Na'ans

This language is primarily used by the Suerrat race throughout the Third Imperium polity.

Description (Specifications)

Na'ans is the most common Suerrat language, though some claim that Yaudal is a competitor in that regard.

Na’ans is a language that lends itself to astrographics, statistics, and just plain mathematics. It has a logic that Terrans found constructed or artificial, but actually developed naturally; possibly a result of the Suerrat’s arboreal lifestyle and resultant spatial awareness.

Lexicon

• Igushaamusiku: Sexual intercourse to seal trade deals, conclude diplomatic discussions, or formalise gatherings

• Ki Aa Kagiik Ikiishilshgiger: "Night of Tears", a commemorative festival

• Mudimzinii Akla Iun: "Spring Fertility Festival"

• Nokar: Loosely, "demons". Creatures of myth that resemble winged and tailed lizard-like humanoids. (See: Ancients)

Selected Proper Nouns

• 'Tlak
• 'Twee
• I'eekruaka'an (I'eekruaka'an Museum)
• Ilelish

• K'lakt'squa
• K'laktash

(These are both water worlds; note the shared K'lakt)

• Lipansho (Lipansho Sea)
• Masakes
• Nansug (Nansug Sea)
• Ne'aa'alu
• Penikauka'an
• Raalah (Raalah River Delta)

• Squee'kak
• Squee'qua
• Squee'tak
• Squee'twok

(These worlds are also all aquatic; squee relates to oceans or large bodies of water)

• Tase'at
• Te'Asaat
• Tete'imaser

History & Background (Historical Linguistics)

The written version of Na'ans takes into effect the language's use of tone to impart inflection. This results in an alphabet with over 65,000 individual characters or pictographs used in formal documents, poetry, music and science. A simplified version of the alphabet, only using 176 characters, is applied in everyday situations.

The linguistic history of Na'ans could be traced back to the pre-space travel Ilelish and was preserved during the Long Night and into the modern day. Some linguistic drift did occur during the Long Night, but many of the resulting differences were absorbed into the greater language once interstellar travel became commonplace again.

Worlds & Sectors (Astrography)

This language is primarily in use in the following areas:

• Ilelish Sector
  • Suerrat Cultural Region

References & Contributors (Sources)

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.

• Aliens of Charted Space Volume Four, Mongoose Publishing