| rdfs:comment | - Keiko O'Brien's classroom featured a chart depicting the English, the Bajoran, the Cardassian, and the Ferengi alphabets. The chart listed some sixty-plus Ferengi language symbols. (DS9: "The Nagus", "In the Hands of the Prophets", "Cardassians")
- The Ferengi language was the language spoken by the Ferengi people throughout the Ferengi Alliance. Ferengi written language branches out in several directions. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) Due to Ferenginar's damp climate, there were one hundred and seventy-eight words for "rain". Conversely, the Ferengi had no word for "crisp". (DS9 episode: "Let He Who Is Without Sin...", DS9 novel: The 34th Rule, DS9 - Mission Gamma novel: Twilight) There were fifty-seven separate words for "customer" in the language. One of them had a second definition, meaning "river sludge". (DS9 novel: The 34th Rule)
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| abstract | - The Ferengi language was the language spoken by the Ferengi people throughout the Ferengi Alliance. Ferengi written language branches out in several directions. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) Due to Ferenginar's damp climate, there were one hundred and seventy-eight words for "rain". Conversely, the Ferengi had no word for "crisp". (DS9 episode: "Let He Who Is Without Sin...", DS9 novel: The 34th Rule, DS9 - Mission Gamma novel: Twilight) There were fifty-seven separate words for "customer" in the language. One of them had a second definition, meaning "river sludge". (DS9 novel: The 34th Rule) "Frinx" was an expletive in the language and was used by Ferengi such as Quark, Nog, Base, Pharh, and Bralik. (DS9 novels: The Fall of Terok Nor, The War of the Prophets, Inferno, The Left Hand of Destiny; TTN novel: Orion's Hounds) The Ferengi had several words for "no", in Quark's words, "depending on how much negotiation it will take to change your mind." (DS9 novel: Time's Enemy) With their universal translators not working, Quark, Rom, and Nog spoke in the Ferengi language while on Earth in 1947. (DS9 episode: "Little Green Men") Also, the Ferengi boarding party in "ENT episode: "Acquisition"" speak their native language.
- Keiko O'Brien's classroom featured a chart depicting the English, the Bajoran, the Cardassian, and the Ferengi alphabets. The chart listed some sixty-plus Ferengi language symbols. (DS9: "The Nagus", "In the Hands of the Prophets", "Cardassians")
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