As a personal note, I make no apologies for the languages of Tekumel. The world is not Earth, although the humans of Tekumel did come from Earth—in a time immensely far in the future and as irrelevant to modem English as the languages of the Neanderthals are to us. The world is as complete as I can make it, and its unfamiliarities must just be endured by the reader who is exposed to it for the first time. I can only hope that those with little interest in languages will bear with me. Many readers pay little attention to foreign names in a story in any case, I am told, and simply recognise characters and places by the “look” of the words. There is thus no reason to worry about “spellings” unless one has the “linguistic bug.” Ignore them in the interests of the narrative! One often finds that people who are not daunted in the least by computer languages, quantum physics, and calculus are terrified for foreign languages, while I, alas, am just the opposite. I feel the same awe and apprehension over the mysteries of addition and subtraction that many people suffer when confronted by Spanish or German—let alone Arabic, Urdu, or Chinese!
Or Tsolyani...
Table of Contents
Title Page
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-One
About the Languages
Table of Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Chapter Forty-One
About the Languages