"Cha Tzeen chaka ul kay Phaos!"
- —The Prince of Apostles, Herald of Tzeentch[3]
Anoqeyån is the language that, according to Old World legend, is spoken by both gods and Daemons. If this is true, then the language that the Empire's sanctioned Magisters use to cast their spells -- Magick -- is related to the Dark Tongue, the hellish language of the Daemons of Chaos, and also the divine language of the gods.[1a]
The vast majority of the Imperial academic community had assumed that Anoqeyån was just a myth. However, if the Magister Patriarch Verspasian Kant is correct in his beliefs regarding the lingua praestantia and its genealogy, it could be said that to possess a knowledge of even a considerably devolved and dialectical version of Anoqeyån (as the lingua praestantia is said to be), would denote a grasp of concepts and processes that are otherwise unknown or inexpressible, in and through, the mortal languages. Hence the lingua praestantia's pre-eminence as the language of Human spell-casting, precisely because it is so exhaustively specific.[1a]
It is believed that despite the complexities involved in pronouncing the syllables of the lingua praestantia, even they are as nothing next to some of the other dialectical derivatives of Anoqeyån.[1a]
In truth the Elven tongue of Eltharin is a simplified version of Anoqeyån, the Elves' own arcane language, which is the closest surviving mortal language to the words spoken by the Old Ones.[2a]
Lexicon[]
C[]
- Cha[3]
- Chaka[3]
K[]
- Kay[3]
P[]
- Phaos[3] - Psychic essence, soul, will (If it holds the same meaning described in the Dark Tongue)[4a]
T[]
- Tzeen[3] - Change, Tzeentch (If it holds the same meaning described in the Dark Tongue)[4a]
U[]
- Ul[3]
Trivia[]
Anoqeyån may be a reference to real world Enochian, the alleged language of angels.