Languages in Azania

## General Overview

Language in serves as a system of communication, interaction and social bonding. It is the primary means of communication in Azania and is conveyed through speech (spoken language), sign, or writing. Language is not dependent on a single mode of transmission and has evolved in Azania to integrate dialects and different languages within a single community using advanced translation technologies.

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#### Swahili

Swahili is the adapted language across Azania, it is taught in all Maafu.

#### Other languages and Dialects

Other dialects such as Isizulu, Tswana, Shona, Yoruba,

#### International Languages

French and Arabic are widely spoken Chinese, English, and Russian, are international languages taught to those in the foreign Mission schools both Tactical and Emissary divisions.

### Greetings in Azania

Greetings in Azania are less of a way of saying hello and more of an acknowledgement of existence. This is captured in the IsiZulu greeting ‘Sawubona’ or I see you/ you are seen. Even in busy metropolitan areas, the streets resound with brief greetings at they pass fellow commuters on their way. It is regarded as a grave insult to walk past someone or to walk into an environment and not great everyone there. Greeting groups e.g., ‘Hello everyone,’ is more than acceptable in a multitude of settings.

The most common greeting in Azania is ‘Aman Azansu’, which means Let Azania be expressed. This is a term believed coined by Maafu Lebone during the formative years of Azania. This greeting is accompanied by a hand motion; A lifting of the right hand in a universal (human) greeting followed by placing the right hand on the left side of one’s chest (the approximate location of one’s heart), sometimes in tandem with a small bow.

Aman Azansu has a layered meaning. The expanded meaning would read something like;

Let Azania (God’s Heart) be expressed in all that you do. Let it be expressed;

* to as many people
* as often as possible
* For as long as possible.

### The Azanian Script

The Azanian writing script and system have interesting relations to the spoken languages in Azania. Like tokening and pictographic scripts, the script relates to deep and often hidden meanings or intentions directly.  The Azanian script only partially represents the properties of the spoken language (Swahili) but in very interesting ways.

The philologists together with the epigraphists trace the evolution of the Azanian script to a hybrid mix of ancient African pictographic and logographic text. As Azania advanced, more archaeologists used technologically advanced techniques to uncover and decode some of the mysteries of Africa that had long been forgotten or had remained coded in ancient scripts.