Quoting "Jörg Rhiemeier" <[log in to unmask]>:
>
> There are certain things that recur in descriptions of
> "Elvish"
> languages in fantasy fiction.  One is that the same word can have
> entirely different meanings depending on its intonation - i.e., the
> language is tonal.  Another point is that the language is very
> concise, capable of expressing things in short words which in human
> languages would require long-winded phrases.  Almost universal is
> the notion that the languages of the immortals are exceedingly
> difficult and take very long time to learn, often more time than
> mortals have at their disposal.


The most developed elflang  by me - Longrimol, tends to has a consonant inventory bigger that English's, so there 
are some sounds foreign to English-speakers, but none of them are totally foreign to Europeans (the un-English-ish 
sounds are mostly palatals (J, c, J\, C and L) and the alveolar trill (r).
It is note tonal, I haven't even set any rules for pitch :)
I wouldn't  call Longrimol concise, but it true - it is easier to express complex and sophisticated ideas and concepts 
relatively easy (the vocabulary helps, too - there are 4 unrelated names for moon - for waxing, full, wanning and for 
all these three together).
So, yeah, I think Longrimol is quite an elflang  :)

 
> (My elflang Old Albic is none of all that.  It is neither tonal,
> nor extremely concise, nor does it use speech sounds unknown to
> European languages, and I think it is not more difficult to learn
> than any other human natlang. 

Longrimol might me hard to learn by an English-speaking person, due to the "large amounts" of agreements :)


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