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Include some sound change laws conditioned by PIE glottalization? Some Uralic gradation-like thing? | Include some sound change laws conditioned by PIE glottalization? Some Uralic gradation-like thing? | ||
Make it less Inuit-sounding and more Celtic-sounding, and include more actual Inuit loanwords? | |||
The Qivattu use two different calendar systems: a solar calendar based on the summer solstice and a lunar calendar based on the synodic month. In modern times only the first is used. | The Qivattu use two different calendar systems: a solar calendar based on the summer solstice and a lunar calendar based on the synodic month. In modern times only the first is used. | ||
The ancient Qivattu solar calendar was an observational one which relied on the position of the sun as measured at Stonehenge. No attempt was made to divide the year into solar months. | The ancient Qivattu solar calendar was an observational one which relied on the position of the sun as measured at Stonehenge. No attempt was made to divide the year into solar months. | ||
==Names== | ==Names== | ||