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==Andorii== |
==Andorii== |
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===Andorii Terms=== |
===Andorii Terms=== |
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*(unpronouncable): Eden/creation ({{m|TOS|Star Trek V: The Final Frontier}}) |
*(unpronouncable): Eden/creation ({{m|TOS|Star Trek V: The Final Frontier}}) |
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+ | :''Terms and definitions come from the ''Glossary of Andorii Terms '' found at the back of ''[[Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume One]]''.'' |
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Graalen is a consonontal-root language where consonant pairs provide a word's core subject matter, while the vowels specify the word's type. For example, the consonant pair '''''ND-R''''' connotes worlds, planets, or "everything." The vowel set '''''A-O''''' indicates a simple singular noun. So ''Andor'' means, simply, "world" while ''Ondara'' means "music" (literally: ''the sound the world makes''). The suffix '''''-YA''''' or '''''-IA''''' modifies a noun to prominence, so when Andorians became aware of other worlds, their world became more popularly known as ''Andoria,'' meaning ''the'' world. |
Graalen is a consonontal-root language where consonant pairs provide a word's core subject matter, while the vowels specify the word's type. For example, the consonant pair '''''ND-R''''' connotes worlds, planets, or "everything." The vowel set '''''A-O''''' indicates a simple singular noun. So ''Andor'' means, simply, "world" while ''Ondara'' means "music" (literally: ''the sound the world makes''). The suffix '''''-YA''''' or '''''-IA''''' modifies a noun to prominence, so when Andorians became aware of other worlds, their world became more popularly known as ''Andoria,'' meaning ''the'' world. |
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+ | The round symbols are [[Andorian]] vowels. ({{rpg|LUG|The Andorians: Among the Clans}}) |
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*[[Greater Andorian]] |
*[[Greater Andorian]] |
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Revision as of 19:16, 13 September 2009
There are several languages used in Andorian culture.
Andorii
The main spoken language on Andoria in the 24th century was called Andorii. (DS9 - Worlds of DS9 novel: Andor: Paradigm)
In 2377, Dr. Bart Faulwell noted a similarity between the written language of the Ardanan culture and Andorii, as well as with Human languages of Japanese and Chinese. (CoE eBook: Signs from Heaven)
Andorii Terms
- ceara: traditional clothing among zhen
- challorn: a sweet smelling flower
- eketha: a hardwood tree
- elta: a floral tree
- grelth: an arachnid
- hari a flatbread
- karskat: misbegotten
- katheka: a stimulant analogous to coffee
- kheth: the temporary pouch that grows over and around the lower abdomen of a zhavey for the final phase of Andorian gestation
- klahz: an animal known for its careless way of moving
- saf: a psychoactive chemical refined from an Andorian plant, used in the shelthreth and generally available only by medical prescription on Andor. Possesion of saf is illegal off Andor.
- shapla: a betrothal symbol; woven locks of hair from bondmates
- shax: a poisonous parasitic insect that nests under the skin of its host
- shaysha: an edible beetlelike insect
- shelthreth: ritual consummation of marriage for the purpose of conception
- taras: a kind of tree
- tezha: sexual union outside the shelthreth
- vithi: an edible flower
- xixu: a marine plant whose fronds may be mashed and used in baby food
- zhiassa: a zhaveys milk
- zletha: a flower
- (unpronouncable): Eden/creation (TOS movie: Star Trek V: The Final Frontier)
- Terms and definitions come from the Glossary of Andorii Terms found at the back of Worlds of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Volume One.
Graalek/Graalen
Written Graalek
Graalek is the written form of Graalen, a native language of Andoria.
Graalen is a consonontal-root language where consonant pairs provide a word's core subject matter, while the vowels specify the word's type. For example, the consonant pair ND-R connotes worlds, planets, or "everything." The vowel set A-O indicates a simple singular noun. So Andor means, simply, "world" while Ondara means "music" (literally: the sound the world makes). The suffix -YA or -IA modifies a noun to prominence, so when Andorians became aware of other worlds, their world became more popularly known as Andoria, meaning the world.
The round symbols are Andorian vowels. (LUG module: The Andorians: Among the Clans)
