Verse:Hmøøh
Star system
Planet names in Phormatolidin: Sphytin, Alathoin, Phycodin, Chlorotricin (Hussmauch), Sterocythin, Tharofudin, Clypharin, Xantheromin
Planetary characteristics
1 HM year = 381.3668618 Earth days/357.0806527870906 HM days
1 HM day = 25.6323176 hours
86400
357 days = 51 7-day weeks
leap day every 12.3988275678 years
months: 30 30 30 29 30 30 30 29 30 30 30 29(30)
every 12 except: when the year is divisible by 372
perfect for clofabians
so the years 270, 520, 790, X40, 10E0, 1360, 1610, 1880, ... are not leap years
actually if the year is divisible by 130944=352*372 it's a leap year
Areas
Continents:
- Cuadhlabh
- "Talmic" area
- CW area
- Schrubstiempf
- "Conservative Pfeunic" area
- Wiebosphere proper
- "Broad-slender" area
- "SEA" area
- Where the Native American-esque languages live
- Bhadhagha Island (Literally read Irish gibs)
- Doreusigeul
Talma
Loanwords tend to come from:
- Science, law and administration: Old Netagin
- Music: Koine Netagin (esp. in music directions), Tíogall (tho more recent composers tend to use their own native language in directions)
- Other arts: Nurian
- Cuisine: Nurian
- (Modern) philosophy and literature: Nurian, Tíogall
Earlier lingua franca: Old Netagin
Later lingua franca: Tíogall (in fact it remained the lingua franca until quite recently, before the Internet after which Clofab took over)
Eastern Cuadhlabh
Loanwords tend to come from:
- Science, law and administration: Dodellian, Clofabosin
- Tech: Clofabosin
- Medicine: Clofabosin, Dodellian
- Music: Koine Netagin
- Cuisine: Plai Raew, Dodellian?
- (Modern) philosophy and literature: Dodellian, Clofabosin and Plai Raew
Southwestern Cuadhlabh
Loanwords tend to come from:
- Science, law and administration: Neckthai, Modern Tamil
- Music: Tamil
- Philosophy and literature: Neckthai
Northeastern Cuadhlabh
Wiebosphere
Loanwords tend to come from:
Naquosphere
Loanwords tend to come from:
- Science, law and administration: Classical Naquian and Tizian
- Music: Classical Naquian, Sjowaazheñ and Adetsib?
- Cuisine: Classical Naquian
- (Modern) philosophy and literature: Classical Naquian and Tizian
Language families of Modern Hussmauch
- Quihum languages
- Tie-Dye languages
- Maytyarri
- Naengic
- The "CW Complex"
- Clofabic
- Dodellic
- Belenic
- Wakanic
- Times New Italic
- Times New Roman
- Gulyás
- Raamaanujan
- Proto-Ladippic
- Tsrovesh
- Uupek
Programming languages
- Verbose language with Clofabosin keywords (Java + Python hybrid)
"if X": X sartan (sartan = "case, condition")
"for i in range(1,10)": (1,10) apidan gaptan i ibat (gloss: "(1,10) range member i DISTRIBUTIVE")
"while X": X otetan (otetan = "period of time")
- Functional language
- C analogue
Musical cultures
Logarithmic measure of intervals: exp(1/1728)
Eastern Cuadhlabh
Instruments
- spúith (Clofabosin: spiutin)
- ŋamsaí (Clofabosin: ingamsin)
- penicillin = a wind instrument
- ditoren = a string instrument
(a lot of overlap with Talmic music)
- organs played with an isomorphic keyboard
Tuning systems
Some "modern" composers experiment with tuning systems such as various EDOs and linear temperaments, especially higher-limit meantone.
Talma
Instruments
- spúith = plucked string instrument with sympathetic strings
- ŋamsaí = a 5-stringed bowed string instrument used for the treble register
- ŋamas (shd be an augmentative) = a ŋamsaí that's 1 octave lower
- mifgól = a slide flute
- jóghám = a zither
- tláim = a reed instrument
- fuíse = a drum
- seobh-áidhre = an isomorphic keyboard
A typical chamber ensemble:
- 2 ŋamsaíthe
- 1 ŋamas
...
Some "minimal" chambers:
- "String trio" or "string quartet": 2 ŋ + 1 Ŋ; 3 ŋ + 1 Ŋ
Tuning systems
- Older music uses 5, 7 limit JI scales (a variety of them; or free JI?)
- Culminates in 11 limit JI and temperaments (mostly as approximations to JI; perhaps also a "more prototypical" temperament like say 22edo).
