Archaic High Elven language

Archaic High Elven was the stage of the High Elven language between 1100 BEKE and 800 BEKE. Much of the High Elven written records from this time are a mixture of religious literature and chronicling of factual history, unlike Archaic Wood Elven, which has already had established written secular epic literature at the point, rather than just history and religious texts. The language was also spoken during the period of time in which the Kingdom of Froturn barely existed, and often changed between a unified monarchy to little more than a glorified tribal confederation during time periods as short as decades. Despite the overall lack of political unity - with the exception during the early times (such as the High Elven campaigns against Fathred the Great)) - the language remained unified to the end and there were no records indicating fracturing into dialects that differed from each other drastically.

Vowels
The language also had dipthongs - namely /iu̯/, /ui̯/, /oi̯/, /eu̯/, /ai̯/ and /au̯/. The close central vowels /ɨ ɨː/ were most likely compressed [ɨᵝ ɨᵝː]. They may even have been fronted [y yː], as evidence by the later loss of distinction between the monophthong /ɨː/ and the diphthong /iu̯/.