#world #language *** Unique language solely usable by [[Tirpis]]. To most creatures, Erdia comes off as whispers, breaths, and other non-verbal sounds. This makes it nearly impossible for anyone to learn the spoken language; however, the writing system is more straightforward and can be taught to anyone and is used to write the Common language. Constructing Erdia sentences is a mix of alphabetical and phonetic systems (e.g. English and Japanese), however with some key rules that impact the writing. 1. Primarily written in English, however letters will follow phonetic rules of Japanese 1. Vowels have their own characters (a, i, u, e, o) 2. When combined with consonants, they instead provide specific diacritic markings to represent a sound 2. Numbering system uses the forestry dot-dash tally system rather than unique characters ### Glyph Key ![[Erdia Language.png]] ### Notes - [ ] This language took on the old language name from [[Erdem]]. This is due to the majority of the Edermians disappearing when [[Aumtra]] got created, with the only remaining humanoid capable of speaking the original Erdia being [[Aroa Kubo]]. - [ ] When [[TASS]] sends encrypted messages, they impose additional rules: 1. Glyphs are instead changed to the following key. Glyphs use multiple letter based on the phonetic rules of Japanese ![[TASS Glyph Key.png]] 2. A filler key is used to fill out columns and also denote separations for long messages (i.e. periods, exclamations, question marks) 3. A Double Columnar Transposition cipher is implemented. The most common key codes directly involve [[Aroa Kubo]] in some manner to pay respects to her creation of the [[Tirpis]], most commonly using her nickname as the key. Although the encryption does not require specific restrictions for the keys, [[TASS]] heavily favors any keys that do not repeat letters and have the same length of characters ![[Encryption.png]] 4. Once the encryption is finished, the glyphs are rearranged into a different column size to make deciphering slightly harder. [[TASS]] defaults to using prime numbers to determine the number of columns, and will vary based on purely aesthetic purposes