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Craic (Irish Gaelic)

[kɾˠac]

Translation: Fun, good time, chat, but can also be used in ways like "what's the craic?" to say "what's up?"

Irish Gaelic is an Indo-European language belonging to the Celtic branch. It has 141 000 native speakers in Ireland and 1 030 000 people speak it as a second language. It is taught in schools as a second language, but the population actually speaking Irish Gaelic on a daily basis either live in small areas where English never took over (around 2% of Ireland’s population) or are groups in urban areas mostly speaking it as a second language. Many only speak Irish Gaelic within the education system.

Motivation: The spelling is pretty cool, it’s a culturally specific word, and I love how confused people get when I use it, it’s funny to see people thinking I am talking about drugs when I am not.

שלימזל, shlimazl (Yiddish)

[ʃləˈmɑːzəl]

Translation: A person with perpetually bad luck

Yiddish is an Indo-European language belonging to the Germanic branch, today spoken by 409 000 people. It originated among Jews in Germany who mixed German with Hebrew from the Tanakh, with records going back to the 8th century. After 1250 the Yiddish-speaking Jews got contact with Slavic Jews and spread the language there. The dialect that evolved in contact with the Slavic languages later on became the prominent one. Yiddish was spread beyond Europe due to persecution of Jews in eastern Europe that led to emigration. Around half of the Yiddish-speaking community was murdered in the Holocaust, and due to that as well as further prosecution in Soviet and voluntary switching to Hebrew, there are far less speakers now than before WWII, when Yiddish had 11 million speakers.

Motivation: It’s a fun word

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Echo had been hoarding things lately. Filching nonperishable foods, clothes, blankets, a pair of Kira’s panties. It took him days but he finally managed to finish what it was he was creating. Something comfortable and safe. As soon as he had finished he had run off to get Kira.

He resisted the urge to make a face. That was...a very poor way of thinking. Dangerous, even. The other didn’t seem to have a strong grasp on the definition of consent. “...I was simply caught off guard. But I assure you, I did not enjoy it. I believe most people would be quite opposed to a stranger suddenly touching them so...familiarly. You should remember that for the future or you may truly upset someone.”

שלימזל, shlimazl

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Bear, signed (LIBRAS, Brazilian sign language)

Translation: bear

LIBRAS is a Deaf community sign language from Brazil, which means that it’s a sign language taught in schools for deaf children. There are 630 000 users, out of which 420 000-840 000 are estimated to be Deaf. This is far from all people in Brazil with significant hearing loss, which were 9,7 million people in 2010. It is part of a language family with sign languages derived from LSF, French sign language. This is the largest sign language family as France was the first country to gather all deaf children and teach them the same sign language. Many countries, including Brazil, recruited sign teachers for their own deaf schools from France, which means they have a common origin and form a language family. Because they evolve as languages tend to do  and are influenced by local village sign languages (a group of deaf people in a community create their own sign language, common where deafness is inherited in one or a few families) or home signs (incomplete signs for a bare minimum of communication that isn’t considered a language, common where a deaf child is surrounded by only hearing people), they diverge and become separate languages. Portuguese sign language on the other hand belongs to the Swedish sign language family.

Motivation: just. look at it.

שלימזל, shlimazl (Yiddish)

[ʃləˈmɑːzəl]

Translation: A person with perpetually bad luck

Yiddish is an Indo-European language belonging to the Germanic branch, today spoken by 409 000 people. It originated among Jews in Germany who mixed German with Hebrew from the Tanakh, with records going back to the 8th century. After 1250 the Yiddish-speaking Jews got contact with Slavic Jews and spread the language there. The dialect that evolved in contact with the Slavic languages later on became the prominent one. Yiddish was spread beyond Europe due to persecution of Jews in eastern Europe that led to emigration. Around half of the Yiddish-speaking community was murdered in the Holocaust, and due to that as well as further prosecution in Soviet and voluntary switching to Hebrew, there are far less speakers now than before WWII, when Yiddish had 11 million speakers.

Motivation: It’s a fun word

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रात्री, rā́trī (Sanskrit)

[ɾɑ́ːt.ɾiː]

Translation: Night

Sanskrit is an Indo-European language belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch. It’s the classical language for scientific and religious literature as well as some classical epic literature in India, in a way that can be compared to Latin in Europe. Unlike Latin, Sanskrit is still spoken today with 24 800 native speakers and 5 million who speak it as a second language. It is also still used for some learned literature today. A comparison between vocabulary in Sanskrit, Ancient Greece and Latin was what made 18th century intellectuals first propose a common origin for the languages, which led to the concept of language families.

Motivation: The base word and all of its iterations sound really pretty, and night time is very nice.

Note: There were two versions/pronunciations of this world, since the Devanagari script was for the older Vedic version I used that one for transliteration and IPA too.

שלימזל, shlimazl (Yiddish)

[ʃlaˈmasəl]

Translation: A person with perpetually bad luck

Yiddish is an Indo-European language belonging to the Germanic branch, today spoken by 409 000 people. It originated among Jews in Germany who mixed German with Hebrew from the Tanakh, with records going back to the 8th century. After 1250 the Yiddish-speaking Jews got contact with Slavic Jews and spread the language there. The dialect that evolved in contact with the Slavic languages later on became the prominent one. Yiddish was spread beyond Europe due to persecution of Jews in eastern Europe that led to emigration. Around half of the Yiddish-speaking community was murdered in the Holocaust, and due to that as well as further prosecution in Soviet and voluntary switching to Hebrew, there are far less speakers now than before WWII, when Yiddish had 11 million speakers.

Motivation: It’s a fun word

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The new year was coming in fast and Echo was glad to be spending it with Kira. Though he could not actually see Kira’s face to properly kiss him he had planned to kiss him for the incoming new year. It was a romantic tradition after all and Echo was a romantic at heart.