A Dictionary of the Language of Myst's D'ni

Summary

A Dictionary of the Language of D�ni Compiled by Kh�reestrefah This page is published with the permission of Cyan, Inc. Legal Information Introduction The purpose of this webpage is to provide a list of all of the words of the Language of D�ni that have been published by Cyan, together with citation of the actual source of each item and some indication of the context. As a glance at the list of �Sources Cited� so far will show, information about the language has been revealed in diverse ways, ranging from inscriptions on artifacts and writings depicted in the Myst games, to reported speech in the novels, to terminology of the D�ni culture described on Cyan�s own websites. The �D�ni Lexicon� constitutes the bulk of this webpage, in which transcriptions and translations of words and contextual phrases where they occur have been cited, insofar as these are known, or when they can be inferred. Speculative translations are placed in brackets �[ ]� and queried where they are very uncertain or mere guesswork. As further data are published, this page will be revised. A short �Rivenese Lexicon� follows the main word-list. As some of these words are lacking known synonyms in D�ni they may provide indirect evidence, while having an intrinsic interest of their own. A collection of �Transcriptions� of longer texts follows the word-lists. An �Index of English Glosses� is given at the end of the dictionary listing translations for words whose meaning is known or nearly certain, in either of the D�ni or Rivenese languages. Some words have been published both in the D�ni writing system and in a Roman transliteration. Others have been published only in transliteration or only in the original script, and in the latter case the word has been transliterated here. Cyan�s mode of rendering D�ni into Roman letters varies somewhat according to the circumstances, but always based on an attempt to use conventions that are familiar from the representation of English sounds. I have adopted a mo...