Atreidean Form The Fremen, the desert-dwelling tribes of Arrakis, remnants of the Zensunni Wanderers, spoke a language which reveals a portion of then- troubled history Fremen legend had it that their original homeworld was Pontrui third planet of Fpsilon Alangue even if this were not known to be untrue, clues from their language and religion would point to Sol UI, Terra, at, being an even ediuer bite of Zensunni occupation, in fact their original homeland Some of this evidence is found m the ancient Terran religion Islam which beginning around the eleventh millennium B G went through several major as well as minor upheavals and revitalizations (see Lors Karden s A Hmorv of the Third Islamic Movement [Salusa Secundus Morgan and Sharak]), exemplified by the mixture of Sunni and Zen mysticisms embodied in the teachings of Maometh (the Third Muhammed ') from which the Zensunni broke away about 1381 B G be ginning their long route of planetary migra tions The Fremen language can be traced to the ancient Terran language Arabiya which the linguist '1 Taahbu believes to have originally been the official tongue of the Islamic faith, an observation supported by the traditional lore of the Sayyadmas (Iracmg the Tongues of Man Vol IV The Sinus Sector [Yorba VI Rose]) The Fremen language differs greatly from the official Galach of the Old Impenum despite then- both demonstrating Terran roots Both were from entirely different Imguisuc and cultural stocks That the stock of Galach represented the technologically and economically dominant culture of the time is evidenced by the status of Galach as the standard of the Old Impenum while the Fremen tongue, up to the Lime of Paul Muad'Dib, was the tongue of a persecuted people Phonology Fremen retained (or more accurately, recaptured) many of the early Arabic sounds These include the labials b f, and m the dentals / th (0), d dh (6), and n the sibilants i z and sh (), the affricate j (j), the velars k and g (which very often can be