The common Serphelorian dialect is technically termed ‘Sertharian’ by scholars. It is marked out from other Santharian tribal dialects by its gestural component; its sound is much less distinctive than most dialects, due to the Serphelorians' long history of mixing with other tribes. The old Sophronian tongue has died out in the centuries since the unification of Santharia, but words once of that language are often peppered through Serphelorian speech.

Sertharian Dialect. Serphelorians can have quite different accents, depending on what area the speaker comes from. Their Tharian has the more delicate, cultured sounding New-Santhalan acccent in those who live within the Rimmerins Ring and in some larger towns, and is more heavy-sounding in other areas.

While their accent can vary, Serphelorians are easily told apart from the other tribes who mingle in Sanguia by their emphatic gesturing. Nods, hand-waving, eye-rolling, head-waggling, arm-waving, table-thumping, stamping, and any number of more specific, and often less polite gestures are used to emphasise their stories and speech. This marked gestural element to is thought to be linked to the important part many different acted performances of past events play in Serphelorian festivals.

Tharian in Serphelorian areas is also often interspersed with Sophronian words, especially in the army. Only a few scholars know that language now, but words dealing with concepts like weak and strong, and male and female are known by nearly all Serphelorians, and used in place of the Tharian so frequently that it is part of their dialect.

Sertharian is similar to the Centharian dialect in that short sentences are the norm. The long, illustrative verbiage of the Avennorians is avoided, and that style of speech is poorly thought of among Serphelorians. Qualifications to sentences (for example, 'sort of', or 'in a manner of speaking') are delivered in separate sentences, often with a joke.

In an odd contrast to their otherwise bawdy, carefree ways, Serphelorians tend to be quite careful with titles. One must always call a Kaiarxura or a vaxytha by her title, unless one seeks to start a fight!

Sophronian Language. It might surprise readers to know that several phrases in use across Santharia are actually, in their original form, from the Sophronian language. That wonderful term ‘firth’, which describes one’s significant other, or in the verb or adjectival form (‘firthing’), describes someone looking for a short-term significant other, or someone behaving as if they were in rather in need of a significant other, comes from the Sertharian ‘phaerth’. The title ‘Va’, which is so commonly used by female warriors or unmarried women of standing, is the Sertharian title for a woman. Even the Santharian-wide slang ‘xur’, of course being more or less equivalent to the word ‘fantastic’, comes from the Serphelorian custom of tattooing.

These words and more are commonly used in Sertharian speech. A list follows which may be of assistance to the traveler in lands where this dialect is spoken.

The Sophronian language is surprisingly closely related to Kuglimz’Seitre. The word order is thought to be more or less the same, albeit less strict, and there are some surprising similarities in words across these two language. For example, the Sophronian word for ‘invalid’ – ill or disabled person - was similar to the word the Kuglimz now use for ‘sheep’. Scholars of language have speculated that perhaps the lost Mynian language contained a word which was a precursor to both. Differentiating papers written in the old Serphelorian tongue from works in its northern cousin is quite easy for these researchers, however. Hyphens are used to form compound words instead of apostrophes and, tellingly, words tied to concepts of battle, morality, and religion are quite different across the two languages.

Below can be found a list of some of the words which have been preserved by scholars. Many are deductions from currently used words; others have a firmer foundation, having been found in historical documents which were written in both the Sophronian language, and the Glandorian tongue of the Serphelorians’ allies, the Avennorians. Others still are words recently fallen out of use, or recorded by different elven tribes as the Sophronians made their long journey down the continent of Sarvonia millennia ago.

Ar Past-suffix (sort of like –ed)   Afael Others, in the sense of an outside group. Avari’afael Short for Aviaria-jou-afael: tribe of the Aviaria. Thought to be the precursors to the Aerpheronians, although given their use of the word ‘Aviaria’, they may have been elves. Beinxau Sister Bvil Arm Chrond Agreement Chrondra Symbol of agreement Ceryas Roaming, searching Eb Covering   Faeah (fa-EAH) Man Fahn Male H No such letter in Sophronian, except as part of the combination ‘ph’) Ja   Weak, weakling Jaeb Weakling covering Jaesap Belonging, indicating ownership Jeinar(z) Daughter(s) -jou Means ‘of’, and is positioned after a noun. Indicates belonging, like ..’s in Tharian. Je Used to denote having potential. New army recruits are called xau-je (although privately some officers call many of them xau-ja!) Jakat Means something like ‘protector’, but in a more active, aggressive sense Jakat-jou-zaek Lands of the Jakat Jakatya Weak threat-killing thing – set of actions to protect the weak, or more loosely, war dance Kat   To kill a threat, to protect in a very active, agressive sense

Kaiar Proven Kai Strong Kahimar Girl Khazi (sg. kha) Fingers Moeah Wounded, invalid, sick, incapable Noar Port or port town. Noeh (norh-eh) Boy PHelor City, particularly capital or major cities Phael They Phaek Them Rakciel Girl baby (means treasured gift) Rond Tame (verb) Rond-afael Others who tame: Eyelians Ser Around, from Serphelorian – Serphelor means from the city; ‘ian’ was added later by Thiaran speakers, like most tribes’ names. Sophronia-bvili-kat Protected by the arms of Sophronia Tarranoar Tarra’s port town Va Woman, grown person Vahn Female Xur   Means any light silvery blue. Is also slang for awesome (applied to person, particularly women; e.g.: By Armeros, Quesvath was one xur lady!) Xau Warrior Ya Action, set of actions, dance (but to convey a dance, this syllable must be paired with the name of the type of dance, like women’s, men’s, couples’, energetic, etc.) Zaek (pl. zaeka)   Land Zaek-ceryas Roaming-lands Zaek-jaesap Our lands, common lands Zaek-Sophronia-jou Sophronian lands

6th Awakening Earth 1669 a.S. Information provided by Grunok the Exile