The drow tongue. Only the writing system is recorded so far; the naming framework has not been written.
Writing
The drow are the one people who write in a hand they did not inherit. Full account in One Root, Five Hands.
- [canon] The drow write elvish words in the dwarven hand, with adjustments for spelling.
- [canon] They are elf-lineage, so by descent they should carry the elf script. They do not. Every other people in Areshnaat uses the hand it inherited.
- [open] How and when the drow took up a dwarven hand. Nothing in the canon fixes it, and it is the most interesting unexplained thing in the writing material.
- [open] What the spelling adjustments are. The dwarven hand is a consonant baseline that demotes vowels to marks, while elvish writes vowels as full letters, so carrying elvish words in it has to solve that mismatch somehow.
- [open] Whether the result reads as a dialect of the dwarven hand or as a sixth hand in its own right.