Elkar

A rough-sounding language born in Elsee. Spread most predominantly by Orcs, Giants, and Minotaurs throughout the mountains, bled down through the rest of the continent.

Writing System

Came well after the language itself, features lots of slashing looking marks and curves, calligraphy is considered an art

Geographical Distribution

Spoken mostly in the Blackhall Mountains of Elsee, originating with orcs and spreading to trolls, giants, dwarves, kobolds, which spread it to everything else. I think it was the humans and maybe dwarves that carried it over to Noress.

Phonology

Rough throaty sounds, not much with front of mouth or teeth, vocal tones are usually flat and choppy, and most vowel sounds are "swallowed" in the back of the mouth

Morphology

Affixes are uncommon and are mostly used to indicate relativity to time or distance

Syntax

Verb Object Subject, frequently dropping off the subject entirely

Phonetics

Vowels are strung together more than consonants, and single-syllable words are prone to being vowel-first and a single percussive sound

Tenses

Generally present tense, except stories which have a tense of their own that refers not to the past, necessarily, but to an alternate (think past-perfect)

Sentence Structure

VOS, can often be abbreviated by removing subject entirely and using gestures or body language instead

Adjective Order

Adjective then noun, adverb then verb