A-Niah Language Notes:
Ehsah – I am
En – you
Ensah – you are
Eesahi – He is/She is
Ahee sah – We are
Ahee sahi – You are (second person plural)
Aersan – They are
Sahesa – our
Aba – father
Aba Tyriah – Father Sky
Abirien – father’s siblings child
Adin - wires
AEeen omor - I(all of us)love you/I love all of you
Aeesah suku - I (We) am (are) sure.
Agashen - winds
Ahumoy - inner, extreme thermal [irregular same single/plural
Ahkah! - splat
Als - all
Ama - mother
Ama Kalandris – Mother Sea
Ama Skalaf - Mother Sleep
Amapeh – chocolate mother
Amikal in - a good enough friend to be an occasional lover
Amo – love
Amurien – mother’s siblings child
Anar – many no’s
Anarianty – don’t (you all) fear
Apan – legs
Araham – close friend, heart friend, ‘cupped in two hands’, still
Ash - fly
Auka – eye
Awa – one
Ba – heart/centre
Badahk – heart failure
Boam – tree
Bran – heat
Brandil - fire
Brandilmoy – fire caused thermal
Branmoy – thermal [day’sheat]
Cha – control
Chamir – control bar/tiller
Chapiri – king post/mast
Chakri – chocolate liquor, the darkest most bitter, with orange and served with cream
Cheshadu – severe wound
Dahk – catastrophic failure
Din – wire
Disda - surprise, or more rarely 'changeling'
Doof - stupid
Duru – flare/luff
Drakiriar – mudder or mudling
Dru – way
Drey – three
Ehal – beating heart
El – this
Ensal - island
Enshachik – hang check/rope check
Erd – earth
Erfabma – born
Ertrank – drowned… used as an expletive as well
Ezat – clitoris
Fahk – fuck
Fengan - commence
Foa – Voice
Foa-en – ‘Your voice is heard.”
Fili – bird
Filidoan - feather
Folka – cloud
Folkauken – vision
Folkarig – ‘clouds and rain’, nice term for intercourse, often in the sky
Gashen – wind
Gesher – harness
Genu - enough
Gezee – joyful face
Gh’yir – charge!
Gipar – carabiner/climbing clip
Glai - slip
Ha – to lead
Haifash - dive
Haiyau – roll
Haisiba – spirit/will/ghost
Hu – up
Huaksiba – medic/healer
huaksiba ta shadu – wounded healer
Hakan – honoured/revered commander
Heya – thank you
Ikrosh – doing an Icarus when making afolkarig, and dying
Inaty – fear
Ja or Cha - yes
Kala - water
Kampa – friend
Kamrien – ‘consensus’ or aNiah Assembly [Council Siblings]
Kantu - edge
Ko – to/on
Koak - cloaca
Koram – warriors/fighters/army/navy/airforce – [Niku’s wing is called Koram Worichiah]
Kakr – excrement [shortened to kak for a cruder use]
Kvas – quiet
Maoloah – wrapped yam or potato/mango/pepper bundles, usually baked with pig
Meh-ish - always
Manwiah - forever
Meereen – welcome
Mir - bar
Mi enmin, toto! – You are mine, child!
