Dwarnglish

Dwarnglish is a Dwarnian-English pidgin language used on Neuzo.

According to Brian, Dwarnglish was "only ever spoken on Neuzo". It was used in limited contexts by shopkeepers, vendors, smugglers, and mafiosos. The mafia were particularly protective of it, and few linguists have studied it due to the danger associated with trying.

After escaping from New Jupiter, the crew of the Iris II received a message from Other Violet, with a recording that she had received anonymously. It was a conversation in Dwarnglish that Brian and McCabe decoded to reveal that it was an arms deal between a Dwarnian and a human, of at least 3,000 guns to be sent to Telemachus.

Structure
Dwarnglish is a blend of English and Standard Exo-Dwarnian. Brian describes it as "pretty situational," relying frequently on gestures and facial expressions. Verbs do not appear to conjugate by person or tense, and tend to occur at the beginning of sentences. Nouns do not have plural forms. Words for numbers are derived from the English, and some English terms have entered Dwarnglish as nouns (ex. gun) and likely as pronouns (ex. wi and yal), and some Dwarnian words as adjectives (ex. Dwarnian dwajjha "good, happy, blessed" to Dwarnglish dwasha-dwasha). Both languages appear to have contributed verbs.

Though described and constructed as a pidgin, in practice it appears to be used more as a thieves' cant or argot. Neither an English-speaker or a Dwarnian-speaker were able to understand it, suggesting that it includes coded vocabulary in addition to its construction as a pidgin, such as referring to Eagan Orientation coordinates as "echo-oss" from "Echo-Oscar".

Behind the Scenes
Jessica Best commissioned "a linguistics person" to create several sentences of an "impenetrable-to-outsiders" pidgin for use in season 2, in order to accurately portray what a Dwarnglish pidgin might sound like.