Fairy Common

Base Common Fey Languages acceptable hi adult okita adventure secona adventurer secokita afraid kowai agile zeyota alcohol silee all beleb ally re'ray also tambi although anki And V' anger, wrath hanaka angry hana animal silumni any quier arm mieme armed im lor armor tayga arrow hoozi as kemoo assassin tzay'seno aunt tia back (of torso) olav bad ukktae balance mayzibro bandit gonova bartender carmaray battle ray beautiful yoofa beer biriya behind (preposition) meleh big mil blade chilev border gantera boring rido both stabos boy yeleco bow proa brave ement bright vehante brother mookt bush ilmi But eval by, near ceryad chest, container nedomik chest, torso toorsti child mirfae comfortable namodo correct hikan Council Mithoseyna cousin vanrimo Damn! kstso! danger kutehnah dangerous kutenalah dark lu darkness luseh daughter javat day al defense hegensa dew Tal drink berstot dwarf, dwarven Karanano eight shmoey either za oo za Elf (sing.), Elven Nanshi elven (language) Nanshilae ever laysuli exciting rigocioni expensive yookaro Fall tu family mespahia fast moohato father fenmaer field Nanpo fire kut fish quithay five mayshi flower se food ela for bespara forest kel forsaken Karnado four bahni friend vairie friendly havery from M' fruit mir full of Sh' full Sha gem oven vorai girl javadela god, deity heemi good faele goodbye gootay gratitude, thanks ninfa grove ke hair sayra half hitziya hand miemin happy kwaina haven, safe place kelnath (inside area) haven, safe place kelnos (outside area of fields) haven, safe place kelsha'l (outside area of forest) He/She Loo/Lah healthy nalelafritah heart Chay her loahee here vakel hers sholoahee Hey! ey! hill/mountain hurini him loeha his/its holohana house of kral' house kal How Ayt human doma hungry elaf husband ohevitho I Eniya if in in B' inner binay in the B'Le' journey lensoay keep (small castle) cho'ilmikvonel Land of... T' (short for Tan') last oharanay leaf min left (direction) smolti less pihota little ("a little bit") kotzeti long erohay Look out! kut! magic fer magical fernahay man fen maybe/perhaps laylai me ni mine sholiay missing oevardi moon luvese more oday most yotiray mother aymay mother-in-law aym'ohevithi much/many hormay neice javat'oktay (daughter of brother) neice javat'oktani (daughter of sister) neither gem li nephew yelec'oktay (son of brother) nephew yelec'oktani (son of sister) never nayho new sear next leebay night Ul nine tayshi No ho Nor honi now aho Oh no! ho ai! OK! sugoi! old satuku on olay once poamichi on the olayla one hodi Or ona Orc vloky Order Sederay ours sholay out hotzi outer hotzya passage aekino pleasant, nice pelkel poor hokelay potion seiel powerful veli'mie'lovor quickly mohiray raven orayvi rich kelsalisuli right (direction) yemolay road, i.e. way Der'eki of passage safe kelmogay Sea Niri season zaminay seven hevi Shaahesk hebifen shadow tzeluli shield megani short ketli sick faeli sister fektay six shashi slow loti slowly lotitay small il smart kokomay snow shlegay so casi something medovay son ilfen song salif spice zonya Spring le star vese stranger garthot stronghold, castle cho'ilmikvonel stupid topayshi Summer la sun veli sword mie'lorvor tavern, inn favay teacher/mentor meray ten esri than kemoo thank you dotli, dotla shoila (my gratitude) that, which D' the Le' theirs saveetay them loma there shoma They Loma thing davar thirsty elef this za three loashi time silualbe tired aiyefo tourist tayar town, -ton trade (noun) zvidoray traveler solensoa tree mi two shotay ugly moocoah uncle fenond undead moteran D'lulec us lenay very cho wall kayta watcher, guard shemayna water el way Dera We Nethnay weak holati weapon lor Welcome Pelay What nani When Mitsu Where Eyeh whether ayloh while b'zemanay' _____ Who daray Why quandi wife feileshan'ohevitay wind kazayro wine seileel Winter uk with neal woman feileshan wonderful honto wrong zenzen Yes hi yet bes you (pl) tem you ta young toera yours (pl) shoma yours shom

Work in Progress

I don't have team approval on this so don't use this IG yet please. Instead of making 18 fey subrace languages fairy common is a simple answer to the question of what language fey speak. There are still more languages than there are likely available INT bonus points to go around but the priority of a full blood fey's language capacity will probably be ordered like:

• 1.) Their racial language (sprite, nymph, etc)

• 2.) Fairy Common (allowing them to speak to all other fey. Titanian & Avlissian. Seelie & Unseelie)

• 3.) Sylvan (Avlissian type is spoke by Centaurs, Druids and will act as "common" in wild areas among all sentients in residence, Titanian type is spoke by the Titanian court)

• 4.) Nanshilae

• 5.) Common

This is going to alienate the fey from the wider world and while it makes sense & I don't see a way around it I don't see this as being necessarily a problem. In mythology they are always portrayed as a separate society anyway. Maybe we should build on that instead of making them more like really tiny elves.

