The Language of Ezosa (e'zoe'sa)

Ezosa is a language connected the fae, but has since died out over nine hundred years ago, when the fae culture began to faction off into different cultures of the elves, pixies, nymphs, dryads, and ents. This language is considered a truly dead language that cannot be spoken by mortals, only written.

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For those who happen to study the language, they find it harder to translate the words to people as they cannot read the language aloud for those unable to acquire a copy of the written document, journal, note, etc. (i.e. over a conference call or a skype meeting). Per this issue, teenagers, students, professionals, and so on have sometimes found themselves deciphering the language from actual ciphers. The most common form of this is the masonic, or pigpen cipher, which can be a bit tedious to translate.

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Author Note

^{The words that are available in the dictionary above are the only words that author-chan currently knows. More words will be added in the future.}

Quick Facts

Natively Known As:

Ezosa

Sentence Example:

Towu vetomaw domitopeun kiesfo tetodu. = There will be bloodshed.

Ezosa Word Order:

Shed blood there will be.

Dictionary

20 Words.

Syntax

Ezosa follows an object-subject-verb (Prepositional phrase) with conjunctions placed in the middle of two phrases that are possibly conjoined into one sentece, while adjectives are positioned before the pronoun or noun (i.e. "the young prince of the court is to be married" becomes "the court young prince married to be"). Thus, the sentence develops into "sen grebtoled lewtomer qouefiwan jerotoang zer tetodu."
The context behind this is from the fae's desire to show which portion of the syntax is more important than the others. Almost like a hierarchy for words.

Some words are written as two words instead of one word, like "bloodshed," which becomes "shed blood." There are even examples of words like "uncomfortable" becoming "unable comfort" thanks to the root word "comfort" meaning ease and "unable" meaning not able.
The reason for this is that the fae do not like it when there are two separate words squished together to make a new word or even when there is both a prefix and suffix added on to a word. If there is only a prefix or a suffix on a word, the fae may let it slide, like with the word "unable."

Time	Male	Neutral	Female
Past	Fa	Ti	Po
Present	Fi	To	Pe
Future	Fo	Ta	Pa

Translations
English Word Ezosa Words Bloodshed Towu vetomaw Uncomfortable Fretome auitohat
Written in Ezosa How it looks in English Towu vetomaw Shed blood Fretome auitohat Unable comfort

Alphabet

The fae tend to write their language in a different script than what humans are used to seeing. Some can even compare it to the webdings or symbol fonts. It can be written in any form of medium and is read from left to right, and also from top to bottom in a few cases. The symbols contains curvy and sharp edges, which may suggest that the fae's sharp tongue is both deadly and smooth.

If one is the truely know Ezosa, then they must learn not only the pigpen cipher and the English spelling of the words, but also the fae spelling. Below is how to translate a word or phrase from the cipher back to the symbols. One can use it going back and forth between types.

Translation Types

History

As mentioned before, the ezosa language died out around 900 years ago when the fae began to split into factions. Although, the truth goes much deeper than that...
Back in the year 1208 AD, when warlocks were first discovered, the fae had a hard time accepting them as part of the natural world and attempted to have them destroyed, believing warlock magick was corrupt and a poison upon the world. Warlocks are said that they can delve into a darker magick than blood witches, such as mark magick.
While the warlocks were attacked, mocked, and suppressed, they were secretly plotting their revenge. They knew the fae used their magick for everything and to use their magick, they needed their ezosa langauge to do so. The price of using their magick was knowing how to speak ezosa, which the warlocks could use to their advantage. The high warlock, Odivras Irune banded his group of warlocks together to create a spell that would wipe out the speaking portion of the ezosa language.
After many attempts, Odivras managed to create the spell right as the fae created a form of concentration camps for the warlocks. Odivras stood up to the fae with his fellow warlocks revolting with their magick. As the fae started to counteract against the warlocks, Odivras cast the spell and banished the knowledge of speaking ezosa from every mortal species' minds on Earth.
With the speaking portion of the language now gone, the warlocks were able to step out into the world without the dangers of fae magick to suppress who they were. In return, the fae were forced to split into the lesser factions and hide among those they once saw as impure versions of their race.
Now, the Earth was no longer the same with the fae now merging themselves into the dryad, elf, ent, nymph, and pixie factions. Without being able to speak the language, the magick of the fae became lost as well, resulting in most of the fae culture ceasing to exist as well.