Language: Chessentan

Chessentan

Region(s): Chessenta
Race(s): Humans mostly

Chessentan is the regional language of the confederation of Chessenta, located in the Old Empires region of southern Faerûn. It uses the Thorass alphabet.

Chessentan is a primary language in its own group which has two major sublanguages: Akalaic and Chessic. In turn, Akalaic had further sublanguages which included: Arkian, Eshowan, Telfir, Akalan, Akûrian, Shaartan and Sespechian. Chessic sublanguages included: Auld Chessic, Alambic, Alambit and Thresk.

Typical surnames from this tongue include: Aporos, Corynian, Heldeion, Morieth, Nathos, Sphaerideion, and Zora.

Chessentans once spoke Untheric, but abandoned that language centuries prior to 1368 DR for the common tongue of the west (using a variation on Untheric writing in their written records, though they reduced the runes to an alphabetical writing scheme). Untheric is often known as a second language, if only to understand ancient writing.