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Lexicon:Modern/Eldspraecha

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Eldspraecha
Stage Modern CLT
Pronunciation /ˈeld.spɾaɪ.xa/
Part of speech Noun
Etymology eld- + Spraecha
Related words Spraecha, Pactspraecha

Eldspraecha — the elder speech; the oldest form of the language, as the survivors wrote it down.

Notes

What scholars call the first layer of the tongue. Nobody speaks it. Its makers called it by a name meaning the rotted-brain tongue, each in whatever language they spoke, and the joke in it is nine centuries past recovery.