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| - Proto-Csillan is the ancestor of language family spoken by the Čis ('tʃis)- a humanoid blue-skinned race inhabiting the planet in the Unknown Regions- the most famous of which is Grand Admiral Ťran (θran). Proto-Csillan was spoken circa 24,000 BBY, waaaay before the Čis developed spaceflight technology. Note Zahn used spellings Cheunh, Chiss and Thrawn in place of Csillan, Čis and Ťran. In-world linguists cannot even begin to hope to reconstruct as far as this language (imagine, like, 10,000 years before PIE, so it spawned a super-family, not just a family), I'm just using this as a base to derive the descendants (which will equate more or less to PIE and will be reconstructed.)
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| - Proto-Csillan is the ancestor of language family spoken by the Čis ('tʃis)- a humanoid blue-skinned race inhabiting the planet in the Unknown Regions- the most famous of which is Grand Admiral Ťran (θran). Proto-Csillan was spoken circa 24,000 BBY, waaaay before the Čis developed spaceflight technology. Note Zahn used spellings Cheunh, Chiss and Thrawn in place of Csillan, Čis and Ťran. In-world linguists cannot even begin to hope to reconstruct as far as this language (imagine, like, 10,000 years before PIE, so it spawned a super-family, not just a family), I'm just using this as a base to derive the descendants (which will equate more or less to PIE and will be reconstructed.) In case you're wandering what various Star Wars authors have developed for Cheunh, here's what Wookieepedia has on it: Cheunh was the official language of the Chiss. It was adopted across Csilla early in Chiss history. Cheunh was a complex, dense tongue that used comparatively few core words and an involved syntax to express ideas; more complicated ideas were expressed by combining related words into a larger whole. The written form of Cheunh was represented ideographically, and the agglutinative features of the spoken language were reflected in the written form, which combined simpler ideograms to present more complex ideas. The Chiss found the complex nature of their tongue to be a source of pride. As Humans did not share the same vocal abilities as the Chiss, it was difficult for other species to pronounce it correctly, even after long periods of study. It followed a logical pattern, though, and could be understood after some study. The Chiss also used Minnisiat as a lingua franca to trade in the space around their frontiers. Known Words/Roots
* Ch'tra - Go
* Crahsystor - Commander
* K'rell - Corellia (Note: It is highly probable that this and the word below are simply the pronunciations used by Mitth'raw'nuruodo in 27 BBY due to his unfamiliarity at the time with Basic, and not actual Cheunh words.)
* K'rell'n - Corellian (See above)
* Ktah - A curse word
* Pohskapforian (aspirated p in second syllable) - Merchant trader
* Pohskapforian (unaspirated p in second syllable) - Fishing boat
* Stae - Near (pronounced: "stee")
* Visvia - Unit of measurement (Visvia:kilometer ratio around 5:8) In other words, this should have been a candidate for Blob's recent worst conlang contest. Let's count up some of the worst sins they've committed: throwing about random apostrophes, post-vocalic aitches, defined as being "alien" and "unpronounceable" while having no phonetic features you couldn't find in any terrestrial language, and overall anglicized pronunciation. I won't even mention just how stupid the pohskaphforian/pohskapforian distinction is. Yes, languages do tend to have some quirky words like that, but they're never going to be five syllables long! Since the Čis my favorite species from Star Wars (and Ťran my favorite overall character) I decided to do them some justice by giving them realistic languages (since saying that one language is uniformly spoken over several light years and has remained unchanged over several millenia is just...no). OK, back to the language itself. Proto-Csillan is a dominantly fusional nominative-accusative, featuring vowel-ablaut and consonant gradation (both of which were written by bats, just look at the charts) in addition to prefixes and suffixes.
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