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==Overview==
[[Image:El Daradanel Object.png|thumb|right|120px|Eldar Texts regarding sagas of [[Eldar Mythology]]{{Fn|10}}]]
The Eldar language is considered highly complex and graceful. Many references draw upon the Eldar psyche, mythical figures, and long-lost events. The Eldar also communicate with pose and gesture, it is possible for two Eldar to have full conversations without saying a word to one another.{{Fn|1}} Today, each Craftworld along with the [[Exodite]]s speaks with its own unique dialect that is easily recognizable to other Eldar.{{Fn|11a}}{{Fn|16}} Outsiders might describe the Eldar spoken language as having a musical quality to it.{{fnFn|31}} Other near-[[heretic]]al [[Imperial Literature|Imperial literature]] includes that of [[Inquisitor]] [[Ichtyus Drumall]], [[Obscurus Analects of Xenoartefacts]], where some insight into Aeldari culture and runes is recorded within his self-purported three years spent in the underbelly of craftworld [[Saim-Hann]].{{Fn|32}}
The [[Imperium]] has struggled to understand both the spoken and written language of the Eldar. It took the cumulative life's work of [[Wikipedia:Lexicography|Lexicos]] [[Aldus Mari]] and their 160 predecessors to understand even the most basic ideas behind the Eldar spoken tongue. Aldus acted as the last diplomatic envoy to [[Craftworld Alaitoc]] with their studies on their culture concluding in 453.[[M36]].{{Fn|16}} Other notable Imperials who have contributed significantly to the Aeldari xeno [[Wikipedia:Lexicography|lexicography]] field of study is various members of the prolific [[Mung Dynasty]].{{Fn|18}}{{Fn|10}}
*{{Endn|30}}: [[Codex: Aeldari (10th Edition)]], pg. 45
*{{Endn|31}}: [[Primogenitor (Novel)]], Chapter 8
*{{Endn|32}}: [[Dawn of War: Ascension (Novel)]] - [[ Blood Ravens: The Dawn of War Omnibus]]: ''Chapter Five: Phantasms''
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