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Language{ On Using Languages in Comraich } Most commonly used wordsGashi=Greetings The Rest of the ListA warrior who's master is dead - ronau Common Phrases: Death before Dishonor - Sendo kan nai-tsa The Veiled TongueJillhani legend states that the Riss’tsa’ken has always existed. It greatest expression came in the works of the early Jillhani poet Te Ny Llan, whose verses, the Di'’hausu (the House of Life), are considered sacred (and secret) writ. In the verses, Te Ny Llan offers a collection of highly metaphorical portraits of life during the early Bishani Kingdom. Deciphering the meaning behind those metaphors is regarded as a sign of wisdom. Too oblique for most people to follow – let alone comprehend - they are the delight of the Ji'Mal nobles. The tradition of the Veiled Tongue has been kept alive inside the Noble Houses although it use fell away during the time when the seven houses were reduced to five. Reintroduced during the later reformation, it produced a tendency to portray everything in terms of elaborate metaphors and images – a ship becomes the “A Bead Upon a Sune-ku Coils,” a sunset becomes the “Bleeding Horizon,” a child becomes “the Joy and the Tear,” and so on. It is considered an art form to create a variety of rich metaphors in daily speech, casting all things into an artistic and noble light. The Jillhani don’t always use the Veiled Tongue, for it is an art for appropriate occasions, and an art favored more by the Ji’Mal and Ji’Coi than the more practically speaking Ji’Ken. Yet in serious situations, such as war or diplomacy, several Jillhani can shift into it at once, understanding each other perfectly while confounding outsiders. Jillhani consider it a seductive language with many sensual overtones and the Ji’Mal in particular disdain lovers who cannot speak eloquently. The Veiled tongue comes into play when it is important to impress, enlighten or confuse someone else. The Jillhani’s reputation for inaccessibility comes largely through skillful use of the Tongue – it’s a custom they don’t pass on to outsiders. All Noble titles and forms of address are phrased as metaphors. Nothing means what its states at face value, and people unversed in the Jillhani language don’t even understand the words, yet alone the images. This frustrates suitors, spies and allies to no end; however much they might learn about the Jillhani, they will always be yosomono – “Those Lost,” i.e., outsiders. The speech in the Noble Houses is always changing styles and fashion, and many of the Ji’Mal measure prestige by how familiar a speaker is with the latest changes of nuance and style in the Veiled Tongue. Recently there has been an artistic movement, based mainly inside the Ji’Coi, away from the Veiled Tongue, called Tsa’ken. Tsa’ken is a plainer, less adorned speech with a slight poetic bent, believed to be the expressive oral tradition of the original unified Jillhani peoples. It is seen by the Ji’Coi as a reaction to perceived artificiality of the Noble Houses. The movement is small, composed mostly of younger Jillhani, a few artisans and, surprisingly, a small contingency of Ji’Ken, but as an “underground tongue”, interest in it is growing. |
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