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Drowic Classroom

Teacher: [Linn Scarlett]

Vendui d'anthe abbilen, ussta kaas zhah Linn Scarlett.
Hello my dear friends, my name is Linn Scarlett.

I'm going to teach Drowic to those who are interested. To do so, i would like to have a list of the students that are interested below.

I hope you all enjoy my lessons, for Drowic is a difficult yet beautifull language.

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Students:

[kichethered]
[windowframe]
[Kim_Lundin]
[Stoned Immaculate]
[Angel Dreamer]
[Sallywag]
[Donnie Darko]
[zeb]
[Tetiana]
[Davorah]
[lillithsatine]
[dragoncaptive]
[Sharkly17_Vamp]
[Nix]
[Lady Diamanta]
[polarnoid]
[Soul Dementia]
[Flight of the Butterfly]
[Oh__xDoctor Doctor!]
[Kurus_Dreaon]
[Dark Drow Lady]
[nightwulf]
[Aerin Weirynsra]
[Orey]
[Tormenta]
[Noexistantanymo] Xal usstan valm?
[DeadHead]
[Shainn]
[DarkWraith]
[Jir'tan'ol]
[Opened my veins for nothing]
[calamaethor]
[Valient Tragedies]
[ceridwen]
[xido]
[silverkey]
[Gabriel_Deciel]

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Lesson 01

Consonant/Vowel Pronunciation

How do you say this? How do you say that?
This lesson is about how you should say different consonants and vowels.
I made a list of them, so you can see.

Note to students: Try to actually 'say' these, not in your head, but out loud.
Who cares if your older brother/sister thinks you're nuts? *rofl*

B - Always unaspirated, often voiced. Example: bat
CH - Voiceless affricative. Example: church
D - Unaspirated voiced stop. Example: bed
F - Voiceless spirant. Example: fire
G - Unaspirated voiced stop. Example: egg
H - Voiceless vocoid. Example: hello
J - Voiced affricative. Example: judge
JH/ZH - Voiced spirant. Example: garage
K/Q - Aspirated voiceless stop. Example: stick
L - Voiced spirant. Example: late
M - Nasal resonant. Example: tame
N - Nasal resonant. Example: sin
P - Aspirated voiceless stop. Example: stop
PH - Aspirated voiceless affricative. Example: file
SS - Voiceless affricative. Example: say
SH - Voiceless spirant. Example: shame
T - Aspirated voiceless stop. Example: hit
TH - Voiceless spirant. Example: thank
V - Voiceless spirant. Example: live
W - (Inter-vocalic form of U)
X - Voiceless affricative. Example: banks
Y - (Inter-vocalic form of I)
Z - Voiced spirant. Example: hairs

Note: Voiceless consonants are more common than unvoiced,
giving the language a sinister, whispered tone.

Drow has 8 (in some dialects 9) distinct vowels, three of which appear in short/long forms, and two to three in diphthongs.

i e a o ii uu ui ue au

ii varies by dialect.
Sometimes it is pronounced like in the English word sit, and sometimes like in the English word we. (Short or long)

Example word: Ilythiiri (drow)

The back vowels are always rounded.
The vowel UU is in some dialects pronounced as a rounded II (like in the word we) or otherwise pronounced like in the word put.

The vowel E varies between the sounds as in way and met, depending on how the speaker wants to pronounce it.

When either A or E are written double, it indicates a long vowel.
The long forms are held for an extra beat of speech.
The vowels II and UU are not long versions, but are distinct sounds.

The Drowish diphthongs are au, ui, and ue.
ou is rare and usually only found in verbs (it is pronounced like "oh").
au is pronounced like in brown, ui is pronounced like in quick, and ue is said like in wet.

Are there any questions?
If not, I'd like the students, for practice of the language, to try to say these three words:
'Treemma (fear), Yorn (power) and Belaern (profit)'
Try to create that sinister tone!

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Lesson 02

Verb Conjugations

Drow verbs take different forms depending on a number of factors:

whether it is singular or plural;
in the first, second or third person;
in the active or passive voice;
in a past, present, or future tense;
and what the mood of the passage is.
It sounds harder than it is.

Number
Regular verbs are made singular with the suffix "-ar".
In the sentence "the warrior kills", the noun is singular, so therefore the verb is, and it would be "elggar".

If we pluralized "the warrior" to become "warriors", then the "-ar" suffix would be removed,
leaving the verb to be "elgg".
Needless to say, the Pluralizing portion of Drow grammar goes right along with this topic.

