Language: Thayan

Thayan

Region(s): Thay
Race(s): Humans

Thayan is the language spoken by the inhabitants of Thay. It is a light dialect of Mulhorandi which is the regional tongue in Eastern Faerûn, and the official language of Mulhorand. Other regions where it is commonly spoken include Murghôm, Semphar, and Chessenta. Although a dialect of Mulhorandi, Thayan can still perfectly be substituted for Mulhorandi. Most nations believe Mulhorandi to be the official language of Thay.

Unlike Mulhorandi, Thayan uses the Infernal alphabet instead of the Celestial.

Common Thayan surnames include: Ankhalab, Anskuld, Fezim, Hahpet, Nathandem, Sepret, and Uuthrakt.

The Thayan language descends from a language family known as Rauric. Only Mulhorandi and Untheric survived from this linguistic family. Mulhorandi preserved much of the old tongue, while Untheric evolved greatly over the course of the millennia. Mulhorandi is an inflected language with many verb tenses and cases, word order isrelatively unimportant. It often sounds thick and slow compared to other languages, some consider this due to the influence of priestly rituals on everyday speech. Basic Mulhorandi writing consists of complicated pictureglyphs, each of which represented a different idea. Most Thayans know a basic vocabulary of about 3,000 pictographs, while scribes, wizards, and priests learn a more extensive vocabulary.