Catari (Language)

Catari is an olden language used specifically by cats, nekos, and some species of wolf or dog. One character most noted that is able to speak this language is Johnathon Black. This language has mostly been forgotten, and is rarely spoken by anyone, so thus it is not easy to be translated or taught. However, Johnathon has tried teaching this language to Kelsey with only slight difficulty. Because of this, now there is more than one person who can figure out the meaning behind some of the olden books in Gabriella's Bookstore, some of which are written in Catari.

Catari is only used by people who know what everything means and how to write it, and it is often used to conceal secret information that no normal mortal is supposed to know.

Cities of Catari
There are some small cities and camps that still speak this language.

One of these cities is the city of Hollowheart, the city of which Zara has lived for refugee since the War of Morning Kingdoms under the name of Hailey Hicks. It is a small city in the Hitaro region, just a few miles away from the city of Morningwood.

There is also a city named Catari, which is a city in the Shay'Temoir region. It is ruled by Merryweather Jays. It is mostly a place where books that are written in the Catari language are kept. Merryweather fiercely guards these books, because they contain hidden information about the Shadows of Seven that only people of the region are supposed to know of, rather than outsiders.

Forbidden
Catari is a language that has been used by these people since its creation thousands of years ago. Despite that it is mostly forgotten, some schools and private scholars still teach this language even though it has been forbidden in some cities where it is taught. The reason for it being forbidden is because there are so many secretive, ancient books full of top secret information that shouldn't be learned by young children who are trying to speak this language.

Trivia

 * Catari was the name of a tribe belonging to the Venetic peoples that are sometimes confused with Illyrians.
 * Catari may have been inspired by the extinct Indo-European language Venetic. Because Catari is a mostly forgotten and olden language, some people believe of it to be extinct. Those people are the ones that don't know of the many books that contain its writing, and people who don't even know of the people that even speak the language, or had once before.
 * Johnathon was the first person confirmed to speak this language. Another possibility is Zara, whom of which is the sister of Johnathon, because she lives in a city that has Catari as a native language.
 * Liciten is the only character in the series whose name means something in Catari. Her name means 'Privacy.'