawn's internal history is logographic designed by the elves, then a phonetic script was developed in Eleris shortly after. I haven't given too much thought to the logographic script yet, I probably won't for awhile because it isn't too high up on the priority list at the moment. The phonetic script is the script that I have explained in a previous post, containing 24 consonant letters and 6 vowel letters. The phonetic script is specifically referred to as 'üdetacas', or The forward/progressive script. 'üdetacas' eventually comes to be used throughout the Radiant Society, and to some extent among The Filial as well, mostly to aid learning the logographic script.