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Threadwielders immersed in cultures tend to be multi-lingual, but since they cannot expect other Threadwielders to have the same background, their language tends to be maintained as a lingua franca between them, and they fall back to it whenever they visit one another for the first few times.

As such, the language is mostly used by Threadwielders only, though some words will usually sneak into most sapient languages, because of their involvement, especially in mythological contexts.

A notable exception is the kavkema, for whom - due to Evenatra's extreme presence during their cultural genesis - the language was something of a baseline and now continues to be used as a form of 'weakest encryption': While regular conversation is usually in the language of the Nayabaru, conversing in their “ancient tongue” can, in a pinch, buy them a few minutes head-start while someone struggles to translate on-the-fly. (That this “ancient tongue” is still actively expanded by them does not make them change the name. The Nayabaru call it kavkemic, though. Or, you know, “the language those terrorists use”.)

• Alphabet

In the Threadwielder tongue, new words are created chiefly by drastic portmanteauing of composite words. In so much as it's possible, pronouncable and not too outlandish, words are occasionally outright folded into each other, as long as the composite word can still strongly insinuate its base words.

An extreme example: The name “Evenatra” stems from evenatar, as the composite of evenar and venat, forming 'grace of the sky'. Most portmanteauing is not that extreme - names are more frequently reduced to this form as an aesthetic exercise more than a fundamental attempt at brevity.

Think of it like poetry.

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