Qi Qii Khu

Qi Qii Khu is a constructed language meant to encode a view of the world. Some of that view is stated outright. Other parts are only implied, by the sound of a word or by how its glyphs can be rearranged. The spellings below are the written forms. The pronunciation in parentheses is a guide, not a second spelling.

Ursprache

Ursprache is German for the speech of Ur. Ur was an ancient city of Babylonia, in what is now Iraq, and it is the setting tied to the Tower of Babel. In that story, human language was confused so that people would not reach a godlike power. The word therefore means a lost first language, a reconstructed parent tongue. In this glossary, QcQi~u is that language: easy to say, and the speech of paradise.

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