Originally a dialect of Frethurn, Ossein has evolved into a language all its own. Most words have been trimmed down for efficiency, and stops are much more common than other consonants.

Ossein's written form was intentionally crafted by a mortuExan scholar, who designed it to be as easy to learn as possible in the absence of the same inherent sense of community found among the other exan subspecies. Each letter represents a sound, with no contextual differences – one can easily pronounce something "how it's spelled" without ever being wrong.

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  Olu: neutral greeting; "hello"