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--- kendane͡ivash [2020-02-01 21:42] – Sliced and diced the "Nature" section, renamed it to "Characteristics" pinkgothic
+++ kendane͡ivash [2024-06-28 20:50] (current) – pinkgothic
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-**Kendane͡ivash** is the language of the [[:Threadwielder|Threadwielders]]. Part of the Threadwielder [[:Threadwielder:Commons]], it acquires vocabulary whenever someone [[:Lendane͡ivash:word formation|adds to]] said vocabulary.
+**Kendane͡ivash** is the language of the [[:Threadwielder|Threadwielders]]. Part of the Threadwielder [[:Threadwielder:Commons]], it acquires vocabulary whenever someone [[:Kendane͡ivash:Word formation|adds to]] said vocabulary.
 A canonical dictionary can be found on [[https://tarnish.thorngale.net/kendaneivash/foreign|the Tarnish website]].
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 ===== Characteristics =====
-By inherent design, //Kendane͡ivash// is not a spoken language, but an **encoded** one. It's more comparable to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8|UTF-8 Japanese characters]] than it is comparable to the rendering of said characters. Indeed, glyphal alphabets for //Kendane͡ivash// vary from place to place, and pronunciation often starkly differs between cultures, where //Kendane͡ivash// is //spoken// at all. It's just as likely someone might encode //Kendane͡ivash// into light pulses or gestures.
+By inherent design, //Kendane͡ivash// is not a spoken language, but an **encoded** one. It's more comparable to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8|UTF-8 Japanese characters]] than it is comparable to the rendering of Japanese glyphs. Indeed, glyphal alphabets for //Kendane͡ivash// vary from place to place, and pronunciation often starkly differs between cultures, where //Kendane͡ivash// is //spoken// at all. It's just as likely someone might encode //Kendane͡ivash// into light pulses or gestures.
 If the mode of communication is not clear, the person initiating a conversation will begin with a recital of the //Kendane͡ivash// [[:Kendane͡ivash:numbers|numerals]] until the other party acknowledges (or the initiator begins to suspect the mode of communication chosen is so unclear that the other party isn't even aware that communication is being attempted (or the communication attempt is outright invisible to their sensors)).
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   * [[:Kendane͡ivash:Alphabet]]
   * [[:Kendane͡ivash:Grammar]]
-  * [[:Kendane͡ivash:Word formation]]
+  * [[:Kendane͡ivash:Word formation]] (see also: [[:Kendane͡ivash:numbers]] and [[:Kendane͡ivash:elements]])
 ===== Spread =====
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 ==== kavkema ====
-The most //notable// users of the language are the [[:kavkem|kavkema]], for whom - due to [[:character:Evenatra]]'s extreme //presence// during their cultural genesis - the language was something of a baseline and now continues to be used as a form of 'weakest encryption': While regular conversation is usually in the lingua franca of the [[:Nayabaru]] ([[:Nayabaru:Naya]]), conversing in their "//ancient tongue//" (formally called //Kendane͡ivash//) can, in a pinch, buy them a few minutes head-start while someone struggles to translate on-the-fly.
+The most //notable// users of the language are the [[:kavkem|kavkema]], for whom - due to [[:character:Evenatra]]'s extreme //presence// during their cultural genesis - the language was something of a baseline and now continues to be used as a form of 'weakest encryption': While educated kavkema can speak the lingua franca of the [[:Nayabaru]] ([[:Nayabaru:Naya]]), conversing in their "//ancient tongue//" (formally called //Kendane͡ivash//) can, in a pinch, buy them a few minutes head-start while someone struggles to translate on-the-fly.
 That this "//ancient tongue//" is still actively expanded by them (causing there to be a slew of kavkem-specific //Kendane͡ivash// words) does not make them refer to it as anything else. The Nayabaru may sometimes call it //kavkemic//, though. Or, you know, "//the language those terrorists use//".
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 ==== Draconics ====
-<fc #ff0000>**WARNING**</fc>: The following material has not yet had a chance to become canonical.
+<color #ff0000>**WARNING**</color>: The following material has not yet had a chance to become canonical.
 Some [[:kazeqen|Draconic]] subcultures use //Kendane͡ivash//, especially when interacting with Threadwielders (i.e. almost surely [[:character:Zalaagra]]), but knowledge of the language is much more spotty than it is with kavkema, as it is usually not the main tongue of the respective culture. In most places that are aware of //Kendane͡ivash// at all, the language shares a status broadly comparable to [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto|Esperanto]] with humans.