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-Bright languages are constructed languages intended to be aesthetically pleasing, predictable, and stable in utterance.
+Bright languages are constructed languages often intended to be aesthetically pleasing, predictable, and phonologically stable.
+==Introduction==
-==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"
+Laiberim
+Ungrauzuru
+Trizandir
+Naevalla
-==Phonology==
-The bright version of Adamic has 3 vowels (4 with the diphthong) and 8 consonants, with the reason being that as a bright language strives to contain the most stable and distinct phonetic features, many possibilities are consciously deleted (mostly dorsal ones). For example, velar stops such as /k/ are problematic, as forms akin to /ku/ and /ki/ have the tendence to inevitably change to /kʷ/~/b/ or /kʲ/~/t͡ʃ/. Likewise, back vowels are totally erased, not only to contrast with dark tongues (which do not accept front vowels), but to avoid the sound change /du/ > /dʷ/~/b/.
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+If without D-equilibrium:
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+*Language rich in consonants and no vowels
-! style="width: 66px; " |Coronal
+*Language rich in vowels and no consonants
-! style="width: 66px; " |Labial
-|-
-! Sonorant
-| l r
-| n m
-|-
-! Non-Sonorant
-| ʃ d
-| f b
-|}
-The
+*Language rich in intersegmentals and no metasegmentals
-{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 198px; text-align:center;"
+''wl̥krꜣn'' /w̥l̩krħn̥/, ''kl̥x'' /kl̩ks/, ''wr̥l'' /w̥r̩l/, ''kr̥kt'' /kr̩kt/, ''tn̥c'' /tn̩ts/, ''tn̥k'' /tn̩k/ ''nẙx'' /n̥ĭks/, ''lw̥kwky'' /l̥ŭkʷkʲ/, ''sꜣ̥t'' /sʕ̩t/.
-! style="width: 66px; " |
-! style="width: 66px; " |Front
-! style="width: 66px; " |Center
-|-
-!
-| i ɛ
-| a ae̯
-|}
-===Sound Laws===
-Common Elvish
+/jɪee̞ɛæa īi̯/
-*If two bordering syllables/syllable portions possess the same consonant, the consonant of the weakest syllable (portion) disappears.<br>
+īy ay "the man", ī īnain "the mountain"
-EX: Adamic  ''vāl'' "person" and ''vār'' "people" become ''alf'' (not''*falf'') and ''elvi''  .<br>
-*Assimilation:
+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".
-*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 + f -lb [extension of l]<br>
-r/l + c -rd [extension of r]<br>
-r/l + m = -lm [extension of m]<br>
-r/l + n = -rn [extension of n]<br>
-*/s/ and /d/ can only happen before /a/, and if the opposite were to happen, the nucleus would be dropped.
-alba "people" [alf, elbi]
+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".
-arda "things" [arc, irida]
-alma "high faculties" [a, elmi]
-arna "emotions, sensations" [an, erni]
-amba "time" [amf, embi]
-anda "space" [anc, inida]
--
-endar "land", arni "lands"
-embal "celestial body", ambeli...
-NA > ni [0], nae [1]
-alba enir
-ni, pe, ae
-MA
-NA
-PA
-TA
-LA
-RA
--
-ALBA
-ARDA
-AMBA
-ANDA
-ALMA
-ARNA
-iru > eri > ere
-anu > ni
-===Consonants===
-===Vowels===
-===Prosody===
-====Stress====
-====Intonation====
-===Phonotactics===
+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.
-<!-- 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==
+degrees of purity
-The Bright Tongue is mostly composed of stems, which modify roots.
-ni irida eren...
+important remark: anathesis is not that the components don't have meaning, but that the composition has a novel meaning because of them
-From one root, many stems are forged
+==Phonology==
-ncl > ner (*nendir), cilba, arnic, nalbi (*nadelbi)...
-ALMA > ELEME
-eldar (alba-endar)
-erbal (arda-elbar)
-arbelë
-ilben, ilbini
-eleben, af
-lef, felin
-ilmen, ilmini
-elemen, am
-lem, melin
-irdem, irdimi
+===Sound Laws===
-eredem, erc
-rec, cerin
 ==Syntax==