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chakobsa

(bhotani jib) The so-called "magnetic language" derived in part from the ancient Bhotani (Bhotani Jib –jib meaning dialect). A collection of ancient dialects modified by needs of secrecy, but chiefly the hunting language of the Bhotani, the hired assassins of the first Wars of Assassins.


In his 1965 novel Dune, Frank Herbert named a fictional language, Chakobsa, after the Caucasian hunting language of the same name. However, the samples of this invented language which Herbert uses in the Dune series of novels are actually a mixture of the Romani language, Serbo-Croatian, and various Arabic terms.

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