Taurahe


 * ''This page draws heavily from the Taurahe page at Wowwiki.

Taurahe is the language spoken by the Tauren. Taurahe does not have an official writing system, because during the nomadic period of the race (which is pretty much all of it), writing was difficult. Carrying around large tomes and stacks of paper are too inconvenient for a race always on-the-move. There has also historically been little reason to write: even children are familiar with the traditional stories and histories, and if anyone felt compelled to write, pictoforms were more convenient. After all, the words themselves are never as important as the ideas they communicate. To a tauren, a drawing of the herd travelling under the sun tells just as much as a whole book could.

Phonology
In order to communicate the language visually, a writing system must be created around the spoken word. Fortunately, this allows us to build a simpler system, intentionally crafting a straightforward system that avoids things like silent letters and unintuitive spelling.


 * [] is also a letter, representing /ʃt/ or /st/
 * a final consonantal symbol is the tick (`). The tick occurs at the beginning of a word that would otherwise start with a vowel.