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![Despite their high level of intelligence, the dragons do not have a written language. This means that all written forms of the language are transliterations based on Eorzean (English). While our alphabet can be used to represent most sounds of the dragon tongue, there are some tricky ones that range from quirky to down-right impossible for non-dragons to pronounce. Let’s first start off with two of the most important: [n] and [h].
One of the most basic and unique features of the language is the presence/absence of [life] in words. To the dragons, most words (with some exceptions, of course) represent either a concept that contains or is void of life. Words that are deemed to contain life, such as ‘dragon,’ ‘person,’ and ‘flesh’, will almost always contain a bass-heavy nasal N sound somewhere in them, whereas words without life, such as ‘escape,’ ‘sleep,’ and ‘see’, will always contain what can be best described as a wispy/breathy sound similar to lightly clearing ones throat, but without the...er, juiciness, for lack of a better term. The former is represented in transcribed dragonspeak with an [n], the latter with an [h], to distinguish them from normal ‘n’ and ‘h’ sounds.
Dragon - dra[n]
Person - arr[n]
Flesh - [n]esh
Escape - e[h]sk
Sleep - so[h]m
See - [h]ess](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:53lhbsuq3fzyasgt7ew7miq6/bafkreicrqc6v3peqb6iqb3tv4fqfaelsfrw3ywuzdvkno3acktaemfcr5e@jpeg)
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