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Hallowspeak Update 4

Alright everyone! While it hasn’t been the most eventful week, there are a few things to talk about! But first, some follow up from last time!

Out newest member, Yoshimidsu, who was welcomed into the Team in the previous update, has been settling in wonderfully! We are super glad to have her in the Team and sure that they will bring many new discoveries to the Project.

As well as this, we also have the return of an old member, @Bash !! Nuhrii was one of the people who went completely silent during the Great Hallowspeak Cheddening event that I talked about a while ago. Now, he has returned after some stuff happened in his life!! We are incredibly happy to have this wonderful linguist back, and wish him all best!!

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Now, some information on the Hallowspeak Language itself! This is probably going to be a weekly segment too: Mish being a dumb dumb! Ages ago, I analysed the “-a” suffix that a few words from the voice lines seem to have. The suffix appeared both attached to “tros” (sibling) in the Sisters of Battle’s “Trosa!”, and in the many adjective Zote’s “Zota!!”. Seeing as these were both battle cries, I interpreted this suffix as being an emphatic suffix, the equivalent of a grammatical exclamation mark. In fact, I even came up with a dumb backstory involving word final vowel loss (which has no evidence other than this)! However, I am only now realising that this is way more complicated than it needs to be!

For ages, the Hallowspeak Language has been missing a vital element of grammar: the plural. Do you see where this is going? Both of those uses of the “““emphatic”””, “Trosa!” and “Zota” make perfect sense if that “-a” suffix was a plural instead! This is a much simpler explanation, and I’m honestly a little embarrassed that I didn’t notice it earlier!! In any case, we now finally have a plural!!

And that’s it for the Weekly Hallowspeak Update! Tune in next time!

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