Cant Mechanicus
From Warhammer 40k - Lexicanum
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 without augmented physiology. Many Tech-Priests have their jaws and throats altered, to better speak languages that were designed only for cogitators to use.[1][4]
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. Much of these languages have words and even entire grammatical structures missing, eroded by the entropy of millennia or corrupted by scrapcode.[1][4]
Known Languages of the Cant Mechanicus
- Binharic[4]
- Lingua Technis[4]
- Hexad[3]
- Hexamathic code[1][4]
- Noospheric Bleed[1][4]
- Novabyte[1][4]
- Skit-code[2]
Sources
- 1: Codex: Cult Mechanicus (7th Edition) — Temples of the Omnissiah
- 2: Dominion Genesis (Novel), Misery's Daughter, Chapter 2
- 3: Penitent (Novel), Chapter 26
- 4: Codex: Adeptus Mechanicus (8th Edition), pg. 19
| Imperium | Low Gothic • High Gothic • Cant Mechanicus • Sign Language |
|---|---|
| Chaos | Dark Tongue • Scrap Code |
| Xenos | Ork • Eldar • Hrud • Tau • Necron • Squat |