Base language

The fey races of Avlis were created by a god named O'Ma. In his mortal life, he was a human who got instructions from the fairy goddess Titania on how to make fey races when he became a god.

and so on...

Conjunctions:

• And V'
• But eval
• Or oo
• Nor nui
• yet bes
• so cas
• for besvel

Colors:

• black cueroy
• blue ayoy
• green madoree
• orange tepokiro
• red ahkai
• white sheeroy
• brown chairo
• purple murskee
• yellow keeyoy

Expressions:

Excuse me sumimasa!

Goodbye gootay!

Good day faele al!

Good night al ul!

Hello!/Well met! ganki!

Good day! (Hello!) al ganki!

Good evening/ Good night! ul ganki!

Of course, certainly majiday!

Thank you ninfa!

You're welcome Bevodi!

I'm sorry namo

I speak sylvan. ni dobra fae.

Do you speak Sylvan? Dobra ta fae?

I do not speak sylvan, but I want to learn. ni li doober fae, eval ni retzelath meray.

Verbs:

to attack

to leave

Grammar

For Example:

Singular

Plural

Single/Plural:

Verbs

Present Indicative tense

Singular verbs: '

Plural verbs: '

Present Perfect tense:

In the present perfect tense, '

Future imperfect:

'

Converting a verb to a noun:

The verb "to be".

'

Pronouns

1st Person: '

2nd Person: '

3rd Person: '

Indirect pronouns:

'

Indirect pronouns with prepositions:

'

Showing possession:

Misc Notes

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Orleron wrote: O'Ma and Titania have different versions of sylvan, with O'Ma's version being derived from the same spirit language as elven, and thus related about as closely as Sanskrit and German, which are both Indo-European languages.

Each race within both fairy races has its own dialect of sylvan, which is regarded as a separate language, and is about as close as Italian and Spanish.

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The relation as I see it then for spirit languages follows:

|--Avlissian Spirit Language (dead and no longer known)
 |--Nanshilae (Nanshi & Magya are about as related as German and English)
 |--Magya (The language of arcane magic all wizards learn)
      |---Avlissian Sylvan(built from Nanshilae and Titanian Sylvan)
             |---Sprite
             |---Nymph
             |---Sylph
             |---Dryad
             |---Nixie, etc
             |---Fairy Common (spoken by both Titanian & O'ma fey)
 

I've based much of what I've done here on the page on Nanshilae because I thought that would be appropriate for what this started as. However this language would in all likelihood have migrated more and more to the Titanian influence since it would have to accommodate the Titanians and since the Sylvan that the avlissian fey are likely using to communicate with non-fey races is also in part built from Titanian. I will try to square the grammar and make it blend 50/50 with nanshilae where possible. I've kind of de-hebrewed the nanshi here and added more suffixed vowels like -ay or -i to make it more sing-song on the assumption that the hebraic influence on nanshi is essentially the spirit language since the influence from Titania will probably be cobbled together from other works of fiction regarding Titania/Fey/Sylvan. Also, there is a fair bit of Japanese and Spanish folded into the word list. Finally I found a terse word list of actual "sylvan" so that is where everything else comes from. I expect to not only have to alter the grammar heavily but change the word list considerably, removing much of the present word list and instead of basing the alterations on the root nanshilae from japanese & spanish base it instead off the titanian sylvan language. Anyone is welcome to work on these of course.

Some nonsense sounds from the pixie voice set as found in a google search with my guesses on what they mean. Seems a good phonetic template to me for the style to shoot for:

Fliji yuma boogba! ---You will regret that!

Migio falafay - iga! --- You will die - here!

Soolna? -- Yes?

Wimi, ninfa! -- Oh, thank you!

Namo...fima ni. -- No...I can't.

I really think that as a matter of phonetic style this small list of phrases is something exceptionally appropriate to aspire to emulating. Expect to see these folded into this language somehow. Since this will likely be the "face" of the language of fey on avlis I'm all about making it as stylistically appropriate as possible.