Fei Language and Translation Guide

Written Language
Written Fei (called Tokka in most circles) is very rare. Most Fei are illiterate with the notable exception of Rohn and scribes assigned to help keep tabs on production and trade within a clan. Most papers written in Tokka are simply records and important information relative to a clan. Fiction is virtually unheard of in written language, kept instead for oral tradition.

Words (Tokkuma) are always headed by a capital letter and each capital possesses a "tail" that extends under the word the capital heads. Sentences are started with a "super capital"that has a tail spanning the whole sentence. This way, Tokka can be written in any direction without spaces and still be understandable. It's not uncommon for the direction the language is written in to be arbitrary.

Alphabet
Under Construction.

Translation Guide

 * (A) denotes Asagi-exclusive terms/meanings

Ata - above, superior to

Awa - Shell, carapace, exoskeleton

Awik - egg

Ahulo - "the rot," most forms of infection

Ba - (Bas, "this" Bast "that") (pl. Baba) it, gender neutral pronoun

Bazni - friend, one who is liked

Bishu - insult, an annoying or rude person

Dakt - to have

Doa - four

Doleshth - harm, malicious intent, misfortune, often used as an explicative

Ei - and, connecting a list

Eiti - silence, still, quiet

Eiva - peace, calm, ease

Et - on, onto, upon

Feiuma - a child, fei that hasn't reached sexual maturity

Karon - to do

Ke - three

Kri - to be (often excluded/assumed)

Krina - to become

Lakt - to give

Lei - white, empty, void

Ma - (pl. mama) she

Magdelon - female leader of a nursery clan, sets prices and negotiates with Rohn over the buyingand selling of egg carriers, pupa, and children

Magdzi - a nursery clan devoted to hatching fei eggs, raising larva, and selling the resulting children to Rohntzi

Maro/Roma - group contained mixed or unknown genders

Mir - below, beneath

Monaa (A) - hidden stars, relating to the manipultion of elements

Na - (pl. Nana "we") I

Nai - one, an individual, when used as a suffix denotes a person who does something (i.e. dakni is one who has)

Naidi - five, a hand or fist

Naron - to want, desire

Navni (A) - world sounds, deeply spiritual music

Nehi - (neh - informal) Most commonly used as a formal greeting. The informal "neh," however, can be used as a filler word in casual speech.

Nwundi - a great colossus/elemental that roves in the center of a shi, created from a fallen star piece, able to project an environment around them based on their elemental composition

Po - Intangible, Atherial components of the body

Pokehri - the art of forging weapons from fragments of atherial components called Puma or the weapons crafted from this art

Puma - a remnant of a Fei's atherial corpse, a collection of memories linked to their dying emotion

Rahd - tool, impliment

Ro - (pl. Roro) he

Rohn - Pseudo-male, leader of a clan of fei.

Rohnta - Previous leader of a clan under a new rohn, counselor to a rohh, highly respected

Rohntzi - A standard clan headed by a Rohn and populated by females under his command

Rohngaal (A) - Ascended fei, a fei that shed their mortality and crossed the Bridge

Shaad - Slave, lesser than beasts, severely insulting term

Shaadtzi - foermerly used to mean a clan that captured and sold Shadrath into slavery, currently means a standard clan that isn't headed by a Rohn, often composed of exiles or runaways.

Shadrath - name for the race of fungus people typically enslaved by Fei clans

Sheppit - insult, a stupid or ignorant person

Shi - the mobile environments/biomes that are created by Nwundi

Tlad - head

Tul - physical aspects of a body, flesh, corpse

Toh - Sentence prefix, denotes past tense

Ui - denotes negation, "no"

Uiyoh/Yohui - maybe, "kind of"

-uma - suffix, meaning small or young

Urada - any intelligent or "soul bearing" race that isn't Fei

Vi - two

Ut - (pl. utut) You

Ya - (Pref. A-) What

Ye - (Pref. E-) Where

Yo - (Pref- O) How

Yoh - yes, agreement

Yi - (Pref. I) Why

Yu - (Pref. U-) Who

Ze - When

Zehr - death, dispersal

Zet - the passage of time, turns (when qualified properly) of the zettagaan

Zettagaan - approximately 4 celestial bodies that rotate over the horizon of Mhida with regularity, used as timekeepers

Zoh - sentence prefix, denotes future tense