Sperethiel

Vedui'il'er, elen sila lumenn omentilmo. ..

Sperethiel is Shadowrun's constructed language (from now on, "Conlang") for Elvish in Shadowrun. How Sperethiel came to be in the Universe seems to stem back to prehistory, back to the 1st World, when Homo Sapiens finally came to be and were forced to invent language. They think they've got a few words out of the first language in actuality.

Beyond that, it seemed that Sperethiel is spoken by the Immortal Elves (Erhan the Scribe and Harlequin as examples), and resurrected the language shortly after the first generation of Elves and Dwarves were born into the sixth world. The reasons why Sperethiel and Or'zet even exist at all is because the developers wanted to say that this is the sixth world, and there was a fourth world before it. Although it would take a linguist to expand Sperethiel and to actually invent the words that Sperethiel works off of, a language like English is composed of some one hundred fifty thousand words in colloquial speech. Sperethiel is composed of some 50 to 70 words, and a few phrases according to Uncle Ancient's Sperethiel lexicon, and that is only a smattering of the language. While D&D elvish has much more to it than Sperethiel.

However, the rules are the same. The words have to sound foreign but be easily prounciable in English. It seems that Sperethiel is as inflective as Cantonese, but with some borrowing from D&D Elvish, Sperethiel becomes more of a language. To see the expanded lexicon, grammar, and phrase book, go here.