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Crowverse is a hypothetical future evolution of Earth dominated by sapient flightless descendants of present-day crows (called "corvins"). Corvins have larger bodies and larger heads than our crows, which caused them to lose flight and gave them more bulky shoulders and a more upright stance.

Language

Most corvin languages are highly tonal; in one language, pitch differences between syllables within a word are phonemic. Nontonal languages rely on vocal register and syrinx articulations.

Their words for language often come from 'syrinx' or 'linguistic tone'

Music

Corvin music tends to emphasize harmony, rhythm and timbre much more than melody, which most corvins consider a part of language instead. Much of corvin music is based on chord-scale theory. In songs, the melody is considered part of the lyrics and is in the chord-scale the music is currently in (most passerine languages are tonal and some even require producing two notes at once). Corvin music uses many kinds of inharmonic timbres (many more than human music) as well as harmonic ones.

• Most early recorded corvin musical traditions are overtone singing and other timbral singing traditions demanding the various timbral nuances the corvin syrinx is capable of.
• Primodality: Corvins use primodality to impart colors to chord-scales and sung dyad phonemes.
• There is also a culture that uses soundscapes made by non-ji/inharmonic/pseudo-JI chords.