Zashit Native People

The Zashit were human natives to Ummarnu, and more specifically inbetween The Eye and The Hiarlli. This civilization built cities and temples that have since been lost to time to become ruins rarely found. Their technology developed at a relatively slow pace compared to others, but political systems were quite advanced. The Zashit were mostly destroyed due to a combination of multiple causes, including but not limited to elves, disease, and civil unrest. There is only a single remnant of its culture left, Pablito Elquagero.

Religion
The Zashit possessed a polytheistic pantheon, with each deity representing an aspect of the world. As Zashit society evolved, so did the pantheon, not only in adding more gods or removing ones that fell out of relevance, but by having these be explained by their myths as objective changes in the structure of the world.

Origin
The origin of The Zashit isn't clear, and there are two main theories.

Native Theory
This is the theory that the Zashit are native to Ummarnu, arriving from Paxia almost 15,000 years ago. This is supported by the fact that this civilization has ties with ancient Paxia and not Jagdas, and that the elves found them already existing in Ummarnu when they arrived. After the Expedition to the West, this has been largely discredited.

Arrival Theory
This is the theory that The Zashit arrived in Ummarnu from somewhere else in Rathnir. This is supported by their historical record, which claims that an ancient hero named Zas sailed eastwards with 400-1000 soldiers to colonize new lands and landed on southern Syltor before deciding to live in Ummarnu. This theory is supported by the existence of The Protozas Islands or the Malkkengarun along with ancient legends.

Language
Note: Some words may be changed, like having the J become a G or K become a C if used in circumstances outside of speaking Zashit, like in the name for the town Aldesagch. Zashit does not naturally use The Jagdasian (Latin) Alphabet, but it can be translated into using it.

The Zashit Lexicon has evolved over many thousands of years while still mingling with the common languages of the Ummarnu area. This has lead to both big similarities and differences between Zashit and other native Rathnir Major languages.

Adjectives, instead of having a space between them and the subject have an apostrophe to denote what it is referring to. In Zashit adjective-noun combinations are used to describe concepts without a word most of the time, so eventually these became their own words, with an apostrophe removed. Apostrophes separate adjectives that are mere descriptors to words that form a whole new word with the subject. Ex: Rhudag = Water, while Rhu'dag = A liquid that so happens to be the color blue. Strangely, colors are by default adjectives and must have "gero' added at the end to become a noun.

When searching for a word to translate, for the sake of your time and sanity, use Ctrl-F!

Sentence Structure
Sentence structure in Zashit varies much from Traveler's Tongue. Firstly, punctuation that indicates tone is on both sides of a sentence, with the beginning having traditional punctuation upside-down. Exclaiming "The Fox jumped!" in Zashit would look like "¡The Fox jumped!". Questioning tone would be "¿The fox jumped?". Periods and commas are not effected. If tone changes midway through a sentence, technically differing punctuation could be used but this is extremely rare.

The actual structure of sentences in Zashit is reversed compared to most languages. Instead of Subject-Verb-Object (SVO), Zashit uses Object-Subject-Verb (OSV) as the default. Instead of "The Fox jumped over the Dog.", "The Dog the Fox jumped over" would be used. To go SVO, a special word is often used that roughly translates to "does". EX: "The Fox does jumped over the Dog". Without this, OVS structure is assumed. In addition, present tense is a default, so the sentence becomes "The Dog the Fox jump over". Adding in adjectives and tone for a full sentence, an example with Traveler's Tongue words could be "¡The lazy'Dog the quick'brown'Fox jump over!", meaning a quick and brown fox jumped over a lazy dog. The sentence, finally translated into Zashit, is:

¡El marb'Destid el wirzûm'zărver'Randes hĩnt aĩn!

Alphabet
Although in proper Zashit writing accented vowels are used, it is not incorrect to use the unaccented form (Informal writing usually did not have them in Zashit). Accents are indicative of pronunciation which stress being secondary, with them being exclusive features of the Zashit alphabet translated into Jagdasian Script. This can lead to an interesting situation where one word has multiple accents associated with stress to most, often leading confusion to non-archeologists.


