Human

Before the proto-elves left the water, human civilization was developing. It existed for thousands of years, before humans were eventually bred out by the longer lived elves. During this time they developed their own culture and language, and have left a permanent mark on the region. To this day the elves who lived there are sometimes referred to as half elven, though after all this time the difference is much more cultural than biological. It can be seen in a slightly odd dialect, different cuisine, and most notably ancient place names in the old human language. The human language differs from the elven in that more information is given through word order, and less through conjugation. This feature remains in modern half elven, where they have dropped many of the prefixes and suffixes in favor of a standard word order. The ancient language helps identify much of the difference between how elves and humans think. Humans were more direct and concrete in their thinking where elves are more abstract, seeing the world through relationships between ideas. When they were in contact, in order to speak clearly elves needed very long complex sentences in order to provide all the information that humans required. Amongst themselves, elves shortened their sentences, as more information could be inferred by context. Never the less, human sentence structure was more word efficient when context was ambiguous. For this reason, the half elven dialect has had a strong influence on academic works, and is slowly being adopted by many academics. This leads to an odd dichotomy, where a privileged class (academics) and a usually unprivileged and distained group (half elves) share a common language. Of course, many academics refuse to use it for this reason, but it is slowly regaining use.