Mantid (language)

Mantid is the language of the mantid. They click their mandibles when speaking. When they laugh, it sounds like a sharp, ugly noise, as the mantid's mandibles click open and shut in a strange, raspy rhythm.

List of words

 * Klaxxi = means "priest" in the "old tongue".
 * Shek = A royal title or prefix, held by the empress.
 * vess = A suffix often seen in names of mantid settlements, such as Manti'vess, Sra'vess and Klaxxi'vess. Mantid "Vess-Guard" would thus roughly correspond to "City-Guard".
 * thik = A suffix often seen in names of individual groups of mantid, such as the Ik'thik, Set'thik, Kor'thik, and so on.