The first people the player meets are the Devotees. This group of people is seeking God, who they believe can be found at the top of the tower. Their most important symbol is the symbol for "God":
The Devotees' language uses the SVO word order.
To express plural form, a word is repeated once - "key key" becomes "keys", "me me" becomes "us", etc.
This means that the Devotees' language has an exclusive and inclusive version of "we": Saying "me me" excludes the
person
being spoken to while "me you" includes the speaker.
Example:
The script of the Devotees' language is likely inspired by the Ge'ez script.
People | Places | Actions | Objects | Other | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Devotee | Abbey | Close | Door | Death/Dead | |||||
Human | Cemetery | Find | Instrument | Free | |||||
Me | Church | Go/Pass | Key | God | |||||
Preacher | Garden | Help | Lens | Greetings | |||||
Warrior | Love/Like | Pot | Music | ||||||
You | Make/Create | Potion | Not | ||||||
Open | Plant | ||||||||
See/Look | Up/Great | ||||||||
Talk | |||||||||
Want/Seek |
"I'm going to the garden"
"God sees us"
"We love music"
Here are some untranslated ones, in case you want to try translating yourself:
"Tome I: Devotees' language" on the Chants of Sennaar Wiki