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The Dictionary gathers the words of Yezur's many tongues — what they mean, how they are spoken, and where they come from. Where so many languages meet, a word is best understood beside its kin: an entry can trace it back to the family it springs from, set it against its cousins in neighbouring tongues, and follow it wherever it has been borrowed across their borders.

The languages

Words are drawn from the tongues of Yezur, among them:

Language	Endonym
Gaillean language	Ghaellea
Hertic language	Χερτεχι
Lonish language	Lôniêv
Nichana language	Nehchánh
Pjany language	Peanei
Uu language	Uu-Co

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-<div style="font-size:200%; font-weight:bold; color:#2a4b6b; line-height:1.2;">The Dictionary of Yezur</div>
+The '''Dictionary''' gathers the words of Yezur's many tongues — what they mean, how they are spoken, and where they come from. Where so many languages meet, a word is best understood beside its kin: an entry can trace it back to the [[:Category:Language families|family]] it springs from, set it against its cousins in neighbouring tongues, and follow it wherever it has been borrowed across their borders.
-<div style="font-style:italic; font-size:110%;">every word, in every tongue, and the threads between them</div>
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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.
+== The languages ==
+Words are drawn from the tongues of Yezur, among them:
-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.
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-== Languages ==
-Entries are drawn from the languages of Yezur, among them:
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-== How an entry works ==
-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.
-== Companion works ==
-* '''[[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.