Hankakho

Hankakho (lit. "Bound Speech" or "Enslaved Tongue")

Language Family:

• Pidgin-Creole hybrid language
• Base: Galanglic (Sindalian dialect)
• Overlay: Trokh (Tokouea'we dialect)

Background & Evolution

Origins:
When the Tokouea'we clan of the Glorious Empire subjugated Human populations in the Sindalian Remnant Worlds, they forced these populations to abandon their own customs and language. However, Trokh — the guttural, honor-laden tongue of the Aslan — was difficult for humans to pronounce due to its reliance on growls, throat clicks, and dominance-based honorific structure.

As a result, the enslaved humans developed a working dialect, mixing the vocabulary and syntax of Sindalian Galanglic with simplified Trokh grammar and a subset of Trokh vocabulary adapted to human speech. This became Hankakho — "the tongue of those who are bound."

Dispersal and Standardization:
As humans were transported across Glorious Empire slave worlds, dialects of Hankakho began to merge. Over time, the language homogenized into a relatively stable pidgin, and after liberation, it was recognized as a minority lingua franca among former Human slaves now part of the Aslan Hierate in the Trojan Reach.