Spoken Dendish has many different dialects with low mutual intelligibility, varying by location. Words mostly alternate between hard-sounding consonants and brief, lightly-voiced vowels.

Though there is some variance in the spelling of certain words, and each dialect has its own slang terms, most written Dendish can be understood by all speakers. Individual letters combine to form single characters representing more complex sounds. Word order is largely unimportant.

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  Kxashtin: A solution used in Alchemy to sweeten the smell of bitter ingredients


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  Xahit: Literally "fur paint"; a sort of tattoo performed by canin Atherians that involves injecting dye into fur follicles in a way that causes the fur to later grow in a different color