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Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue<br> | Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue<br> | ||
*lack of gutturals vs lack of labials | *lack of gutturals vs lack of labials | ||
*synthesis vs | *synthesis vs anathesis | ||
*words don't repeat vs words repeat | *words don't repeat vs words repeat | ||
*diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden | *diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden | ||
*only sonorants as coda vs | *only sonorants as free coda vs only stops as free coda | ||
*constraints | *constraints... | ||
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In Veno's Dark Tongue | In Veno's Dark Tongue | ||
''gog yoguguluk'' " | ''gog yoguguluk'' "X speaks" | ||
''yo-'' " | ''yo-'' "X" + ''-gu-'' [X] + ''-g-'' [X] +''-ul-'' [X] + ''-uk'' [X] | ||
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*Balardemea vs kalaradunga | *Balardemea vs kalaradunga | ||
Mixed Breed Dark Tongue: | |||
''gog yoguguluk dash'' /ɠɔɠ ɥoɠuɠuɠuluk daʃ/ | |||
Pure Breed Dark Tongue: | |||
''kꜣ̥k yꜣ̥kwkwlwk tsh'' /ƙħ̩ƙ ɥ̊ħ̩ƙʷƙʷlʷƙ tʃ/ | |||
Vocabulary drawn from the Lovecraft Mythos, Tolkien's Legendarium ... | Vocabulary drawn from the Lovecraft Mythos, Tolkien's Legendarium ... | ||
''rꜣlyẙh khlw̥hllw'' "city", '' | ''rꜣlyẙh khlw̥hllw'' "city", ''kl̥ rꜣ̥k'' "demon", ''ns̥k kw̥l'' "ghost", ''shw̥k nw̥kwrth'' "goat" | ||
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/jɪee̞ɛæa īi̯/ | |||
īy ay "the man", ī īnain "the mountain" | |||
A pure anathetic language would rather focus on the combinations of words than the words themselves (meaningless individually in this case): In Veno's Dark Tongue, associations strike as grammatical in zodrak hu "dog" versus hu zodrak "cat". | A pure anathetic language would rather focus on the combinations of words than the words themselves (meaningless individually in this case): In Veno's Dark Tongue, associations strike as grammatical in zodrak hu "dog" versus hu zodrak "cat". | ||
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Anathesis: In Portuguese, ''ca'' alone means nothing, as does ''sa'', yet ''casa'' means "house". Synthesis: In Latin, the particle ''-orum'' means not only [genitive], but also [plural] and [masculine]/[neuter]. Agglutination, on the other hand, is the neutral morphological nature. | Anathesis: In Portuguese, ''ca'' alone means nothing, as does ''sa'', yet ''casa'' means "house". Synthesis: In Latin, the particle ''-orum'' means not only [genitive], but also [plural] and [masculine]/[neuter]. Agglutination, on the other hand, is the neutral morphological nature. | ||
degrees of purity | degrees of purity | ||
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Bright languages are constructed languages often intended to be aesthetically pleasing, predictable, and phonologically stable. Examples are the elvish languages from J R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth.
Introduction
Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue
- lack of gutturals vs lack of labials
- synthesis vs anathesis
- words don't repeat vs words repeat
- diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden
- only sonorants as free coda vs only stops as free coda
- constraints...
The catch is that no Bright or Dark Tongue is fully understood. The former is far too complicated (though steady) to be learned by Men, while the latter is easily taught in vain, as its dialects change rapidly compared to a human's life span.
Dark tongues may access /ɥ/
K [associated with choking
P [associated with kissing
In Veno's Dark Tongue
gog yoguguluk "X speaks"
yo- "X" + -gu- [X] + -g- [X] +-ul- [X] + -uk [X]
sebeze paddaen adres nirdasbar vs zhogodosh kaktatona atrosh nurtaskara
ídrā naiaris "I was bitten by a serpent", siverae aebidis "I was bitten by a mosquito" ...
nazil "flower", naevalla "sword"
belep (nom) bellī (pl) albā (col)
bel (acc) parabel (pl) ambī (col)
elbī (gen) il (pl) pasadarvā (col)
vs
gog, gog-nagog
gogash, gog-nagogash
gogu, gog-nagogu
- Belep vs gog
- Balardemea vs kalaradunga
Mixed Breed Dark Tongue:
gog yoguguluk dash /ɠɔɠ ɥoɠuɠuɠuluk daʃ/
Pure Breed Dark Tongue:
kꜣ̥k yꜣ̥kwkwlwk tsh /ƙħ̩ƙ ɥ̊ħ̩ƙʷƙʷlʷƙ tʃ/
Vocabulary drawn from the Lovecraft Mythos, Tolkien's Legendarium ...
rꜣlyẙh khlw̥hllw "city", kl̥ rꜣ̥k "demon", ns̥k kw̥l "ghost", shw̥k nw̥kwrth "goat"
Laiberim
Ungrauzuru
Trizandir
Naevalla
If without D-equilibrium:
- Language rich in consonants and no vowels
- Language rich in vowels and no consonants
- Language rich in intersegmentals and no metasegmentals
wl̥krꜣn /w̥l̩krħn̥/, kl̥x /kl̩ks/, wr̥l /w̥r̩l/, kr̥kt /kr̩kt/, tn̥c /tn̩ts/, tn̥k /tn̩k/ nẙx /n̥ĭks/, lw̥kwky /l̥ŭkʷkʲ/, sꜣ̥t /sʕ̩t/.
/jɪee̞ɛæa īi̯/
īy ay "the man", ī īnain "the mountain"
A pure anathetic language would rather focus on the combinations of words than the words themselves (meaningless individually in this case): In Veno's Dark Tongue, associations strike as grammatical in zodrak hu "dog" versus hu zodrak "cat".
A pure magis-synthetic language focuses instead on words of a variety of meanings. In Veno's Bright Tongue, elbī is a genitive of "person".
Anathesis: In Portuguese, ca alone means nothing, as does sa, yet casa means "house". Synthesis: In Latin, the particle -orum means not only [genitive], but also [plural] and [masculine]/[neuter]. Agglutination, on the other hand, is the neutral morphological nature.
degrees of purity
important remark: anathesis is not that the components don't have meaning, but that the composition has a novel meaning because of them