Klatha'sh (language)

Klatha'sh is the language primarily used by the Ziadd race throughout parts of the Third Imperium.

• It is a peripheral or minority language.

Description (Specifications)

The primary language spoken by Ziadd. Most Klatha'sh speakers are found within Ziadd colonies in Shallows, Ushra, Zeda and Remnants subsectors.

History & Background (Historical Linguistics)

Like Anglic, it is derived from a number of root languages and has a large number of regional and planetary variations each with its own distinct character and flavour.

Ziadd sports, martial arts, and physical pastimes tend to be amongst the most complex and physically rewarding within Charted Space. The language is particularly studied by many interstellar militaries, mercenaries, and body builders. The Ziadd life sciences are particularly advanced, with an incredibly complex vocabulary for nutrition and physical fitness.

Examples

• Kigmu'khe k'arr orrg'aa eth draechkl: "He who waits longest, comes last"

• Hiikuragh hiaqia si dryash ballich'ka Ziadd slichudd: "We are the Ziadd and we are proud"

• Ektsurr-a'th raimrukl sura'kr kaqqir: "A man is what he believes"

• Gaelm'ach siiq haarik oaqqha'drerr ats'all: "If the lessons of history are ignored they are relearned."

Lexicon

A-B

• B'kath: An old practice of ceremonial suicide, whereby a Ziadd threw himself on a matriarch's funeral pyre.

C

• Chaiklin: A clan. Literally the word means "children". The chief was the father and the people his children.

• Chaiklin Khu'ch: "Star Clan". Chaiklin that took to living nomadic lives in space following the long-ago conquest of their worlds by the Ushran Empire.

• Chaiklin Zhi: Minor clans.

• Cleci: "Large Dry", the name given to a planet.

D

• D'Ghrual: A unique type of pseudoalgae that can grow in vacuum.

• D'skom'r: "Native men", clan members related to the chief and to each other by blood.

• Davizi: A food crop.

K-O

• Ka: "Lord", "Path"; in general, that which is to be followed.

• Khu'ch: "Stars".

• Laem: "Broken", "sundered".

• Laem'r: "Broken men"; individuals who, for one reason or another, take the protection of a clan and become part of it despite not being related.

• Oeth: "Freedom by the sword" or "living on a knife's edge". The word is used as the name of a planet.

P-R

• Qaesvr: A type of flower from Zeda.

S

• Saqqari Ziaddishi: "Zeda Alignment", the old Ziadd interstellar nation.

• Saqqari: "Alignment".

• Suvae: A type of flower from Oewni.

T

• Taaka: A board game.

• Tsaadl' Khu'ch: "Song of the Stars". Often used in reference to a legendary race of supposedly intelligent winged reptiles, recorded in early Ziadd legends.

Z

• Zaeth: "Blunt". Used idiomatically to mean someone who is unworthy or incapable of defending themselves -- as protected by tradition from violence as a young child.

• Zeda: The Ziadd homeworld. More correctly, Ziadda. The common pronunciation and spelling are Imperial in origin.

• Zhee'ac: An animal, used in hunting.

• Zhi: Septs or branches of a clan, which are made up of clansmen who have become sufficiently powerful to form their own, smaller clans within the main.

• Zhi'laem Avr: Independent Guild of Assassins. Note that the component syllables of "assassin" -- zhi and avr -- are here separated by laem, "broken", a concept that also means "sundered" or "separated".

• Zhiavr: "Assassin". This is not merely a descriptor, but a codified and ritualistic profession.

• Zhiavr'ka: "Assassin's Path".

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This language is primarily in use in the following areas:
Charted Space:

• Dagudashaag Sector
  • Zeda Subsector
  • Shallows Subsector
  • Ushra Subsector
  • Remnants Subsector

Homeworld: 1105

The homeworld of this language is:

• Zeda

World Listing: 1105

Significant communities of speakers of this language are known to reside within the following systems and worlds:

No world articles for Klatha'sh (language)

References & Contributors (Sources)

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This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Mongoose Publishing or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Jae Campbell. "Library Data: Shallows." Signal-GK 09 (1994): 57. via HIWG
• Jae Campbell. Encyclopaedia Dagudashaag (Signal-GK, 2017), 204.
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science