Pothriki (Language)

Pothriki (High Pothriki; Ttrinn Pöttrikunn or Pöttrinn, Low Pothriki:  ᛏᚱᛁᛘ  ᛒᚬᛏᚱᛁᚴᚢᛘ/ Đrim Pôđrikum) is a Language or group of languages spoken in the Kingdom of Pothric and the wider As’ro-Pothriki Commonwealth on the continent of Halinn. Two standardized Pothriki dialects, sometimes called languages due to very limited mutual intelligibility exist: High Pothriki (High: Ürnypöttrikunn, often simply Pöttrikunn, Low: ᛁᚱᚾᛒᚬᛏᚱᛁᚴᚢᛘ /Ernpôđrikum) and Low Pothriki (High: Hürrunn Pöttrinn, lit. “Mountain Pothriki”, Low:  ᛒᚬᛏᚱᛁᛘ /Pôđrim). The Pothriki Language is the official language of Pothric and one of the official languages of the Commonwealth, alongside As’rian, although only High Pothriki is used in government outside of the Low Pothriki Dwarven Strongholds.

Earliest written records of the language’s use date back to about 2533 P.C, approximately 2300 hundred years before the founding of Gegangör. The earliest known form of Pothriki, Old Pothic, was spoken by the Pothriki dwarves during their colonization of the surface. After the old Pothic collapse, when surface Pothriki civilization fell, the dwarves shut themselves underground, leading to the version of the language spoken underground and among the remains of the surface colony diverged immensely.