Traditional Zejaach
Traditional Zejaach (originally: Zejaach) is a complex language spoken by the early thri-kreen cultures of the Marrow Desert. It is both a verbal and signed language, with signs expressed through body language, antenna twitching, carapace color changes, mandible thrilling, and hand movements of both the upper and lower arms of a thri-kreen. Due to the number of signs and the manner in which the signs are expressed, it is extremely difficult for mortals to learn and near impossible to recreate. Overtime the language has evolved into Simplified Zejaach, or what is more commonly referred to as Flicking. Today, Traditional Zejaach is spoken by only those isolated monoancestral Marrowmen tribes and their eternal foes, the tlincali. Yet many Marrowmen of the anurehsaaq or storyteller caste still recite the histories, myths, and epics of their people in Traditional Zejaach. This is because reciting the legends in another language can be construed as "speaking the truth in error;" a grave crime punishable by death or exile.
See Flicking entry for approximate translations.
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