Verse:Hmøøh/Txapoalli

Txapoalli (English: /tʃɑːpoʊˈɑːli/ chah-poh-AH-lee, Naquian: Txapoalli /tʃapoˈalːi/; Eevo: Nyçís) is a large continent in Tricin. It contains (at least) two cultural regions, which are quite different:

• Naquosphere
• Sjowaazhosphere
• !Zoom Islands

Names

The Eevo name Nycís probably derives from a form of Naquiz, borrowed through Windermere.

Languages

TODO: more languages.

Language families, to the extent they can be reconstructed:

• Tsimulh
  • Hetomic
• Quihum
  • Naquian
    • Tizian
  • Sjowaazhic
    • Sjowaazheñ
  • Apple PIE
  • Zoom-Foo
    • Primitive Zoom
      • !Zoom (not part of Mainland Txapoalli)
    • Derkha (Pseudo-Sanskrit)
      • Pseudo-Sanskrito-Thai
• Tzaloxic
  • Trây
  • Tzaloxian
  • Pradjuul
  • Backwards Khmer gib

Idea for Sjowaazhosphere: "Sinosphere languages recast as Native American languages", steal from Semitic languages too

• Mandarin: Sjowaazh (Quihum)
• Cantonese: Something related to Sjowaazh (Quihum)
• Vietnamese: Trây
• Korean: Old "Geulic Tamil" idea (Naquic)
• Khmer: Tzaloxian
• Tibetan: Initial Salishy clusters (Naquic)
• Burmese: Register tones, glottalized resonants (Naquic?)
• Japanese: CV-heavy language (Nizutsam, thus Clofabic?)
• Thai: Sanskrito-Thai gib (~ Quihum)
• Mongolian: Weird asymmetrical inventory (Quihum)

Common grammatical features:

• Rich politeness/honorific system (especially Quihum)
• Bantu-style noun classes (especially Tsimulh-Naquic)
• Active-stative-ish tendencies (Tzaloxic)
• Relational nouns
• Head-marking tendency

Music

Main article: Verse:Tricin/Txapoalli/Music

Historical figures

• Quēhtłoyoz - Naquian grammarian
• Huichaltzah - Naquian explorer, conlanger and playwright
• Mauaz nah Païxa - Tzaloxian explorer

Religion

Sjowaazheñ

Jotting down ideas

Sjowaazheñ religion is Basically Buddhism but more proselytizing. They apply the concept of karma and reincarnation to the world collectively in addition to individual humans. That's how the world itself began and ended many times; if humanity collectively behaves badly enough, an apocalypse will come due to the accrued karmic debt and a new universe will arise from the ashes. [I'm not going to use exactly these terms - it's not exactly a "relex" of Buddhism.]

Karma/sin and payoffs - The genius of Christianity is to subvert this (in a really twisted way, perhaps)

Places

• Tui-Faäni/Uānithazza - ancient capital of Naquian Empire
• Shjhedaad = capital of Sjowaazh