Strix Dictionary 1

In the #bloodomen saga the #vampires have their own language. It's called #Strix. I don't remember exactly how I chose that name for the language, but I just googled it and found it's a mythological blood-drinking bird...hmm...anyway. Have a look at a few of the words below which can be found in the first two books of Blood Omen. If you know any #Spanish, #Italian, #Catalan or #Arabic, you might recognize a few.

I love this sketch on an old book page. I'm inspired to give it a try... :)
Gothic angel skeleton angel wing art vintage by MadameMemento

And before we start, NO- Strix does not exist. I've had fans who got really disappointed when they heard that because having a secret (vampire!) language between friends is just cool! (And so much more sophisticated than Pig Latin!) But I never wrote more than a few scattered lines here and there in the books. Skilled at picking up languages, Dea learns it quite fast (she heard it a lot when she was a baby, although of course she doesn't remember that) which makes it easier for me to keep writing in English but to give the reader the idea that the conversation is actually happening in Strix.

Those fans who wished it was a real language? I told them to go and make their own dictionary, and let me know how it turns out! :)

Here's a little something to get you started:

1) sai - yes

2) nai - no

3) gratsei - thank you

4) tenim - we have (la tenim = we have her)

5) va - go

6) autoestrata - highway

7) e - it/he/she is

8) mai - more ("Tenim ke ear pol autoestrata. E mai iute," Elias said. = We have to go on the highway. It's faster)

9) Insan - human

10) póssamo - we can/could

11) matar - kill

12) fachile - easy

13) nadya - nothing / no-one

14) por - for/to

15) nostras - we/us

16) tu - you / your

17) eki - here

18) pertentzei - belong ("Póssamo matartze asi de fachile.Tu nai ets nadya por nostras. Tu 

eki nai pertentzei," Lucas spat. = We could kill you this easily. You are nothing to us. You 

don't belong here)

19) klar - of course / clear

20) Bo'alleil - Goodnight

21) be - good

22) de'hn - don't

23) komprent - understand

24) llover - rain

25) Aluka - human Turned into a vampire

26) Abdun - blood slave to a vampire (male/plural), (Abdun'i = female)

27) Llamia - born vampire

28) tik - the

29) musteighrit - wake up / awaken

30) aljunut - army 

31) feeza - win

32) masas - drinker

33) addima - blood (tik masas addima= the blood-drinkers)

Can you add more? Comment below...