 * A a - Ah / Ă ă - Au
 * B b - B
 * D d - D
 * E e - Eh / É é - Ay
 * F f - F (Only in loanwords)
 * G g - H (When at the end of syllables, lengthens the sound of the syllable's vowel)
 * H h - Always silent, except when used in "kh" where it makes a "ch" sound or when used in "sh" where is makes a "sh" sound. If a compound word forms these combos, the h makes a normal H sound (but not a ch or sh).
 * I i - Ee / Ĩ ĩ - Ih
 * J j - J, Y
 * K k - K
 * L l - L
 * M m - M
 * N n - N
 * O o - Oh
 * P p - P (Used only in names or proper nouns, Considered the Divine Letter)
 * Q q - Kw
 * R r - R
 * S s - S
 * T t - T
 * U u - Uh / Û û - Oo
 * V v - V
 * W w - W
 * Y y - J
 * Z z - Z

Simple Words & Articles

 * i - And (Always Lowercase)
 * É/Ej - Indefinite Article
 * dé - Of (Always Lowercase)
 * Dez - From
 * Es - Present Tense Verb (Is)
 * El - Definitive Article (The)
 * Lo - Plural Definitive Article
 * ûn - Added as a suffix for whenever the full word is a thing made up of multiple (separate) of the roots (Ex: Archipelago = Garun)
 * Û - Added as a suffix to make the word refer to plural of something (Ex: Islands = Garû)
 * Nû - "Û" when the word it's added onto ends in a vowel
 * Ie - Possessive, Like Traveler's Tongue's " 's ", Added at the end of a noun to make it function like an adjective to the noun it possesses.
 * Nie - "Ie" when the word it's added onto ends in a vowel
 * Ghăm - "Does" as in the preceding noun does a/the verb to the following noun. Makes sentence structure SVO.

Pronouns
Plural pronouns work just like plural nouns. Possessive pronouns are the standard one for the type (He, She) with ie or nie added on (Senie, Masie)


 * Se - Male (He)
 * Em - Male Subject (Him)
 * Mes - Male Plural (Also plural of multiple genders)
 * Éo - You (Male)


 * Sa - Female (She)
 * Am - Female Subject (Her)
 * Mas - Female Plural
 * Ădo - You (Female)


 * So - Unknown Gender
 * Om - Unknown Subject
 * Mos - Unknown Plural
 * Os - You (Unknown)


 * Si - Animal
 * Im - Animal Subject
 * Mis - Animal Plural


 * Sû - Inanimate
 * Ûm - Animal Subject
 * Mûs - Animal Plural

Roots and Prime Words
In alphabetical order of their English/Traveler's Tongue translations,


