Verse:Hmøøh/Raiðluav

Cualuav is, for now, a placeholder for Trician continents that were uninhabited until modern times. Nowadays Cualuav is dominated by speakers of Eevo and a few other major Trician languages such as Windermere. Cualuav is located roughly opposite Etalocin, Talma, Txapoalli and Bjeheond. (This is mostly to isolate Cualuav from every other continent)

History

Cualuav was discovered by the Skellans, the Windermere, and the Anvirese who quickly populated the coastal area and founded Fyxoom.

Countries

todo: more countries

• Fyxoom is the largest country in Cualuav.
• multilingual country (Anbirese, Häskä, Nurian)
• an Anbirese-speaking country
• Häskä, Anbirese, Qenian, Windermere colonies

Music

Shalian music

Almost nothing is known of early Shalian music from primary sources, although Shalian oral tradition holds that Old Shalian songs were sung in large groups or in solo falsetto singing (à la Peking opera), as if to call upon the gods or to prepare the spirit for battle.

The most distinctive and well-known style of Modern Shalian music is heavily syncopated rhythmic choral music.

Instruments

Shalian music is dominated by vocal music. The Shalians do not play instruments at all except for some percussion, and even those can often be substituted by vocalizing clicks and beatbox sounds.

Tuning

Shalian music is based on the standard pentatonic scale, although intonational pitch bends are used like in barbershop quartet music.

Terms

Calque from British musical terms

• note length names: breve, semibreve, crotchet, quaver, semiquaver, ...

Nurian music

The most well-known Nurian instrument is probably the aġġiakkātą [ædʒdʒækˈkaːtˠãː], a pasta guitar-like instrument with a bridge to separate two rows of strings that are an octave apart. Common models have 21 strings (folk), 29 strings (classical) or 37 strings (deluxe).

Some tunings for aġġiakkātai:

• 1/1 11/10 6/5 5/4 11/8 3/2
• 1/1 25/24 7/6 5/4 7/5 3/2
• 1/1 21/20 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 10/7 3/2
• 441/440 tempered out: 1/1 21/20 11/10 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 11/8 10/7 3/2
• hexanic: 1/1 21/20 35/32 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 48/35 10/7 3/2
• major: 1/1 25/24 7/6 6/5 5/4 7/5 35/24 3/2
• minor: 1/1 25/24 15/14 6/5 5/4 9/7 75/56 3/2
• augmented: 1/1 15/14 7/6 5/4 9/7 35/24 3/2
• the 29 string model: 1/1 21/20 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 10/7 3/2 or 1/1 25/24 7/6 6/5 5/4 7/5 35/24 3/2
• the 37 string model: 1/1 21/20 35/32 8/7 6/5 5/4 21/16 48/35 10/7 3/2 or 1/1 25/24 15/14 7/6 6/5 5/4 9/7 7/5 35/24 3/2