Varyan

Varyan (Varyelar) is a High-Elven language that developed on the isle of Varyenon. The namesake of the language are the Varyans (sing. "Varya", plur. "Varyar"), the High-Elven people that migrated to the island. Although its beginnings were humble on such a small island, it eventually became the language of the intelligentsia across the Western world with the establishment of the Dragon Empire.

Varyan evolved from Proto-High-Elven, spoken on the continent thousands of years prior. High-Elves are one of two cultural-linguistic groups among all elves, the other group being the Free-Elves - the cultural-linguistic relation between these groups is quite distant, seemingly traceable back to the Ancients.

Varyan is set in a fictional world where all people, cultures, religions, and languages derive from a common ancestor, refered to as The Ancients. The Ancients are identical in every way to the real-world Proto-Indo-Europeans, other than their existing in this fictional world.