Srroskku
Srroskku is the native language of the Silver Dwarves, spoken mainly in the Green Valley. It preserves many archaic terms connected to Silver Dwarven settlement patterns, sacred geography, social ranks, and myth.
Phonology¶
Current wiki sources preserve only limited phonological notes. Chroniclers describe Srroskku as gruff or angry to many outsiders, though specialists argue that its dialects remain surprisingly intelligible across distant Silver Dwarven communities.
Dictionary¶
| Srroskku | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Itll | small |
| Murr | human |
| To | the |
| Ulf | of |
| Ufto | of the |
| Un | and |
| Unto | and the |
| Ton | plural marker |
| Nr | new |
| Kheim | empire |
| Ri | principality |
| Mog | man |
| Ath | village |
| Bi | city |
| Borr | great city or metropolis |
| Srro | silver |
| Rum | kingdom |
| Gerr | mountain |
| Born | bone |
| Ba | farm |
| Gor | green |
| Hoff | port |
| Komakk | to emerge, reveal, or begin |
| A | river or stream |
| Senn | iron |
| Skki | shine |
| Di | active verb marker |
| Ti | past-tense marker |
| Taga | to carve |
| Dal | valley |
| Kall | horse |
| Ku | cow |
| Kinn | sheep |
| Lant | land |
| Haej | hill |
| Barr | blue |
| Vedd | knowledge or wisdom |
| Tunn | tower |
| Ninn | mine |
| Meloddia | Melodias |
| Pi | belonging indicator |
| Rekkai | dragon |
| Bru | brown |
| Konun | royal |
| Fat | beautiful |
| Pukk | demon |
| Mija | center |
| Fraja | queen |
| Aus | east |
| Set | west |
| Stein | stone |
| Norr | north |
| Sorr | south |
| Jorr | alcohol in general |
| Gann | walk or trek |
| Skko | forest |
Chronicler's Note¶
"While Srroskku to many races sounds like a gruff and angry language, there are a small group of chroniclers such as myself that find the beauty in such an ancient language. The most surprising thing to me is the amount of intelligibility between the different dialects, with Srroskku from the Pjershyan Mountains to the Green Valley able to understand each other nearly flawlessly. This is possibly due to the lack of foreign influence on the language, since the Galmar dialect deviates the most from the standard Anvindr dialect. Need to further research this topic." - S
See also: Silver Dwarves, Green Valley, Srrohebrikk, and The Emergence.