The Lady of Fall

From the bards of the United Empire of Ozur comes the tale of the Lady of Fall, said to live somewhere in the Sur Remar Forest.

The Lady of Fall

Down in the forest deep,
In dark fens where black things sleep,
Beyond the last of the marked stones,
Loves a lady, fair and alone.
She moves from tree to tree without sound,
Yet her voice in your head does pound.
When she looks at you with her lidless eyes,
She takes your soul and your body dies,
She twists your form to be her thrall,
Until silence befalls us all.

Thus is the tale of the Lady of Fall.

Mountain Dwarvish Phonology

Mountain Dwarvish

Pulmonic Consonants	Bi- labial	Labio- dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal	Other
Plosive	p “p” b “b”		t “t” d “d”		c “ky” Ɉ “gy”	k “k” g “g”
Palatalized Plosive	pj “py” bj “by”		tj “ty” dj “dy”
Nasal	m “m”		n “n”		ɲ “ny”
Palatalized Nasal	mj “my”
Trill			r “rr”
Fricative		f “f” v“v”	Ɵ “tt” ð “dd” s “s” z “z”	ʃ “ss” ʒ “zz”		x~ɣ “x”	h “h”
Palatalized Fricative		fj “fy” vj “vy”	sj “sy” zj “zy”				hj “hy”
Lateral Fricative			(ɬ) “ll”
Approximate			(ɹ) ‘r’		j “y”
Lateral Approximate			l “l, r, ll”
Affricates
Non-Palatal			tʃ “q” dʒ “j”	tɬ “tl”
Palatal			tʃj “qy” dʒj “jy”

Vowels	Front	Central	Back
High	i “i”	ɨ “ï”	u “u”
Middle	e “e”	ǝ “ë”	o “o”
Low	ɛ “ea” æ “ae”	a “a”
Diphthongs	oi “oy” ai “ay”

Syllable Structure:

(C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)

ex. strondl

No gemination in allowed in Mountain Dwarvish, though it was allowed in proto-dwarvish.
This has led to the creation of several new phonemes, which can be seen below.
Always resistant to change, however, Mountain Dwarvish writes the words the same as in
proto-dwarvish.

Palatalized consonants before /i/ and /e/.  For /m/, before /ɨ/, as /ɨ/ comes from a break with *i

*i > ɨ /m_

ɨ/_#

else  > i

*ae> æ

*ea> ɛ

*s> ʃ/s_

else >s

*z> ʒ/z_

else >z

*t> Ɵ/t_

else >t

*d> ð/d_

else >d

*n> ɲ/_i

ɲ/_e

else >n

*ǝ> Ø/C1_C1

Ø/_#

Proto-Dwarvish Phonology

Proto-Dwarvish

Pulmonic Consonants	Bi- labial	Labio- dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal	Other
Plosive	p “p” b “b”		t “t” d “d”		k “k” g “g”
Nasal	m “m”		n “n”
Trill			r “rr”
Fricative		f “f” v“v”	s “s” z “z”		x~ɣ “x”	h “h”
Lateral Fricative			ɬ “ll”
Approximate			ɹ “r”	j “y”
Lateral Approximate			l “l”
Affricates
Non-Palatal			tʃ “q” dʒ “j”

Vowels	Front	Central	Back
High	i “i”		u “u”
Middle	e “e”	ǝ “ë”	o “o”
Low		a “a”
Diphthongs	oi “oy” ai “ay” ae “ae” ea “ea”