Islander

Summary
Islander is the language spoken by the Wide Seas Islanders of Zunidh.

Glossary

 * ahalo (cloth, made from sea silk threads)
 * buru (a title for a particularly revered elder)
 * casao (knife, also a type of shell that can be used as a knife)
 * efela (necklace)
 * efelauni (mystical purveyors of efela)
 * efetana (necklace of fire coral)
 * efevoa (sundrop cowrie, or an efela made of them)
 * hani (a relative, blood kin)
 * ivani (respectful term to call an elder)
 * kava (some kind of drink)
 * ke'e (zenith star, the star that marks the latitude of an island or close group of islands)
 * ke'ea (a road, a way guided by the stars and the Lays between one island and the next)
 * nava (meeting place)
 * nefalo (a large clam whose pearls are used in efela)
 * noua (bird, white tern)
 * parahë (large double hulled ship which can hold thirty crew)
 * perioi (strangers/guests)
 * posao (trader of shells and efela)
 * ta (life)
 * tana (fire)
 * tanà (person who holds the Lays)
 * tana-tai (tanà for the Outer Ring)
 * tanaea (striking rock, hearth-fire)
 * tananē (fire for cooking and company)
 * tanapē (fire for cooking)
 * ti palm
 * tovo (rock used in lighting a fire)
 * tui (tree and flower)
 * vaha (a canoe)
 * velioi (foreigners)
 * warokainë (a purple and green shell)
 * wontok (someone who speaks the same language, comes from the same people)


 * Tē ke’e’vina-tē zēnava parahë’ala (Traditional greeting after long absence, roughly ‘How splendid that the star-paths of our voyages meet here!’)
 * Tō mo’ea-tō avivayë o rai’ivayë (Traditional response to greeting, roughly ‘New islands and old islands are ours to discover now we are together again.’)