 * Jiz - Affirmative Response, Yes
 * Diy - Arm
 * Zer - Armor
 * Ră - Air
 * Malk - Ancient, Old
 * Ran - Berry
 * Ébo - Big (Adjective, Added on ends of words)
 * Ûnkh - Black (Adjective)
 * Rhû - Blue (Adjective)
 * Mor - Cetacean (Adjective)
 * Émor - Cetacean (Independent as a Noun) (It is important to note that the Zashit had a high respect for dolphins)
 * Ăjkh - City
 * Zis - Claw, Particularly large fingernail
 * Gero - Color (Add "Gero" to the end of any color adjective to get the noun form)
 * Sûkh - Crocodilian Family
 * Hit - Culture, Race, Group of similar people
 * Kol - Darkness
 * Mek - East
 * Dlat - Vulgar exclamation of surprise, Roughly equivalent to F-Curse
 * Vi - Ground, Any soil, General term for stuff ground is made of
 * Tăs - Fear itself
 * Sas - Feminine/Insane (Added to distinguish something is the feminine form, masculine is the default).
 * Tos - Fire
 * Krét - Flesh, Muscle, Skin
 * Jum - Food, Edible
 * Ăs - Frightening, Scary
 * Sayé - Goodbye
 * Ver - Green (Adjective)
 * Ors - Grey (Adjective)
 * Gûaz - Hello
 * Ken - Home, Homeland
 * Hiar - Hiarllii (Adjective), Relating to the Hiarllii or Bradecblightic
 * Wir - High in quantity, Plural with high concentration (Alternative to "ûn" being added on for compound words when the concept is abstract or non-physical. For example, high speed is not multiple different speeds added together)
 * Got - Man, Person
 * Sĩn - An imitation, Mirrored version of something that is lower in quality, Elven
 * Bet - Ice, Frozen, Freeze
 * Găr - Island
 * Hĩnt - Jump, Jumping
 * Rod - King
 * Marb - Lazy, Willingly inactive, Willingly lacking effort
 * Kluz - Left (Direction)
 * Pal - Long spacially
 * Arn - Light, Bright
 * Dăg - Liquid, Wet, can informally mean Water
 * Din - Menacing, Terrible
 * Yum - Mouth
 * Ămi - Negative Response, No
 * Ămja - No, Lack of, None
 * Kûz - North
 * Kă - Orange (Adjective)
 * Aĩn - Over Preposition
 * Al - Plains
 * Zăr - Red (Adjective)
 * Sor - Reptile, Lizard
 * Zhul - Right (Direction)
 * Ko - Rock (Geology)
 * Jaz - Rock (The verb, as in "We rock!")
 * Viqé - Sand
 * Éto - Small (Adjective, Added to ends of words)
 * Zuk - South
 * Zûm - Speed
 * Veras - Star
 * Qui - Stone
 * Veros - The Sun
 * Mia - Time, Measurement of time equal to 9 Minutes, 1/10th of a Miébo, 10 Miéto, or 1/160 of a day
 * Tid - Tradition, Customs, Culture, Cultured
 * Ves - Tree
 * Akh - Tropical, Hot
 * Méhu - True, Real version
 * Yag - Ultimate, Final yet strongest form
 * Ré - Vapor, Dust, Particles in the air.
 * Nek - War, Warfare
 * Tal - West
 * Ărl - White (Adjective)
 * Gert - Wing, Winged
 * Des - Wolf, Canine
 * Abă - Word
 * Qua - Yellow (Adjective)
 * Zas - Something relating to the person Zas or the first Zashit settlers to Ummarnu if used in a compound word or the person Zas himself.

