Uulam (pronounced OOH-lam) is a language spoken by the various tribes of Uulam. The language also sees some use in nearby Akatzar, Masin, and Maukra, but it is not the primary tongue in any of these three regions. While often considered a single language, the various dialects of Uulam can differ significantly from each other, as speakers of the language live across an almost three thousand mile wide territory and often with quite a degree of isolation from each other.
Uulam has a complex system of animacy, with each noun categorized by its complexity of thought. Most speakers consider there to be three fundamental levels, with some variation and sublevels. Nouns referring to subjects like people, spirits, animals, and trees occupy the highest level, followed by those referring to natural but not sentient phenomena like water or weather, followed finally by anything non-natural and non-thinking like houses, tools, and so on.