Person
In Drow, the first and second person
(I and You) usually have the same form.
Only the third person (he/she/it) is different, being completed with the suffix "-e".

Example: (I give, you give, he gives)
Usstan belbau, dos belbau, uk belbaue.

Mood
Usually there are three moods:
imperative, indicative, and subjunctive,
but Drow does not have different endings for the imperative or subjunctive moods.
The indicative mood
(usually indicated in English by the "-ing" suffix) is made "-in" in Drow.

Example: Udos phuul raldarin l'waess da'fol rivvin.

Tense
Regular verbs have "-us" to make the past form.

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Lesson 03

Basic Words

Good, now that we have conjugation and pronunction, we can start with small sentences such as how to greet some one or make silly remarks about one's appearnce or the weather. -not that we have weather down here...but hey, if you bump into a handsome drow on the surface, you gotta say something-

note to students: Try this by talking to your dog, it will actually listen and 'try to understand' AND it wont ask stupid questions.

Hello/Greetings: Vendui
You: Dos
Be: Tlu
How:Lu'oh
Have:Inbal

Lord:Senger
Lady:Jalil
Here:Ghil
There:Gaer
Your: Dosst

My:Ussta
Mine:Usst
Work:Xund
Home:Delmah

There, these are some common words, with the conjurgation you should be able to convert Are and Have into that which you need.
If you still wonder over words or are to lazy for conjugation ;) well, then i have a translator here.
Its quick, i use it sometimes too, though i normally try to go from head.
http://www.grey-company.org/Maerdyn/resources/translator/index.cgi?text=home&tiny=1&lang=Drow

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Lesson 04

Forming and Deforming names

I ran across the net and collected Suffixes and Prefixes for names for either male or female. I also made house Suffixes and Prefixes, just so that you guys can find a good last name too (and i had a lot of time on hands ;) )

Oh and I'm gonna put them on other wikis, cause they would kind of clog up this one, and we dont want that do we?

Anyway, as you might know, most drow names consist of a first name and a last name. Many Noble houses on the other hand have Last Names as well as House Names. This means, that the House Name can be the Last Name, but the Last Name can never be the House name.
Its like with a circle and an oval. An circle is always also an oval, but an oval is never a circle.
That is what seperates -amoung many others- commoners from nobles. Nobles have mostly House and Last names, if only to point out that they are noble most of the time.

Drow Male/Female Suf- and Prefixes
Drow House Suf- and Prefixes

Enjoy, and tell me what you've made from these names ;)

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2003-09-15 [zeb]: Is there a place where we can get somekind of dictionary for Drowic?

2003-09-16 [Linn Scarlett]: i dont know yet, but iam looking and searching

2003-09-21 [Davorah]: How do I join this class?

2003-09-22 [Linn Scarlett]: put ye name under the other students

2003-10-19 [black dust]: how?

2003-10-19 [Linn Scarlett]: with the 'edit this page' button

2003-10-19 [Kim_Lundin]: Ehum... when will the lessons continue? It was a while since they were updated.

2003-10-19 [Linn Scarlett]: ohh yeah sorry, its called school and exames, will edit as soon as possible, promis

2003-10-19 [Kim_Lundin]: Oh, the dangerous schools, the can hinder many wikis...

2003-10-20 [Linn Scarlett]: not really...but iam trying to find time to get on elftown in the first place (ive always got like 20 messages O.o maybe people actually LIKE me around here O.o)

2003-10-20 [Kim_Lundin]: 20!? Well that's alot of messages... I never have more than six.

2003-10-20 [Linn Scarlett]: hmz well i get like 3 from captiv 4 or 5 from sey some of zeph and co endumz every now and again some of raven, tri and tie and well sometimes of folks i dont even know (yet)

2003-10-20 [Kim_Lundin]: :-) Lucky you.

2003-10-20 [Linn Scarlett]: yeah i guess :p am making a new lesson will post it soon *hides the drowic lesson under her math book when her mother enters the room and pretends to be doing math'

2003-10-25 [dragoncaptive]: hello Teach. *grins and adds name*

2003-10-25 [Linn Scarlett]: hiye STUDENT :p

2003-10-27 [Sharkly17_Vamp]: baldur's gate 2 would prolly be a good refrence for this wiki...

2003-10-27 [Kim_Lundin]: baldurs gate is FUN! Well... when all the talking is done and the real adventures begins.

2003-10-27 [Linn Scarlett]: *tab/shifts BG2 down* iam sorry? i was looking something up *smiles*

2003-10-27 [Sharkly17_Vamp]: well, a bunch of the game is spent in the drow city, so it should have some drowic in it...

