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The Dictionary of Yezur

every word, in every tongue, and the roots and kinships that bind them

Many tongues are spoken across the world, and their words are woven together — descended from shared roots, borrowed across borders, and reshaped on every tongue that carries them. The Dictionary sets them side by side: what each word means, how it is spoken, and the family it springs from. Choose a way in below.

Ways into the words

Ancient tongues
The oldest recorded speech — Ancient Hertic and Gaillean among them — from which later languages descend.

Living tongues
The languages spoken across Yezur today: Lonish, Nichana, Pjany, Uu, and their kin.

Families & roots
Every tongue belongs to one of five families; follow a word back to the proto-language it grew from.

See also the encyclopedia of Yezur for the peoples who speak these tongues, and the map for where in the world they are spoken.

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-The '''Dictionary''' is the interlingual lexicon of Yezur — a companion to the [[Main Page|encyclopedia]] devoted not to things and places, but to '''words'''. Where the encyclopedia tells the story of a language, the Dictionary records its vocabulary: what each word means, how it is spoken, and where it came from.
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+Many tongues are spoken across the world, and their words are woven together — descended from shared roots, borrowed across borders, and reshaped on every tongue that carries them. The '''Dictionary''' sets them side by side: what each word means, how it is spoken, and the family it springs from. Choose a way in below.
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-Because Yezur is home to many languages, its words are best understood side by side. A single entry can trace a word back to its family's proto-language, set it against its cousins in sister tongues, and follow it as it is borrowed across the borders of families. Tracing how the world's languages meet and mingle is much of the interest here.
+== Ways into the words ==
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+'''Ancient tongues'''<br>
+The oldest recorded speech — [[Ancient Hertic language|Ancient Hertic]] and [[Gaillean language|Gaillean]] among them — from which later languages descend.
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-== Languages ==
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-Entries are drawn from the languages of Yezur, among them:
+'''Living tongues'''<br>
+The languages spoken across Yezur today: [[Lonish language|Lonish]], [[Nichana language|Nichana]], [[Pjany language|Pjany]], [[Uu language|Uu]], and their kin.
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-|fields=_pageName=Language, native_name=Endonym, family=Family
+'''Families & roots'''<br>
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+Every tongue belongs to one of five [[:Category:Language families|families]]; follow a word back to the proto-language it grew from.
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-== How an entry works ==
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-Each entry belongs to a single word in a single language, and gathers:
-* its '''meaning''' and part of speech;
-* its '''pronunciation''' and native spelling;
-* its '''etymology''' — the roots from which it descends; and
-* its '''relatives''' — cognates and borrowings in other tongues.
-The lexicon is only beginning to be gathered; more words are added as the languages are described.
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+See also '''[[Main Page|the encyclopedia of Yezur]]''' for the peoples who speak these tongues, and '''[[Map:Main Page|the map]]''' for where in the world they are spoken.
-== Companion works ==
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-* '''[[Main Page|The Encyclopedia]]''' — the world of Yezur, its lands and peoples.
-* '''[[Map:Main Page|The Map]]''' — the atlas of Yezur and the craft of charting it.