Compound Words

 * Dăgalsûkh - Alligator {Meaning "Swamp-Crocodilian"}
 * Ûnkhré - Ash {Meaning "Black-Particles"}
 * Zărver - Brown {Meaning "Red-Green"}
 * Dăgalsûkhéto - Caiman {Meaning "Alligator-Little"}
 * Rănûdăg - Cloud {Meaning "Sky-Liquid"}
 * Sasrodzer - Light Comfortable Armor used to sleep in during states of paranoia {Meaning "Queen's-Armor"}
 * Aldes - Coyote {Meaning "Plains-Wolf"}
 * Kuzsûkh - Crocodile {Meaning "Northern-Crocodilian"}
 * Arnmia - Daytime {Meaning "Light-Time"}
 * Destid - Dog {Meaning "Wolf-Cultured"}
 * Morgot - Dolphin {Meaning "Cetacean-Man"}
 * Yagsûkh - Dragon {Meaning "Ultimate-Crocodilian"}
 * Sĩngot - Elf {Meaning "False-Human"}
 * Sĩnéto - Slur for Elves {Meaning (Somewhat) "False-Midget"}
 * Ămjagot - Slur for Elves {Meaning "Lack of-Men"}
 * Sĩni - Slur for Elves {Meaning "Imitation"}
 * Dlatsĩn - Slur for Elves {Meaning "F███ing-Imitation"}
 * Wirzûm - Fast {Meaning "High-Speed"}
 * Vesûn - Forest {Meaning "Tree-Many"}
 * Randes - Fox {Meaning "Berry-Wolf"}
 * Sĩnsûkh - Gharial {Meaning "Imitation-Crocodilian"}
 * Rănûdăgbet - Hail, Snow (Although the Zashit never saw snow themselves except for extreme climate circumstances) {Meaning "Cloud-Freeze")
 * Hiarhit - The Hiarllii People {Meaning "Hiarllii-People"}
 * Miébo - Measurement of time roughly 1 Hour, Precisely 1/16th of a day or 1.5 Hours, 10 Mia {Derived From/Meaning "Time-Big"}
 * Wirébo - Huge {Meaning "High-Big"}
 * Méhugot - Human {Meaning "True-Man"}
 * Akhvesûn - Jungle {Meaning "Tropical-Forest"}
 * Abătid - Language {Meaning "Word-Tradition"}
 * Tosdăg - Lava {Meaning "Fire-Liquid"}
 * Méhusor - Lizard, Quadruped Squamata {Meaning "True-Lizard"}
 * Jumkrét - Meat, Red meat type {Meaning "Edible-Flesh"}
 * Miéto - Roughly 1 Minute, Exactly .9 Minutes, 1/1600 of a day or 1/100 of a Miébo {Derived From/Meaning "Time-Small"}
 * Orsveras - The Moon {Meaning "Grey-Star"}
 * Ămjazûm - Motionless, Still {Meaning "No-Speed"}
 * Kolmia - Night {Meaning "Dark-Time"}
 * Rhûdăgûn - Ocean {Meaning "Water-Many"}
 * Sastăs - Paranoia {Meaning "Feminine-Fear"}
 * Sasrod - Queen {Meaning "Female-King"}
 * Rănûdăg - Rain {Meaning "Sky-Liquid"}
 * Quiviqé - Sandstone {Meaning "Stone-Sand" or "Four-Sand"}
 * Sorkrét - Scaled Skin {Meaning "Reptilian-Flesh"}
 * Yamié - Roughly a Second, Precisely 5.4 Seconds, or 1/10 of a Miéto {Derived From "Ten-Time"}
 * Yamiéto - Roughly Half a Second, Precisely .54 Seconds, 540 Milliseconds, or 1/10 of a Yamié {Derived From "Ten-Time-Small"}
 * Rănû - Sky {Meaning "Air-Many"}
 * Rhûdăgré - Steam or Water-Vapor {Meaning "Water-Vapor"}
 * Dăgal - Swamp {Meaning "Wet-Plains"}
 * Jumkrétdiy - Tongue {Meaning "Meat-Arm"}
 * Koyum - Tooth {Meaning "Rock-Mouth"}
 * Rhûdăg - Water {Meaning "Blue-Liquid"}
 * Rănûnek - Weather {Meaning "Sky-Warfare"}
 * Sasgot - Women {Meaning "Feminine-Human"}
 * Malkgersûkh - Wyvern {Meaning "Ancient-Winged-Crocodilian"}
 * Quagero - The Color Yellow {Meaning "Yellow-Color"} (Add "Gero" to the end of any color adjective to get the noun form, other color nouns removed to make space)
 * Zashit - The People this page talks about {Meaning "Zas'-People"}

Numbers
For a number to become ad adverb (One to First, Seven to Seventh, X to Xth), have it be written "of X". "Yû" becomes "dé Yû", so saying something like "First Zashit" would be "Zashit dé Yû"
 * Yago - Zero
 * Yû - One
 * Ur - Two
 * Ni - Three
 * Qui - Four
 * Û - Five
 * Net - Six
 * Tan - Seven
 * Iq - Eight
 * Get - Nine
 * Yag - Ten

Modern words based on Zashit

 * Unkhreraptor - A species of Dromaeosauridae dinosaur that lived in the iridaceous, discovered by Pablito Elquagero working for The HTSAA. {Meaning "Black-Dust-Raptor" or "Ash-Raptor"}