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Cant Mechanicus
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The Cant Mechanicus is the term for the collective languages of the Adeptus Mechanicus. Few outside the Adeptus Mechanicus can comprehend these tongues, let alone reproduce them. Many Tech-Priests have their jaws and throats altered, the better to speak languages that were designed only for cogitators to use. Furthermore, each language is replete with internal self-references and allusions to knowledge that remains unknown to those outside the order. Their use is forbidden by any not of the Cult Mechanicus. A lot of these languages have words and even entire grammatical structures missing, eroded by the entropy of millennia or corrupted by scrapcode.[1]
Known Languages of the Cant Mechanicus
- Lingua Technis — The most common and widely used language
- Hexamathic code[1]
- Noospheric Bleed[1]
- Novabyte[1]
Sources
- 1: Codex: Cult Mechanicus (7th Edition) — Temples of the Omnissiah
Imperium | Low Gothic • High Gothic • Cant Mechanicus • Sign Language |
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Chaos | Dark Tongue • Scrap Code |
Xenos | Ork • Eldar • Tau • Necron |