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Corvans invented wheels shortly after they evolved and then spread all over the world in just a few millennia. | Corvans invented wheels shortly after they evolved and then spread all over the world in just a few millennia. | ||
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Corvan spoken language uses both the syrinx and the tongue. Since they have no lips and no teeth they cannot make labial or dental sounds. However, they can do a lot with their syrinxes and even produce two vocal tones simultaneously. | Corvan spoken language uses both the syrinx and the tongue. Since they have no lips and no teeth they cannot make labial or dental sounds. However, they can do a lot with their syrinxes and even produce two vocal tones simultaneously. | ||
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** some languages use simple JI ratios as suprasegmental phonemes | ** some languages use simple JI ratios as suprasegmental phonemes | ||
=== Sign language === | |||
Corvan sign languages mainly use tongue, wings, beaks, and feet. | |||
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Revision as of 10:18, 27 January 2021
A placeholder for a future Earth setting where humans have gone extinct and ravens have taken our place.
Background
- Humans wiped out
- An asteroid wipes out the remaining great apes
- When do the corvans evolve?
About the corvans
Corvans are a species of giant flightless birds (descended from present-day ravens) who use language and manipulate tools with their beaks and tongues, dextrous feet and adapted wings. They speak using their highly developed syrinxes.
They're just small enough to glide and fly short distances while carrying objects. Their leg muscles thickened because of a need to carry light cargo.
Corvans invented wheels shortly after they evolved and then spread all over the world in just a few millennia.
Vocal language
Corvan spoken language uses both the syrinx and the tongue. Since they have no lips and no teeth they cannot make labial or dental sounds. However, they can do a lot with their syrinxes and even produce two vocal tones simultaneously.
- non-tonal languages
- monotonal languages
- bitonal languages
- some languages use simple JI ratios as suprasegmental phonemes
Sign language
Corvan sign languages mainly use tongue, wings, beaks, and feet.