#urayan

Many Dialects of Neocybex - 2/3

Urayan

According to the linguists, there might have been a theoretical common ancestor of all dialects that exists on the planet. If this so-called "proto-dialect" ever actually existed, then Urayan is probably the closest among all its descendant dialects. For such reason, Urayan is ometimes referred to as "the firstborn of all dialects".

From pronunciations to grammatical structures, Urayan influence can be found throughout dialects that are spoken in regions bordering Uraya, such as Praxian, Altihexian, Protihexan and many more. Even Iaconian has quite a number of Urayan-originated words in its lexicon.

Cybertronians often say Urayan is one of the easiest foreign dialect to learn. Urayans can say the same thing about alomst every other dialects they come across.

Camien

A variant of Urayan spoken in the colony planet of Caminus. Camien originated from old Urayan, which was the dialect the first settlers used.

Thanks to the settlers' strong effort to preserve their Cybertronian heritage, the dialect could be preserved in near perfect condition for a very long time while the mainland Urayan went through various altercations. After some time, the difference between these two became distinctive enough to be considered seperate dialects.

One thing curious about Camien lexicon is that it contains words that even Camiens aren't sure what they exactly mean. For example, they have two words that describes their companions within their familial unit: 'Brother', and 'Sister'. They know who to call a sister or a brother, but when they are asked "why is this person a 'brother/sister'?", they can't provide any explanations. They know it by experience, but they have no idea why it works like so. It's like gendered nouns in European languages, where one knows a 'chocolate' is a 'female' but can't explain why it is so.

As to why there are words with such concept despite the fact that Cybertronians have no biological gender, it still remains a mystery to this day.

Vosian

Before the Grand Unification, All that's known about Vosian was that it is a 'language of flying barbarians'. But once the city-state's rich and uniqe culture was revealed to the world in forms of art, music, architecture and glamorous Vosian upper class lifestyle, the dialect also gained equal recognition and popularity.

Vosian has unique accents that makes the speech sound 'melodic' and 'elegant'. On the other hand, there are people who finds these accents rather 'distracting', or 'overly pompous'.

Vosian dialect is divided into two kind: High Spire Vosian, and Common Vosian. High Spire is the speech of royals, nobles, scholars and other people of high status, while Common is literally the speech of common folks. High spire sounds more smooth and refined, wheras Common sounds more rythmic and lively.

According to the survey conducted by several large universities across Cybertron, Vosian was recorded as third most popular foreign language to study, next to Iacon(1st place) and Urayan(2nd place).

Groundframes or flightframes without visible wings (i.e. Helicopters) may never be able to properly speak Vosian no matter how much they study. This is because there's another important form of Vosian other than sopken or written.

Vosian Wingspeech 

Vosian wingspeech is a type of body language that is delivered through movements of back-mounted wings. Whenever a Vosian speaks, Wingspeech follows too.

In Common Vosian, the wingspeech is little more than gestures that emphasize certain meanings or feelings. Wing movements involved in the speech often happenes unconsciously, so even those who are not familiar with reading wings can approximate the meaning of the movement.

Things are different in High Spire Vosian, where the wingspeech is called "Courtyard Speech". It started as some fancy form of secret handshake that royals used to communicate without nobles overhearing them, and then later widely spread to the upper class in general.

The speaker moves their wings consciously in a series of complicated motions, as if building a sentence in spoken language. Thanks to this, a Vosian noble can speak two different things at once. Often the nobles would speak something and then speak something that contradicts their spoken words. In this case, it's better to bet on the Wingspeech being the real message.