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Bright languages are constructed languages often intended to be aesthetically pleasing, predictable, and phonologically stable | Bright languages are constructed languages often intended to be aesthetically pleasing, predictable, and phonologically stable. | ||
==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
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 ex. bel vs gog | ||
*synthesis vs | *synthesis vs anathesis | ||
* | *sounds don't repeat in the syllable ex. Bel | ||
*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... | ||
Dark tongues may access /ɥ/ | 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 | |||
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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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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" | |||
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Trizandir | Trizandir | ||
Naevalla | 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 | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||