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-Bright languages are constructed languages often intended to be aesthetically pleasing, predictable, and phonologically stable. Examples are the elvish languages from J R. R. Tolkien's [[w:Middle-earth|Middle-earth]].
+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
+*lack of gutturals vs lack of labials ex. bel vs gog
-*synthesis vs agglutination
+*synthesis vs anathesis
-*words don't repeat vs words repeat
+*sounds don't repeat in the syllable ex. Bel
 *diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden
-*only sonorants as coda vs anything as coda except sonorants
+*only sonorants as free coda vs only stops as free coda
-*constraints
+*constraints...
-'''The catch is that no Bright or Dark Tongue is fully understood. The former is far too complicated (though steady) to be learned by Men, while the latter is easily taught in vain, as its dialects change rapidly compared to a human's life span.'''
+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
-Dark tongues may access /ɥ/
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 In Veno's Dark Tongue
-''gog yoguguluk'' "the man speaks to me about them"
+''gog yoguguluk'' "X speaks"
-''yo-'' "speak" + ''-gu-'' [first person] + ''-g-'' [epenthetic particle] +''-ul-'' [third person] + ''-uk'' [generic person]
+''yo-'' "X" + ''-gu-'' [X] + ''-g-'' [X] +''-ul-'' [X] + ''-uk'' [X]
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 *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  ...
-rleh "city", kthullu "god", galrog "demon", nazg "ring", gul "ghost", shug "goat", nugurath "black",
+''rꜣlyẙh khlw̥hllw'' "city", ''kl̥ rꜣ̥k'' "demon", ''ns̥k kw̥l'' "ghost", ''shw̥k nw̥kwrth'' "goat"
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 Trizandir
 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==