- Scúdhainn defined the concept of linear temperaments and used some rank-2 temperaments for the first time in her musical œuvre. (Matrices were known by then! Also linear temperaments arise naturally from constant structures)
- Dekanies and eikosanies
Folk and popular music prefers "simpler" just scales:
- 6:7:8:9:10:11:12
- 5-/7-odd limit diamonds
- 1 3 5 7 hexany
Musical forms
- Art song settings of poems, with spúith or chamber accompaniment. Poems may deal with:
- Nature, idyllic settings
- Love
- Mystical themes
- A short dialogue
Notation
How can high-dimensional interval space x time be represented on two-dimensional paper?
Tempo markings and other staff directions are in Koine Netagin
Wiebosphere
Orchestras with metallophones/marimbas tuned to 15edo
Naquosphere
Religions, mysticism and philosophy
- Thensarian paganism
- Wiebian paganism
- Naquian paganism
- Clofabian paganism
- A more universalistic religion (in the same general cluster as Christianity or Mahayana Buddhism)
- Perhaps the former multiple gods coalesce into one God - instead of elimination of other gods in favor of one of them
- A person goes to a (potentially infinite?) chain of purgatories after they die - one's karma increases or reduces time served in purgatories
- Heaven exists, "hell" is when a soul spends indefinite time in purgatories
- Mysticism, with people drawing up tree structures of afterlives lol
People
Surnames are bolded.
needs more linguists!
Naquosphere
- Quēhtloyoz - ancient Naquian linguist, wrote the first detailed grammar on Hussmauch
- Huichaltzah - explored the Wiebosphere
- Wañbeeyiʼ - Sjowaazheñ poet
Wiebosphere
- Neumer Kait ("Neumer I.") - Ancient Wiebian queen
- Lobsang Ziefer - Wiebian general
- Tnehl Wotterstein - Wiebian composer
Cuadhlabh
Any Raamaanujan people???
- pseudo-Rocēdy - Cuadhlabhian (possibly Ladippic) mathematician, author of the Braochad Manuscript which is the first text to mention negative numbers, complex numbers and algebra
- Līccot Attiȝanaedā - Ladippic astronomer, developed the heliocentric model of planetary motion
- Snȳδiret Aecsārbe - Thensarian mathematician, who first approximated π to 96 base-12 places (~ 104 decimal places)
- Tōvaomerom - ancient Clofabic orator
- Báȝáš eth ham-Márótx - Netagin statesman and political theorist
- Fódhén fat-Tazrír - Netagin chemist, physicist
- ʔAmmúaħ far-Róthábh - Netagin tuning theorist
- Tungapinnaq - Raamaanujan mathematician
After two centuries of the Talman Dark Age brought about by a series of natural disasters and plagues...
- Gealta Sŋochtar - Tíogall-speaking existentialist philosopher
- Yakhef Batzaħ - Netagin physician who verified germ theory of disease
- Ngeyshi Meȝnof - Netagin physicist and mathematician who invented calculus
- Some Netagin composers (responsible for staff directions in Koine Netagin)
- Ġiakkiūrą Uffanasseh - Nurian artist and polymath
- Yamphotsaphidamchuerai Ativan - Clofabian lexicographer and novelist
- Arformoterol Ziagen - Clofabian mathematician
- Mabéas Leachra - Neoibhirian poet and novelist
- Demash eth ha-Heshtön - Netagin naturalist who discovered evolution
- Maedh Túil - A philosopher who invented utilitarianism
- Raichnís Faoinn - Duínidhean naturalist and composer, known for introducing the music of Doreusigeul to Cuadhlabh
- Aodhàn Càdlàg - Bhadhagha mathematician (real analyst)
- Cláidhe Aoilinnstéin - Phormatian-Clofabian mathematician; Càdlàg's student
- Sjameu Panzux - Xaetjeon linguist, reconstructed Proto-Talmic
- Zarbía Scúdhainn - Duínidhean algebraist, number theorist, tuning theorist and composer
- Eodhal Baesj - Xaetjeon mathematician, a student of Scúdhainn
- Stearras Salmatar - Duínidhean inventor
- Sabúra Cnaeighreán - Neoibhirian botanist and plant breeder
Modern
- Some Clofab guy who formalizes computation
- Progesterol Mifeprex - Clofabian chemist who invented birth control pill
- Colesterol Lipitor - Clofabian dietitian
- Picumeterol Crestor - Clofabian actor and comedian
- Lüpeng Zao - Reber Wiebian poet
- Schlomo Schngellstein - Trâi conlanger, creator of Verse:Hussmauch/Earth. He's a real dork.