Gaildaurn language

The Gaildaurn language - also known as Geldorn language or Keldorn(iish Goblin) language - is - or rather, was - the language of the Goblin community of Keldorn and Gabyr. It is an endangered language, facing encroachment from Keldorni Etrandish, as the majority of the language's speakers are slaves, who are constantly pressured to adopt the language of their masters.

The Gaildaurn endonym (their own word for goblins, themselves), "gaildaurn" ->  ->  would give rise to the Keldorni Etrandish name for the island - and name of the state - "Keldorn", giving its name to the Republic of Keldorn as well. It is important to note that Keldorni Etrandish still uses the words "goblin" and "cobold" for the race itself.

Evolution from Proto-Goblin

 * The original diphthongs become
 * The vowel length distinctions are lost later on, temporarily resulting in a 9-vowel system
 * This 9-vowel system is broken up later, by breaking into . This results in a five-vowel system.
 * After this shift, consonants would coalesce with the glides that followed them.
 * The original voiced stops become become voiceless  - remaining voiced only medially -, while the original voiceless  became . The aspirated stops become strongly aspirated, while the unaspirated ones gain a slight aspiration when initial.

Consonants

 * Consonants in the blue appear only in loanwords from Etrandish or Gabyrian. Monolingual speakers rarely pronounce these consonants properly:
 * tend to get conflated with.
 * tend to get conflated with, unless are also conflated with  - in which case,  also get conflated with.
 * tend to get conflated with.
 * Voiced fricatives are either devoiced  or fortified  during the process of borrowing. Either way, they are never pronounced correctly, and always get conflated with another class of consonants, either voiceless fricatives or lenis stops. Foreign  can also get conflated with  instead, which is precisely what happens in loanwords of Keldorni Etrandish origins.

Vowels

 * The consonants The palatalization or labialization  of consonants - as well as the semivowels  and  - tend to have an affect on the consonants that follow them.
 * and cause the vowels  to get more closed, and the vowels  to get more fronted, either slightly  or significantly.
 * and cause the vowels  to be more closed, the vowels  to be rounded.
 * Foreign vowels are borrowed this way:
 * Vowel length distinctions are completely lost.
 * Etrandish are respectively borrowed as . The only exceptions are when a the said vowel is following, in which case they are borrowed as.
 * Gabyrian are borrowed as.