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{{Infobox language
| language = [[Aydahari Language]]
| image = https://imagedelivery.net/TNzzP2IqyQLYoHEs2ZN5aQ/dc824888-57b1-4324-0833-082416546d00/wiki#.png
| caption = A draconic adaptation of [[Otan]]i, shaped by [[Aydahar]] anatomy and infused with Dragon speech. Breathier and more serpentine than [[Ortalyk]], it varies by substrain and carries strong religious and philosophical traditions.
| native_name = [[Aydahari]]sh
| family = Ortaluyk Til
| usage = Spoken, Written
| regions = [[Altinqor]]
| speakers = 5,000,000
}}

The [[Aydahari Language]] is more an adaptation of a common tongue than a wholly separate language. The elongated [[Aydahar]] skull, longer and more agile tongue, and lips that do not form as tight a seal as those of most humanoids have gradually pushed the language away from consonants that require closed lips, particularly the hard “b” and “p” sounds. The result remains close enough to the common [[Otan]]i language that a careful [[Ortalyk]] speaker can sometimes make out individual words in an otherwise unfamiliar [[Aydahari]] sentence. To the untrained ear, however, the distinction is rather less academic: [[Aydahari]] sounds like cats or snakes arguing over a musical arrangement of breathy vowels, hisses, and tongue-formed consonants.

[[Aydahari]] has also borrowed naturally from the Draconic Language spoken by the True Dragons. Dragon speech can convey extraordinary amounts of information in a single sound pattern, sometimes compressing what would be an entire sentence into a single word. Dragons nevertheless employ certain single-word expressions as part of their linguistic protocol, and these have been adopted enthusiastically by the [[Aydahar]]. The result is a language that retains recognizable [[Otan]]i grammar and inflection while carrying unmistakable traces of its draconic inheritance.

== Speakers and [[Dis]]tribution ==
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Nearly five million speakers use [[Aydahari]] every day, primarily within the nation of [[Altinqor]]. As with many languages on [[Otan]], [[Aydahari]] divides into several dialects corresponding broadly with the six [[Aydahar]] substrains. These dialects can themselves break into smaller regional forms, particularly in remote communities such as the high-altitude settlements of the [[Aq Aydahar]].

Despite these differences, the common language remains sufficiently unified for [[Aydahar]] from different regions to communicate without great difficulty. The Jazil [[Aydahar]] have perhaps the most distinctive dialect. Their aquatic tendencies have shaped not only pronunciation but also much of their vocabulary, with slang, popular idioms, and curses drawing freely from the freshwater lakes and rivers that define their homeland.

At the opposite end of the spectrum is the Altin dialect, regarded by [[Aydahar]] as the gold standard of diction. It is precise, formal, and somewhat stilted, which makes it particularly appropriate for government and ceremonial speech in the capital of [[Kazinasi]]. Elsewhere, most speakers have little reason to sound like the Council of Six Elders when they could simply sound like themselves.
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== Writing and Literature ==
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Written [[Aydahari]] is readily understood by anyone capable of reading the [[Ortalyk]] language, reflecting the close relationship between the two. The written forms are similar in almost every practical respect, although modern [[Aydahari]] has softened some of the popping consonants of older speech, and this evolution is sometimes represented in writing. The language therefore presents considerably fewer difficulties on the page than it does when spoken aloud.

The most common book in [[Altinqor]] is Seksiz, or The Infinite. It follows the Book of [[Woden]], but retells its religious themes through the eyes of [[Jormungandr]], the World Snake. Additional chapters turn toward the science, mathematics, and philosophy of infinity, exploring a concept that [[Aydahar]] tradition holds can only truly be understood in the afterlife, embraced within the infinite coils of [[Jormungandr]]. It is therefore both a religious work and an intellectual one, reflecting the peculiar place that infinity occupies in [[Aydahari]] belief.

The most popular secular work in [[Altinqor]] is undoubtedly A Geniology of Dragons, by the famed [[Sophist]] [[Ak]]maral Astiq and numerous contributors. This massive work proceeds backward from the present toward the period before the Great Erasure in an attempt to unravel the origins of the [[Aydahar]] and their Dragon progenitors.

How much of the work represents recovered history and how much is philosophical fancy is difficult to determine, but [[Aydahari]] [[Sophist]]s stand firmly behind it. With hundreds of contributors, the book has become less the work of a single author than a continuing attempt to reconstruct a past that the Great Erasure made deliberately inconvenient.
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