Mi en min araham – “You’re my friend.” (heart’sfriend, close friend, bloodsibling)
Moy – wing/up/sail /lift (it is a context dependent word)
Moygash – rising wind
Moyhaiyau – wingover/a sailing ‘hike-out’
Moyiri - flyer
Moyoshaushau – loop de loop/capsize
Muntar - Anchor
Natyr – can’t fly/seasick/morning sick
Nar – no/don’t
Narianty – don’t fear
Namoyhaiyau – down spin/sail failure
Namoy – down
Namagash – down draft/onshore wind
Nats – battens
Ni - far
Niku - dolphin
Noll – stall
Omor – love
Omoru - compassion
Omores – beloved
Oshau – pitch
Oshaukah – rotator wind/’ass over tip’
Oyau – turn/bank
Pau-loa - wave
Pan – leg
Peh- chocolate bean
Pehahka – chocolate liquor, highest proof and sweetest
Pehali – sweet chocolate heart
Piri – penis
Pitah - face
Pitpit – stuff-face
Piwo – fruit beer
Plaweer – Speaker
Poonk’t – beak
Pross - next
Ra – little
Rig - rain
Rauergash – turbulence
Reeshen – high/highest/over air
Rien - sibling
Ruk – stone/ridge/mountain
Rukamoy – ridge lift/gust of wind
Sala – sun/sunlight/brightness
Saho – is
Seeshur – a repeating crossbow, copied from the Fehinnan style
Seeshurist – a wing-archer who fires while someone else pilots
Sef – attack
Sefshenadin – attack nose wire… the fore wire to kill people
Shekiri – chocolate liquor, medium proof, with coconut, less sweet than pehahka
Shadu – wound (ta shadu – wounded, cheshadu – severe wound)
Shena – nose/prow
Shenadin – nose wires/lines
Shokenad – finished chocolate
Shvaz – tail/stern
Shlar – loops
Shkavi - shark
Si – your/yours
Skalaf - sleep
Sou - death
Suku – sure (certain)
Ta – it
Ta shadu - wounded
Tamatin – step parent/other parent
Tamoy – climb
Tamoyhaiyau – up spin/planing
T’amoyawa aersan sahesa! – The moyawa, they are ours!
Ta saho zalo msah. – It is as it should be.
Tsee - launch
Tseecha – driven launch of a moyawa
Tsva – two
Tsunai – tsunami wave, washed under
Tyri – sky
Tyriankatin – skysick
Tyromros – skysmitten
Tyrpang – sky crazy, sky bonkers
Vai – ‘to emerge, come out’; new
Vaistiga – ‘Lord/Lady/God/Goddess’
Vai moy – new wing/sail
Vera - Truth
Venga – imperative action/to go/do/emphatic emphasis
Vier - four
Vriah – freedom
Wasteega – Oracle [place] Wasteega Foa [Oracle Person/Voice]
Waxil - vote
Worichiah – foreigner
Yau – Yaw
Zai – side
Zaiglai – side slip
Zalo msah – is blessed, is going correctly, is correctly proceeding
Specific hang glider terms
Akah! – splat
Adin – wires
Apanshlar – leg loops
Cha – control
Chamir – control bar
Chapiri – king post
Din - wire
Enshachik – hang check
Gamuntar – wind anchor (ie. Spiked down) like a sea-anchor
Gesher – harness
Gipar – carabiner
Ha – to lead
Haiyau – roll
Hakantu – leading edge
Hish Ka – the game
Moyawa – wing/sail
Moyoshaushau – loop de loop
Moysef – war wing
Moytsva – double wing/double sail
Nats - battens
Oshau – pitch
Shena – nose
Shenadin – nose wires
Shvaz – tail
Shulpiteh – gauntlet/test
Tseecha – driven launch of a moyawa
Tsee - launch
Tyriankatin – skysick
Tyromros – skysmitten
Tyrpang – sky crazy, sky bonkers
Yau – Yaw
Wind and Weather terms
Agashen – winds
Duru - flare
Gashen – wind
Haifash – dive
Ikrosh – doing an Icarus when making afolkarig, and dying
Moy – thermal/wing/up/sail (context dependent)
Moyhaiyau – wingover
Moyoshaushau – loop de loop
Namoyhaiyau – down spin
Namoy – down
Namagash – down draft
Noll – stall
Oshaukah – rotator wind/ ‘ass over tip’
Oyau – turn/bank
Rauergash - turbulence
Ruk – stone/ridge/mountain
Rukamoy – ridge lift
Tamoy – climb
Tamoyhaiyau – up spin
Zaiglai – side slip
Six main Niah fighting styles
Ha Schvin – Boar
Ha Niku – dolphin
Ha Shkavi – shark
Ha Kormar – giant cormorant
Dru Kala – water
Dru Gashen – wind
Aniah Pronunciation Guide
The Aniah language is fairly uniform across the islands of the archipelago. There are not many silent letters to the language and it is generally pronounced as written. The ‘h’ after the ‘a’ is to emphasize the soft ‘a’ sound. And the ‘sch’ is pronounced like the same Germanic/Yiddish construction.
