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| 2 | + | type: language | |
| 3 | + | name: Bezhal | |
| 4 | + | family: Elvish | |
| 5 | + | status: developing | |
| 6 | + | tags: [Areshnaat, conlang, fiction] | |
| 7 | + | updated: 2026-10-12 | |
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| 10 | + | # Bezhal | |
| 11 | + | ||
| 12 | + | The drow tongue. Only the writing system is recorded so far; the naming | |
| 13 | + | framework has not been written. | |
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| 15 | + | ## Writing | |
| 16 | + | ||
| 17 | + | The drow are the one people who write in a hand they did not inherit. Full | |
| 18 | + | account in [[One Root, Five Hands]]. | |
| 19 | + | ||
| 20 | + | - **[canon]** The drow write elvish words in the **dwarven** hand, with adjustments for spelling. | |
| 21 | + | - **[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. | |
| 22 | + | - **[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. | |
| 23 | + | - **[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. | |
| 24 | + | - **[open]** Whether the result reads as a dialect of the dwarven hand or as a sixth hand in its own right. |