Okrand's Klingon, Peterson's Dothraki, Rowling's Parseltongue, and of course Tolkien's Quenya and Sindarin, or Khuzdul in LOTR... These are some of the “made-up” languages that are now part of the real world; these creative minds elaborated on and entertained us for decades.

And I hope to do the same with my made-up languages created for SCO.

The Song in Elfonics:

Tœn m'ai ær

Tane m'ai fœ

Welum Sœl Nær

X2

M'ai o-lœr

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Even without translation, the structure reads as liturgical. Short lines. Repetition. Vowel-forward phonemes. Soft fricatives and open sounds.

This is not a language meant to be barked or shouted...it’s meant to be sung, breathed, carried.

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Phonetically:

œ / æ / œl / nær → ancient, rounded, breath-heavy vowels

m’ai repeating → collective action, we rather than I

Welum Sœl Nær → feels like a culmination phrase, not a sentence

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The Translation:

Take all of their pain

Give all of them hope

Grace of God(good), we achieve

x2

Fail them not

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Inspired by: The film Arrival's Alien Language, Indigenous Canadian/Celtic/Nordic heritage, and my own imagination.