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{{Infobox language
| language = [[Batis Language]]
| image = https://imagedelivery.net/TNzzP2IqyQLYoHEs2ZN5aQ/43da523b-0856-4632-dedb-dbfb93954100/wiki#.png
| caption = This native tongue of the [[Batistikar]]s is linguistically unique. With a rhythmic cadence and a lack of hard consonants, it sounds like a song.
| native_name = [[Batis]]h
| family = [[Batis]]h
| usage = Spoken, Written
| regions = [[Batis]]
| speakers = 4,700,000
}}

The [[Batis Language]] is an anomaly on [[Otan]]. It bears little apparent resemblance to any other language on the continent. It is soft-spoken, and even when shouted, lacks the hard consonants heard in nearly every other tongue. Meaning relies heavily on intonation and shifting volume, with the most common consonant being an “m” sound. To an [[Aydahar]], accustomed to sharper consonants and draconic speech patterns, [[Batis]] can be particularly difficult to form. To the untrained ear, it sounds less like conversation than people humming verses of a song to one another.

The [[Batistikar]] closeness to nature has also left its mark on the language. Animal sounds are incorporated directly into speech, and these sounds can carry several meanings at once. A wolf's call may represent a word, invoke the [[Wolf]] god Kaskir, and recall a passage from an old [[Batis]] story. A particular utterance might therefore function as vocabulary, religious reference, and oral history depending on its tone and context. This makes the language difficult enough for outsiders to learn without adding the small complication that a phrase may also be a prayer.

== Speakers and [[Dis]]tribution ==
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Nearly five million [[Batistikar]]s speak [[Batis]] as their native language. It is spoken throughout the Republic of [[Batis]] and along its borders, with occasional non-native speakers found in neighboring [[Aelfgarad]] and [[Soltustik]]. The language remains closely tied to [[Batistikar]] identity and the agrarian, nature-centered society in which it developed. The [[Batistikar]] relationship with animals is particularly deep, extending from farming and hunting into religion, art, medicine, and everyday life.

[[Batis]] traders generally have little incentive to teach their language to outsiders. Those conducting business beyond their homeland are far more likely to use [[Ortalyk]] or the [[Traders Cant]], both of which make commerce considerably easier. [[Batis]] therefore travels with its people more readily than it travels through trade, and native speakers encountered elsewhere are usually [[Batistikar]]s themselves or people who have spent considerable time among them.
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== Writing and Literature ==
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[[Sophist]]s believe the [[Batis Language]] was once written entirely in pictograms, with individual symbols representing whole sentences, stories, or ideas rather than individual sounds or words. Nothing from that earlier system survived the Great Erasure. Since then, the [[Batistikar]] have adapted [[Ortalyk]] script to represent their spoken language, giving scholars and [[Sophist]]s their first practical means of recording and studying [[Batis]] in a durable written form.

[[Batistikar]] literature is therefore a young tradition, even though the stories themselves are ancient. For the first time, the people of [[Batis]] are systematically recording the stories of their gods and preserving them beyond the oral tradition. The animal deities of [[Janyarism]], including Kaskir the [[Wolf]], [[Kar]]ga the Raven, Ogiz the [[Bison]], and the other spirit guides and messengers of the [[Batistikar]], feature prominently in these works. Their stories are now beginning to circulate beyond [[Batis]], allowing the rest of [[Otan]] to encounter a body of mythology that, until recently, existed primarily in memory, ritual, and voice.
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