Ae – long ‘a’, ay like in pray
Au – as in ‘ow that hurts’.
G is generally hard.
The ‘y’ after a consonant is pronounced close to ‘ee’, though if it starts a word the phoneme is shorter. Yau isn’t EE-ow but shortened like yes.. yau… yeah…
Ts – is a single sound, same as Tse-Tse fly.
As a general rule vowels after consonants are short.
The plural ‘a’ at the beginning is generally not emphasized first -- agashen or amoyawa the emphasis is on the second syllable. As in a-GASH-en and a-MOYA-wa, in fact most words are accented on the second syllable as a rule.
Ch is the hard sound like chuck.
Sch is softer.
The aniah have no ‘th’ sound and translate other language’s use of it into their ‘t’ or ‘ts’.
Numbers:
Awa - one
Tsva - two
Drey - three
Vier – four
Fanf – five
Zakz – six
Zeeb – seven
Ookt – eight
Noon – nine
Tsin – ten
Hinar – hundred
Tsinhin – thousand
Distance over land or sea:
Shapeel – a big canoe length, about thirty feet
aHinshapeel – a hundred shapeel, 3000 feet
Height:
Bata – heart hight, a moyawa on the ground
Ba tak (plus numbers) – heart-heights off the ground (a heart height is about four and a half feet)
Names, Nicknames and Ranks (if applicable) in Niku’s Wing to Strangers (AMoyaworichiah)
Beshan (Baska) second in command
Cho (Niku’s paternal uncle, non-flyer, helping with Vriah)
Fili
Huro (seeshurist/self pilot but not so good doubling)
Jeren
Merem
Misa
Sawas aht Rira nar sept Maekun – storm-skirt rider, one of the best flyers if not the best in the wing (Sala)
Sijurai (Suku) third in command
Tikar
Tikur (Tiktik) – seeshurist/pilot
Zakam
En – you
Ensah – you are
Eesahi – He is/She is
Ahee sah – We are
Ahee sahi – You are (second person plural)
Aersan – They are
Sahesa – our
Aba – father
Aba Tyriah – Father Sky
Abirien – father’s siblings child
Adin - wires
AEeen omor - I(all of us)love you/I love all of you
Aeesah suku - I (We) am (are) sure.
Agashen - winds
Ahumoy - inner, extreme thermal [irregular same single/plural
Ahkah! - splat
Als - all
Ama - mother
Ama Kalandris – Mother Sea
Ama Skalaf - Mother Sleep
Amapeh – chocolate mother
Amikal in - a good enough friend to be an occasional lover
Amo – love
Amurien – mother’s siblings child
Anar – many no’s
Anarianty – don’t (you all) fear
Apan – legs
Araham – close friend, heart friend, ‘cupped in two hands’, still
Ash - fly
Auka – eye
Awa – one
Ba – heart/centre
Badahk – heart failure
Boam – tree
Bran – heat
Brandil - fire
Brandilmoy – fire caused thermal
Branmoy – thermal [day’sheat]
Cha – control
Chamir – control bar/tiller
Chapiri – king post/mast
Chakri – chocolate liquor, the darkest most bitter, with orange and served with cream
Cheshadu – severe wound
Dahk – catastrophic failure
Din – wire
Disda - surprise, or more rarely 'changeling'
Doof - stupid
Duru – flare/luff
Drakiriar – mudder or mudling
Dru – way
Drey – three
Ehal – beating heart
El – this
Ensal - island
Enshachik – hang check/rope check
Erd – earth
Erfabma – born
Ertrank – drowned… used as an expletive as well
Ezat – clitoris
Fahk – fuck
Fengan - commence
Foa – Voice
Foa-en – ‘Your voice is heard.”
Fili – bird
Filidoan - feather
Folka – cloud
Folkauken – vision
Folkarig – ‘clouds and rain’, nice term for intercourse, often in the sky
Gashen – wind
Gesher – harness
Genu - enough
Gezee – joyful face
Gh’yir – charge!
