Verse:Angai

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Angai
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Angai (/ˈɑːŋgaɪ/; the name is from Dylathian ɂanggae) is a setting dominated by highly tonal languages.

Languages

(These are the major ones, we don't need any more)

  • Qwbmwdqwg: A tritonal root language
  • Irenesian languages
    • Kawenic
      • Quququqquq: A language with only /k u a/ and two tones
      • Tucootka
      • Tuatu'yat
      • Kawenyen
      • Sikorian
    • Ernic
      • Ernish (auzinim)
      • Whyastian (xʷivyaosdia)
    • Lhabhdwenic
      • Lhabhdweni
      • Dhasrawita
  • Akya-Woms languages: PAW is pretty much identical to PTS without final stress
  • Rieng-Chrâtt languages
    • Æ: Danish-inspired monosyllabic and tonal language
  • Kuam
  • Plairaewatthanayut
  • Anbirese
  • Dårle
  • Ditab: Tonal min-Tiberian Hebrew. Not a liturgical language.
  • Toki Ike
  • Ghalkian languages (not a family; Ghalki is just a register/emphaticness/palatalization heaven)
  • Whāso

Parts of Angai

  • Irenesia
  • Imrnga
  • Ghalki: Arabic heaven
  • Transsarnathia (provisional name): Sinosphere equivalent
    • A number of river valleys where the major tonal language families (the majority of them Æ, Zzean, and Cuam speakers) flourish
    • The Abyss
    • Dylathian Plateau
    • Sarnathian Mountains

Islands

  • Quqqaäan Isles
  • Fleiland (Counterpart to India?)
  • Qwbmwdqwg Island
  • Bjeheond
  • Nōwhere
  • New Fleiland