The Ankhai language is partly influenced by Xaelan, however, it is a language that's separated from it.

All Ankhai will learn their native tongue.

Many (not all) will learn the Xaela tongue.

Some will learn common, except this is more commonly found among those camping to the West whose families used to trade with Ilsabardans.

The Ankhai language is based off of Tuvan. Like how the Xaelan language is based off of Mongolian.

We of course, do not expect people to know Tuvan to RP with the tribe, but given some RPers like to use snippets from languages to add flavour and represent their spoken language, we have a few words and phrases that may be useful.

Mendi -> Hello

Mendi chaagay -> Greetings

Ekii -> Good Morning/Afternoon/Evening

Eki udungar -> Good Night

Bayrlyg -> Goodbye

Eki tur siler beh? -> Are you well?

Siler kayi hireh siler? -> How are you?

Iye -> Yes

Chok -> No

Eves -> Not

Men eki tur men -> I am well

Men eki eves tur men -> I am not well

Men shoolug eves tur men -> I am so-so

Chettirdim -> Thank you

Meeng adym... -> My name is...

Silerning adyngar kymyl? What is your name?

Oong ady... -> His/Her name is...

Deergi -> Mr/Mrs

Alternative language ticks

If your character is a partial "common" speaker, if you want inspiration for language ticks you introduce to show this. You could use some of the following:

Repeating pronouns, eg: "I am well I"

Yes/No Questions end with 'right', eg: "You are well, right?"

Question words go at the end, eg: "Their name is what?"

Use of gender-neutral pronouns.Example conversion with ticks:

"Hello, today you are well, right?"

"Yes, I am well I, thank you. You how are you?"

"Today I am not well I."

"Help you, can I?"

"It is my son, they are making me tired."

If you are curious, these represent the following Tuvan:

In Tuvan pronouns are sometimes repeat, eg: "men" is "I" and "men eki tur men" means "I am well".

Questions end in a question word like "be", although it does not have a direct translation, you might end up think of it like making a statement and saying 'right?'

There are no gendered pronouns: "Oong" is account for "his", "her" and "they".