Gipar – carabiner/climbing clip
Glai - slip
Ha – to lead
Haifash - dive
Haiyau – roll
Haisiba – spirit/will/ghost
Hu – up
Huaksiba – medic/healer
huaksiba ta shadu – wounded healer
Hakan – honoured/revered commander
Heya – thank you
Ikrosh – doing an Icarus when making afolkarig, and dying
Inaty – fear
Ja or Cha - yes
Kala - water
Kampa – friend
Kamrien – ‘consensus’ or aNiah Assembly [Council Siblings]
Kantu - edge
Ko – to/on
Koak - cloaca
Koram – warriors/fighters/army/navy/airforce – [Niku’s wing is called Koram Worichiah]
Kakr – excrement [shortened to kak for a cruder use]
Kvas – quiet
Maoloah – wrapped yam or potato/mango/pepper bundles, usually baked with pig
Meh-ish - always
Manwiah - forever
Meereen – welcome
Mir - bar
Mi enmin, toto! – You are mine, child!
Mi en min araham – “You’re my friend.” (heart’sfriend, close friend, bloodsibling)
Moy – wing/up/sail /lift (it is a context dependent word)
Moygash – rising wind
Moyhaiyau – wingover/a sailing ‘hike-out’
Moyiri - flyer
Moyoshaushau – loop de loop/capsize
Muntar - Anchor
Natyr – can’t fly/seasick/morning sick
Nar – no/don’t
Narianty – don’t fear
Namoyhaiyau – down spin/sail failure
Namoy – down
Namagash – down draft/onshore wind
Nats – battens
Ni - far
Niku - dolphin
Noll – stall
Omor – love
Omoru - compassion
Omores – beloved
Oshau – pitch
Oshaukah – rotator wind/’ass over tip’
Oyau – turn/bank
Pau-loa - wave
Pan – leg
Peh- chocolate bean
Pehahka – chocolate liquor, highest proof and sweetest
Pehali – sweet chocolate heart
Piri – penis
Pitah - face
Pitpit – stuff-face
Piwo – fruit beer
Plaweer – Speaker
Poonk’t – beak
Pross - next
Ra – little
Rig - rain
Rauergash – turbulence
Reeshen – high/highest/over air
Rien - sibling
Ruk – stone/ridge/mountain
Rukamoy – ridge lift/gust of wind
Sala – sun/sunlight/brightness
Saho – is
Seeshur – a repeating crossbow, copied from the Fehinnan style
Seeshurist – a wing-archer who fires while someone else pilots
Sef – attack
Sefshenadin – attack nose wire… the fore wire to kill people
Shekiri – chocolate liquor, medium proof, with coconut, less sweet than pehahka
Shadu – wound (ta shadu – wounded, cheshadu – severe wound)
Shena – nose/prow
Shenadin – nose wires/lines
Shokenad – finished chocolate
Shvaz – tail/stern
Shlar – loops
Shkavi - shark
Si – your/yours
Skalaf - sleep
Sou - death
Suku – sure (certain)
Ta – it
Ta shadu - wounded
Tamatin – step parent/other parent
Tamoy – climb
Tamoyhaiyau – up spin/planing
T’amoyawa aersan sahesa! – The moyawa, they are ours!
Ta saho zalo msah. – It is as it should be.
