Hen Llinge

This is Hen Llinge or Elder Speech, created as a fan development of the Elder Speech in the works of the Polish author A.Sapkowski.

Consonants

 * in some dialects, the velar /x/ is realised as an aspirated plosive [kʰ] or a glottal fricative [h]
 * in coda-position, /l/ is often realised as a velarised [ɫ]
 * /r/ can be realised in various ways; in most of Skellige, it is common to find [r] or [ɾ], which is used by some Elven speakers, too; in most Elven, Central Skelliger, Dryad and Mage Elder Speech, [ɹ] and [ɻ] are more widespread; Nilfgaard uses [ʀ] and some dialects even [ʁ]
 * next to the the front vowels /e/ and /i/, many phonemes use "soft" allophones, listed in the table below