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Bright languages are constructed languages intended to be aesthetically pleasing.
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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/


==Phonology==
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
 
 
If without D-equilibrium:
*Language rich in consonants and no vowels
*Language rich in vowels and no consonants


===Sound Laws===
*Language rich in intersegmentals and no metasegmentals


-l -r
''wl̥krꜣn'' /w̥l̩krħn̥/, ''kl̥x'' /kl̩ks/, ''wr̥l'' /w̥r̩l/, ''kr̥kt'' /kr̩kt/, ''tn̥c'' /tn̩ts/, ''tn̥k'' /tn̩k/ ''nẙx'' /n̥ĭks/, ''lw̥kwky'' /l̥ŭkʷkʲ/, ''sꜣ̥t'' /sʕ̩t/.


a e i


val, var
/jɪee̞ɛæa īi̯/


bel
īy ay "the man", ī īnain "the mountain"


arda alba
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".


albabel
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".


bel
[a > e > i] or [i > e > a]
vāl, vār
val > berdë (*var)
alba-val > albabelë
silma-val > silmemalë


rd
rn
rs




velar stops such as /k/ are problematic, therefore
/ku/ will inevitably change to /kʷ/ and /b/
as /ki/ will inevitably lead to /sʲ/ and /ʃ/


C̥VC(C)
CvoicelessVC(C)voicedV


===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==
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===Morphophonology===


==Morphology==




===Sound Laws===


==Syntax==
==Syntax==