Tsee - launch
Tseecha – driven launch of a moyawa
Tsva – two
Tsunai – tsunami wave, washed under
Tyri – sky
Tyriankatin – skysick
Tyromros – skysmitten
Tyrpang – sky crazy, sky bonkers
Vai – ‘to emerge, come out’; new
Vaistiga – ‘Lord/Lady/God/Goddess’
Vai moy – new wing/sail
Vera - Truth
Venga – imperative action/to go/do/emphatic emphasis
Vier - four
Vriah – freedom
Wasteega – Oracle [place] Wasteega Foa [Oracle Person/Voice]
Waxil - vote
Worichiah – foreigner
Yau – Yaw
Zai – side
Zaiglai – side slip
Zalo msah – is blessed, is going correctly, is correctly proceeding
Specific hang glider terms
Akah! – splat
Adin – wires
Apanshlar – leg loops
Cha – control
Chamir – control bar
Chapiri – king post
Din - wire
Enshachik – hang check
Gamuntar – wind anchor (ie. Spiked down) like a sea-anchor
Gesher – harness
Gipar – carabiner
Ha – to lead
Haiyau – roll
Hakantu – leading edge
Hish Ka – the game
Moyawa – wing/sail
Moyoshaushau – loop de loop
Moysef – war wing
Moytsva – double wing/double sail
Nats - battens
Oshau – pitch
Shena – nose
Shenadin – nose wires
Shvaz – tail
Shulpiteh – gauntlet/test
Tseecha – driven launch of a moyawa
Tsee - launch
Tyriankatin – skysick
Tyromros – skysmitten
Tyrpang – sky crazy, sky bonkers
Yau – Yaw
Wind and Weather terms
Agashen – winds
Duru - flare
Gashen – wind
Haifash – dive
Ikrosh – doing an Icarus when making afolkarig, and dying
Moy – thermal/wing/up/sail (context dependent)
Moyhaiyau – wingover
Moyoshaushau – loop de loop
Namoyhaiyau – down spin
Namoy – down
Namagash – down draft
Noll – stall
Oshaukah – rotator wind/ ‘ass over tip’
Oyau – turn/bank
Rauergash - turbulence
Ruk – stone/ridge/mountain
Rukamoy – ridge lift
Tamoy – climb
Tamoyhaiyau – up spin
Zaiglai – side slip
Six main Niah fighting styles
Ha Schvin – Boar
Ha Niku – dolphin
Ha Shkavi – shark
Ha Kormar – giant cormorant
Dru Kala – water
Dru Gashen – wind
Aniah Pronunciation Guide
The Aniah language is fairly uniform across the islands of the archipelago. There are not many silent letters to the language and it is generally pronounced as written. The ‘h’ after the ‘a’ is to emphasize the soft ‘a’ sound. And the ‘sch’ is pronounced like the same Germanic/Yiddish construction.
Ae – long ‘a’, ay like in pray
Au – as in ‘ow that hurts’.
G is generally hard.
The ‘y’ after a consonant is pronounced close to ‘ee’, though if it starts a word the phoneme is shorter. Yau isn’t EE-ow but shortened like yes.. yau… yeah…
Ts – is a single sound, same as Tse-Tse fly.
As a general rule vowels after consonants are short.
The plural ‘a’ at the beginning is generally not emphasized first -- agashen or amoyawa the emphasis is on the second syllable. As in a-GASH-en and a-MOYA-wa, in fact most words are accented on the second syllable as a rule.
Ch is the hard sound like chuck.
Sch is softer.
The aniah have no ‘th’ sound and translate other language’s use of it into their ‘t’ or ‘ts’.
Numbers:
Awa - one
Tsva - two
Drey - three
Vier – four
Fanf – five
Zakz – six
Zeeb – seven
Ookt – eight
Noon – nine
Tsin – ten
Hinar – hundred
Tsinhin – thousand
Distance over land or sea:
Shapeel – a big canoe length, about thirty feet
aHinshapeel – a hundred shapeel, 3000 feet
Height:
Bata – heart hight, a moyawa on the ground
Ba tak (plus numbers) – heart-heights off the ground (a heart height is about four and a half feet)
Names, Nicknames and Ranks (if applicable) in Niku’s Wing to Strangers (AMoyaworichiah)
Beshan (Baska) second in command
Cho (Niku’s paternal uncle, non-flyer, helping with Vriah)
Fili
Huro (seeshurist/self pilot but not so good doubling)
Jeren
Merem
Misa
Sawas aht Rira nar sept Maekun – storm-skirt rider, one of the best flyers if not the best in the wing (Sala)
Sijurai (Suku) third in command
Tikar
Tikur (Tiktik) – seeshurist/pilot
Zakam