Low Elvish
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| Low Elvish | |
| Spoken in: | southwestern Britain |
| Timeline/Universe: | The Elvenpath |
| Total speakers: | |
| Genealogical classification: | Hesperic |
| Basic word order: | VSO |
| Morphological type: | fusional |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | active-stative (fluid-S) |
| Created by: | |
| Jörg Rhiemeier | 2000- |
Low Elvish is a branch of the South Albic group of languages. It consists of two closely related languages: Avalonian, spoken in the vicinity of Glastonbury, and Sinjenich, the language of the Moonchildren, a group of nomadic Elves in Britain. The languages differ most prominently in vocabulary: Sinjenich has many more foreign loanwords, especially from Romani and Shelta.
Over time, the languages have undergone some fundamental changes. For example, the Old Albic case endings are lost, but a new system of case marking has arisen by initial mutations. The developments can be compared to similar developments that occured at the same time in other languages of western Europe.
