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-Bright languages are constructed languages intended to be aesthetically pleasing, predictable, and stable in utterance.
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+Bright languages are constructed languages often intended to be aesthetically pleasing, predictable, and phonologically stable.
 ==Introduction==
+Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue<br>
+*lack of gutturals vs lack of labials ex. bel vs gog
+*synthesis vs anathesis
+*sounds don't repeat in the syllable ex. Bel
+*diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden
+*only sonorants as free coda vs only stops as free coda
+*constraints...
+Dark tongues may access /ɥ/
+ple pel lep elp
+tra tar rat art
+āmps ambi abe bel ela ilba psā (amba alba)
+ānts andi ade dar era irda tsā (anta arda)
+belep, bellat
+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)<br>
+bel (acc) parabel (pl) ambī (col)<br>
+elbī (gen) il (pl) pasadarvā (col)<br>
+vs
+gog, gog-nagog<br>
+gogash, gog-nagogash<br>
+gogu, gog-nagogu<br>
+*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"
-==Phonology==
-vowels and 8 consonants.
+Laiberim
+Ungrauzuru
+Trizandir
+Naevalla
-===Sound Laws===
+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
-*Voicing: consonants between vowels are voiced.
+''wl̥krꜣn'' /w̥l̩krħn̥/, ''kl̥x'' /kl̩ks/, ''wr̥l'' /w̥r̩l/, ''kr̥kt'' /kr̩kt/, ''tn̥c'' /tn̩ts/, ''tn̥k'' /tn̩k/ ''nẙx'' /n̥ĭks/, ''lw̥kwky'' /l̥ŭkʷkʲ/, ''sꜣ̥t'' /sʕ̩t/.
-*Devoicing: initial and final consonants are voiceless.
-*Lenition: if two bordering syllables/syllable portions possess the same consonant, the consonant of the weakest syllable (portion) disappears.<br>
-EX: The Adamic or Babelic forms ''vāl'' "person" and ''vār'' "people" become ''alp'' and ''elbë'' respectively in the Bright Tongue [''alp'' instead of ''*palp''].<br>
-*Assimilation:
-alba-alp > albabelë; silma-alp > silmemalë; ...
-*Harmony: [a > e > i] or [i > e > a]<br>
-*Mutation: consonants extend grade until there is only one.<br>
-m/n + p -mb [extension of p]<br>
-m/n + t -nd [extension of t]<br>
-r/l + p -lb [extension of l]<br>
-r/l + t -rd [extension of r]<br>
-r/l + m = -lm [extension of m]<br>
-r/l + n = -rn [extension of n]<br>
-*/t/ can only happen before /a/ and/or /ə/.
-Because final consonants are easily lost in Typology, /r/ /l/ /m/ and /n/ always mutate
-C̥VC̬VC̥
+/jɪee̞ɛæa īi̯/
-anë
+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".
-[the dorsal column was deleted and the distinction of voice lost] ...plus, m and n are added and f and s lost
+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".
-m, l, p, b
-n, r, t, d
-alma > almi > ilmi
-ilmi nae
-ilmi tae
-ilmi ae
-alba "people" [alp, elbë]
-arda "things" [art, erdë]
-alma "high faculties" [al, elmë]
-arna "emotions, sensations" [ar, ernë]
-amba "time" [amp, embë]
-anda "space" [ant, endë]
--
-andar (anda + arda/alba) "land~kingdom", anderë "lands"
-ambal (amba + arda/alba) "celestial body~god", ambelë...
-endar
-tirya
-arni, ernyë
-Velar stops such as /k/ are problematic, therefore removed. Palatalization /ku/ for example has the tendence to inevitably change to /kʷ/ and /b/, whereas /ki/ will lead to /t͡ʃi/ and /ʃi/.
-Back vowels are totally erased, to contrast with dark tongues, plus to avoid the sound change /du/ > /dʷ/ > /b/
-===Consonants===
+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
-===Vowels===
+important remark: anathesis is not that the components don't have meaning, but that the composition has a novel meaning because of them
-===Prosody===
-====Stress====
-====Intonation====
-===Phonotactics===
+==Phonology==
-<!-- Explain the consonant clusters and vowel clusters that are permissible for use in the language. For example, "st" is an allowed consonant cluster in English while onset "ng" isn't. -->
-===Morphophonology===
-==Morphology==
+===Sound Laws===
 ==Syntax==