Belter's Cant
Words and expressions
"Acima" = Up/towards the outer skin of a station or ship (Portuguese)
"Ámolof" = Love (noun)
"Audi" = Hear
"Beltalowda" = Us belters or belonging to the Belters
"Belówt" = Blood
"Beratna" = Brother
"Bodzha" = Explosion (Chinese)
"Copain/Copeng" = Friend (French)
"Chapeau" = Hat (French)
"Coyo" = Guy, person
"Dangsin-eun junbiga?” = Are you ready? (Korean)
"Desh tim detim mang im mowsh leva sif xox" = There is a time when a man must stand up
"Du towsh bik" = To smile (lit. to make your teeth big)
"Dui" = True (Chinese)
"Ereluf" = Air
"Felota" = Floating
"Gonya" = Going to/will be
"Gútegow" = Ready, prepared, set "Da Rosi im gútegow xitim!" (English. "Good to go")
“Hoy" = Hey, hello
"Ido" = Dock, exit, out
"Im" - he/him, she/her, it
"Imbobo" = Room, Apartment (Zulu)
"Inyalowda" = Inners/Non-belters
"Kaka" = Shit/Excrement
"Kaka felota" = Floating Shit, used as an equivalent to "bullshit" (since there are no bulls in space)
"Ke" = Forms a yes/no question if used at the end of a sentence, can be combined to make other question words as seen below
"Keting" = What
"Kemang" = Who
"Ketim" = When
"Ken" = I understand (from Dutch kennen, to know)
"Kennst" = You understand (see above)
"Keya" = Right?/Isn't that so?
"Kowlmang" = Everyone/Everybody. (as in Kowlmang, gotta die sometime)
"Kowlting" = Everything
"Ji-ral" = Bullshit (Korean)
"La" = No (Arabic)
"Leta go fongi fode" = To arrest, (or in this case, kidnap)
"Mali" = Little
"Mi" - I/me
"Milowda" = We/Us
“Mit?” = Do you want to come with me? (German)
"Na" = No/Not
"Na khorocho" = Not good (Russian)
"Nichts" = Nothing (German)
"Orbas" = Eyes
"Owkwa" = Water
"Que si?" = Right? (Spanish)
"Pagal" = Crazy
"Pampaw" = Grandfather
"Pashang" = Expletive, from Chinese 爬上, "to mount."
"Paxoniski" = Short person, (an insult), from Spanish 'bajo' and Polish 'niski'
"Paxopigi" = An even stronger insult for a short person
"Pomang" = Martian, Duster. From Portuguese 'pó' (dust) and English 'man'.
"Pow" = Now
"Sa"= So
"Sasa ke" = Do you know? "Sasa ke which side you're on?"
"Sabe" = You know (Spanish/Portuguese)
"Sabez" = I know
"Sa-sa" = To know [about] (Possibly derived from Sabe/z?)
"Sabaka" = Belter swear (from Russian собака, or dog)
"Sefesowng" = Safe
"Setara" = Star
"Schlauch" = Transit tube (German)
"Sif" = Yourself
"Spin" = Spinward, in the direction of a station or ship's rotation
"Tékiting eletisi" = electronics
"Tenye wa yitim gut!" = Happy New Year!
"To" = You
"Tolowda" = You (plural)/You all
"Toda" = All (Spanish/Portuguese)
"Towchu" = Slave (From Mandarin 驮畜 - tuó chù "beast of burden")
"Tumang" = Earther (From Chinese 土 tǔ meaning earth + English man)
"Unokabátya" = Cousin (Hungarian, means older male cousin)
“Üzgün" = Sorry (Turkish)
"Well wala" = A belter obsessed with the inner planets, or, less literally, "traitor to your people" ('well' as in gravity well, 'wala' is Hindi)
"Xetamang tili du xeta" = Haters gonna hate (Where x is pronounced like the j in Spanish)
"Xia na pelesh to" = "This isn't your place"
"Yáterash" = Under thrust
"Zakomeng" = Police officer, cop
All information taken from the Expanse wiki
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