The language of the Karra’olmo seems difficult to understand at first, but once you grasp a small amount of vocabulary and a few important grammar rules, it’s easy to have a conversation with someone else.

Anyway, let’s begin!

The Karra’olmo language is really a fairly small number of words combined with click consonants (‘) to create a larger, more meaningful word.

Let’s take, for example, the Karra’olmo’uy, the meeting place of the Karra’olmo gods.

Karra is the base of the word, proven because it starts with a consonant. Karra means, in short, a body of water. You can just say the word Karra at any time, and people will understand what you’re saying.

Olmo is the descriptive part of the word, pretty much like an adjective. Olmo means black and godly. So, Karra’olmo means the Black and Godly Body of Water.

If you read my claim post, you may have noticed that the main Karra’olmo god is called Karra’olmo’. The last click consonant is important- it signifies that this thing, Karra’olmo’, is a deity. Yalda’ici’, another god I had in my claim post, has the click consonant at the end.

So, what is the purpose of the uy?

This basically means ‘home of.’ It’s a part of the word that I don’t know the name of, but it’s almost like a second, more tactile-ish adjective. Whatever, I’ll just explain how it works.

But in order to understand that, here’s how names work:

Families are named after a local landmark that signifies them. For example, if their landmark is their house, which is a bright red, they might be called ‘Tamdi’izil. Notice the click consonant at the beginning- while one at the end signifies the deity of that landmark. More on that in the religion post.

Anyway, ‘Tamdi’izil means “first child of the red house.” The “red house” acts as a typical European surname, with them being passed down son to son.

For more children, you only need to add numbers at the start of the name. Eki’tamdi’izil means “second child of the red house,” Uci’tamdi’izil means “third child of the red house,” and so on.

So, if you wanted to say “home of the second child of the red house,” you would write it as Eki’uy’tamdi’izil. ‘Uy’tamdi’izil means “home of the first child of the red house.” It’s a mouthful, I know.

So, Karra’olmo’uy means “home of the karra’olmo diety.”

You can also add prefixes at the end of a word!

For example, Karsi’karra’olmo’! Karsi means anti-, so what do you think that means?

That’s right, the anti-black godly body of water diety! Oh boy!

Anyway, that was the first part of the Karra’olmo language, how to create a word! Next part I’ll discuss verbs and constructing a sentence.