THE (ALMOST) UNDELETED

Just some terminology notes (not in alphabetical order)...

A pidgin is "a grammatically simplified form of a language, used for communication between people not sharing a common language. Pidgins have a limited vocabulary, some elements of which are taken from local languages, and are not native languages, but arise out of language contact between speakers of other languages."

a creole is "a mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage."

"GALACH: official language of the Imperium. Hybrid Inglo-Slavic with strong traces of cultural-specialization terms adopted during the long chain of human migrations." (Dune: "Terminology of the Imperium")

Italics or < > indicate orthographic representation (in the sense I use "orthographic": the standard written form of something).

[ ] indicate pronunciation (phonetic representation) using some specialized transcription. (Thus far the only transcription posted here is for Proto-Galach.)

(Not sure if these will be necessary yet or not, but / / indicate phonemic transcription and // // a morphophonemic one. If those terms mean nothing to you at the moment, don't worry about it. )

A period within a transcription or representation usually indicates a morpheme (meaning unit) boundary. (Let's use hyphens in the pronunciation if we want to indicate syllable divisions, what-say?) Underlining indicates stress accent.

E.g., Prequelites [prii.kwal.ait.s] or [prii-kwa-laits]