2003-10-27 [Sharkly17_Vamp]: i leart goodbye from it...

2003-10-28 [Linn Scarlett]: it does it does *trys to conentrate on BG2* see, iam at the moment runnin around the underdark, so... :p i learned much from it and from dictionary, ive a tendency on calling chars around me after words (like the mage Faern ->meaning wizard and Ilharn--->meaning father, and so on...

2003-11-02 [Sharkly17_Vamp]: ah. funfunfun

2003-11-02 [Linn Scarlett]: yeah read my chars history and you know some new words, iam currently a lil bussy with school and stuff, but ill work as fast as possible on a new lesson

2003-11-12 [Lady Diamanta]: Hello all! *waves*

2003-11-13 [Linn Scarlett]: good day *rapidly working on her next lesson*

2003-11-13 [Lady Diamanta]: Ooo next lesson, fun funny fun! ^^

2003-11-13 [Linn Scarlett]: yes i know iam working working

2003-11-26 [Sharkly17_Vamp]: next lessons are always good!

2003-11-26 [Linn Scarlett]: i know i know! but ive just gone to 4th, see, got piles and piles of homework *sighs*

2003-12-04 [Sharkly17_Vamp]: More homeworks are always bad!

2003-12-05 [Tetiana]: hello. . .not to sound stupid, but what exactly is drowic? I mean, it seems neat, but where did it come from?

2003-12-05 [Linn Scarlett]: from for a thousand sources and a bitt of my imagination *pats Tetiana on the back* but iam in my exams this week,

2003-12-17 [Copper LeGree]: will there be any new lessons sometime soon?

2003-12-17 [Linn Scarlett]: donno depends on my exams hun i know i havent posted for ages, but i cant help it

2003-12-17 [Sharkly17_Vamp]: drow are evil elves from The Forgotten Realms, a setting for D&D

2003-12-18 [Linn Scarlett]: yeah something like that, but basically the name is Dark Elves, for all darkskinned elves, better known as the Drow, but Drow soons better *smiles* its a long story but generally the god was angry and game them 'just' a word not a real name; Drow<--->Word

2004-01-03 [akhirah]: i heard they spit alot when they talk XD

2004-01-03 [akhirah]: i heard they spit alot when they talk XD like a sorta german accent

2004-01-03 [Lady Diamanta]: I don't see an evil, sly Drow elf... spitting.?_?

2004-01-04 [Linn Scarlett]: it looks silly, mut you do make a lot of 'ssss' sounds yeah, i was talking drowish with a friend over the phone once, that was really wierd

2004-01-04 [Lady Diamanta]: It must of. Sssssso weirdsssss.... :)

2004-01-05 [Linn Scarlett]: yeah ever wondered how you spell Lucieus? -the name of Linns soon-to-be husband- its pronounced Lu-ssi-us, with an 'u' as in 'rule', the name realy makes you spit *snickers*

2004-01-05 [Lady Diamanta]: Lol, I must not have enough spitting power, I just druel. :)

2004-01-05 [Linn Scarlett]: hmz oh well *snickers* *imagines a spitting drow* juck! thats disgusting *laughs maniacally*

2004-01-05 [Lady Diamanta]: Lol, that's a really funny image to picture. The evil spitting Drow!

2004-01-05 [Linn Scarlett]: yeah O.o oh boy...sides i uploaded a drawing (it was supposed to be a drow) but i exidently wrote that above it -see image-

2004-01-05 [Lady Diamanta]: Lol, it seems you don't just like Drow elves... :)

2004-01-05 [Linn Scarlett]: well, call it 'like' if you like ;)

2004-01-05 [Lady Diamanta]: I'm just making an assumption of who that is in his arms. :)

2004-01-05 [Linn Scarlett]: yeah sure,,,,just 'assume' *smiles* ive got two colored visions of it, one as highelf and one as darkelf

2004-01-05 [Lady Diamanta]: That's cool. It's amazing what a bit of color can do to completly change the subject matter of the drawing. :)

2004-01-06 [Linn Scarlett]: yeah i know, but oh well...who cares :p i drew an albino drow once, now that was funny

2004-01-06 [Lady Diamanta]: An albino drow? Now THAT must of been an interesting sight. :D

2004-01-07 [Linn Scarlett]: it is...think: black think: crowd of drow think: a white drow in the middle

2004-01-07 [Lady Diamanta]: Lol, I can barely picture that. :D

2004-01-08 [Linn Scarlett]: i can, and i want to have that one white drow :) just because hes well...white?

