Linguistics:

Step one:  The begining.  There is a great war against the forces of badness, the supercontinent is shattered, and the mother of badness is trapped in a time-locked maelstrom at the center of the break.  While other continents drift onward, the scrap of land I am calling Anvor gets caught in the wings of the seal, and effectively lives in a bubble in the lamination that keeps evil in the core and out of the world at large.  Thus, Anvor is isolated from the world at large.

There are three main linguistic groups that settle down, forming the proto-languages that I will call Proto-Elvish [PE], Proto-Draconic [PD], and Proto-Bob [PB].  For PD, I will use a loglan I developed that has improbable consonant clusters aplenty.  So it is effectively done.  For PB, I want something that will yield English-sounding words because while I doubt original Anvorian names like Brian and Anthony are going to show up, I still want there to be a culture or three with names you would not be surprised to run into.  PE's purpose, of course, is to yield a language that I find pretty.

A good way to define sounds and phonotactics for a language (and generate some sample text as a result) is Mark Rosenfelder's language text generator.  I created the following phonotactics for PE:


Categories:

B=oau
R=ei
V=aoeiu
F=θfvδ
L=lwry
K=rnθu
C=kltrdbvyfθwδnmscj


Rewrites:
θ|th
δ|dh
c|sh
k|c
uu|u
oo|o
aa|a
ae|a

Syllable Types:
CV
FLV
CBR
FLBR
BVK
V
FLBRK
CVK
CBRK
VK
CRBK
FLRBK
RB



And it resulted in sample text like so:
"Luelacatan thlela fleci dhyaleca lueraoulothlo vlathrue cauar. Luirthwiu te dhyotolo loefui fluirvwafwa oli fyefwa ti."

Sounds lovely.  Now for Proto-Bob:


Proto-Bob

Cats:

V=eaoiu
C=rtnθsdlkmwfgyhpbvjz
S=s
L=rwy


Rewrites:
θ|th
c|sh
dn|nd
tth|tt
thth|th
bt|pt
dt|t
tn|nt

Syllables:
CVC
CV
VC
V
CVCC
CLVC
CVVC
CLV
CVV
SCVC
SCV

Which produces the following:

"Delthen kan. Nemunuthtethu e ni te nwa sot. Na thorne rer ni sa rit. Teth lir ti te a thef. Rek ret san te en tek rar."

One run of the Protobob tactics produced the word "losertest".  I kid thee not.