Avej

A localised language among the Human inhabitants of Vahjdi, a technologically primitive world whose people descended from Vilani colonists of millennia past. Avej is the primary language of the Baku, the coast-dwelling people of Vahjdi, and of many desert tribes further inland. It developed largely in isolation, but its original roots were Vilani, with -- some speculate -- occasional influence by Vlazhdumecta.

• Location: Vahjdi, Talak System (Far Frontiers 1537)
• Related Languages: Old High Vilani (distant)

Grammar

Plurals are formed with the suffix “-'n”. For example, Faffad becomes Faffad'n. Names can be plural, as they often reference supposed qualities that are themselves standardized plural.

Lexicon

• Baj-uku: “Washer with Water”. A derogatory term used by N'Raqah clans to describe the Baku; a pun. Being desert dwellers, using water to bathe is wasteful to the N’Raqah, and unethical.

• Dwerrolj: A subculture of Vahdjins, closely related to the N'Raqah.

• Eschjik-jik: A plant

• Faffad: A beast of burden, and the favoured mount of N'Raqah.

• Jah: "Lands", a categorization; referred to division of land by terrain, purpose, or quality

• Jarwehj: "Sand"; the dunes, that unlike other parts of the desert can be crossed but not lived in.

• Jwah: To encircle, surround

• Ka-Kachra: "North Wall"

• Ka-Kinchra: "South Wall"

• Ka-Vahajah: "Brownlands Wall"

• Kaij: "Produced from", "carried by", "born of". Also the name of a settlement, probably from Kaijur, "seaborn"

• Kaijur-jah: "Seaborn Lands"

• Kap-Althajwah: "Encircling Mountains"

• Kap-Altha: "Mountain"

• Kapak: "Hill". Plural, Kapak'n

• Kathwa’n: "Guardians"

• Laladjye Ur: "Sea Jewell"

• N'Raqah: A desert-dwelling tribal culture

• N’Saq Hassikjah: "Land of Eternal Day", the t'kahrejyi

• Siffsiq: A custom, in which visiting emissaries are bid to ride one of a clan's faffad'n.

• T'kahrejyi: Deep Desert

• Truj: Untranslatable, obscene reference to invaders

• Ur: "Sea". Note that coastal settlements often incorporate this into their name, e.g. Urseg and Urwed.

• Ur-Chawathu: "Windsource Sea"

• Ur-jarwehj: "Sand Sea"

• Uraq: A clan's leader and ultimate authority

• Uraqya: "Leader Over Many Clans". Plural, Uraqyad'n

• Vahajah: "Brownlands"

• Voj: Caravan family of the Dwerrolj

• Yjid: A bladed bolo

References

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.

• William H. Keith Jr., J. Andrew Keith. Uragyad'n of the Seven Pillars (FASA, 1981), .