2004-01-08 [Lady Diamanta]: Now what's the difference between a white drow and a pale elf? :)

2004-01-08 [windowframe]: a pale elf wouldn't nessicarily(sp?) have the white hair and redish pinkish eyes, which are the trade marks of an albino...

2004-01-08 [Linn Scarlett]: and a drow -drow have white hair and red eyes- but i figured an albina would have black hair and dark eyes and WHITE SKIN, a pale elf as in 'surface elf' are the same color as your skin, a 'pale' elf would be vampiric whitish, but not as white as an albina

2004-01-08 [windowframe]: thats not an albino, thats just an inversed colour scheme

2004-01-08 [Linn Scarlett]: who cares :p its an albino :p

2004-01-08 [windowframe]: but...it's not. :S :P

2004-01-08 [Linn Scarlett]: it is ;p sides, i made a haldir-sim

2004-01-08 [windowframe]: sorry, :P i not gonna give on this one, I know thru and thru what an albino ish, and to be an albino u gotta have redish pinkish eyes, white skin and white hair, if it ain't got that, then it's jsut some other random freak of nature. ^^;;

2004-01-08 [Linn Scarlett]: drows *always* got white hair and *always* got red eyes

2004-01-08 [windowframe]: good for them, but that dosn't mean that an albino drow would be an inverese of what they normally look like, it'd just mean pale/white skin as well.

2004-01-09 [Linn Scarlett]: he has :)

2004-01-09 [windowframe]: but u sed he has black hair? which makes him not albino

2004-01-09 [Linn Scarlett]: but drow have always white hair

2004-01-10 [windowframe]: good for them! that dosn't mean that an Albino drow would have black hair. they're jsut like white mice... if you have lots and lots of white mice, and then one of them has an albino - that mouse wouldn't be black, it would still be white.

2004-01-10 [Linn Scarlett]: i know...but my drawing will get a little too...white...if you get my point

2004-01-10 [windowframe]: *shrugs* it probs would. i'm just arguing about whether it's an albino or not ^^;;

2004-01-10 [Linn Scarlett]: -_-'

2004-01-11 [Lady Diamanta]: I'm going to stay out of this... :)

2004-01-11 [windowframe]: :P ^^

2004-01-11 [Linn Scarlett]: you really should *pokes silverfire*

2004-01-11 [windowframe]: *pokes Linn w/ her holy poking stick*

2004-01-11 [Lady Diamanta]: :) pokie pokie

2004-01-11 [Linn Scarlett]: *pokes back* pirate-fans worship me! ive made a Jack Sparrow Sim :p

2004-01-12 [Lady Diamanta]: Lol *joins the poke battle with a double poke, one for each of them*

2004-01-12 [windowframe]: * * * *<<invisible pokage

2004-01-12 [Linn Scarlett]: *does magic poke atack*

2004-01-12 [windowframe]: *brandishes holy poking stick menacingly* watah!!!!! *pokes eberybodY!!!

2004-01-13 [Lady Diamanta]: *pulls out poking stick of poking and pokes back*

2004-01-13 [Linn Scarlett]: *pulls out her tea-spoon-of-doom*

2004-01-13 [windowframe]: hmmm... *draws her trusted Ninja stick with other hand* nyyaaaaaa!!!!!! *cross pokes Lady n Linn*

2004-01-13 [Linn Scarlett]: *wacks silverfire with her Teaspoon of Doom*

2004-01-13 [Lady Diamanta]: *pokes [windowframe] back with poking stick of poking*

2004-01-13 [windowframe]: *thwaps linn w/ her ninja stick n pokes lady bk w/ her holy poking stick*

2004-01-13 [Lady Diamanta]: *pokes both of them with poking stick of poking in a sweep*

2004-01-14 [Linn Scarlett]: *still using her Teaspoon of Doom, takes her Bittercup of Merchyless in other hand'

2004-01-14 [windowframe]: *wreaks random destruction on the stupid gits who seem to think the worlds problem can be solved w/ their bloody style sheets* *coff* *pokes Lady bk*

2004-01-14 [Lady Diamanta]: *pokes in wonder of rant for moment* *pokes Linn because she doesn't want to mess with Silver for a bit* ^^

2004-01-15 [Linn Scarlett]: *pokes both*

2004-01-15 [Soul Dementia]: *wonders why we are having a poking contest...O.O* *pokes someone as they slide past her*

2004-01-15 [Linn Scarlett]: i dont know *pokes ivine*

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