Chessentan was the regional language of the confederation of Chessenta, located in the Old Empires region of southern Faerûn. It used the Thorass alphabet.^[1]

Chessentan was a core language which had two major sublanguages: Akalaic and Chessic. In turn, Akalaic had further sublanguages which included: Arkian, Eshowan, Telfir, Akalan, Akûrian, Shaartan and Sespechian. Chessic sublanguages included: Auld Chessic, Alambic, Alambit and Thresk.^[2]

Typical surnames from this tongue included Aporos, Corynian, Heldeion, Morieth, Nathos, Sphaerideion, and Zora.^[3]

Chessentans once spoke Untheric, but abandoned that language centuries prior to 1368 DR for the common tongue of the west (using a variation on Untheric writing in their written records, though they reduced the runes to an alphabetical writing scheme). Untheric was often known as a second language, if only to understand ancient writing.^[4]

ReferencesEdit

1. ↑ Ed Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition, p. 85. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-1836-5.
2. ↑ Thomas M. Costa (1999). Speaking in Tongues, Dragon #Annual 1999, p. 24-29. TSR, Inc.
3. ↑ Ed Greenwood, Sean K. Reynolds, Skip Williams, Rob Heinsoo (June 2001). Forgotten Realms Campaign Setting 3rd edition, p. 12. Wizards of the Coast. ISBN 0-7869-1836-5.
4. ↑ Scott Bennie (1990). Old Empires. TSR, Inc. ISBN 0-8803-8821-8.