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, tho more recent composers tend to use their own native language in directions)
- Other arts: Nurian
- Cuisine: Nurian
- (Modern) philosophy and literature: Nurian, Tíogall
Eastern Cuadhlabh
Loanwords tend to come from:
- Science, law and administration: Dodellian, Clofabosin
- Tech: Clofabosin
- Music: Koine Netagin (esp. in music directions, tho more recent composers tend to use their own native language in directions)
- 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:
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
- Retroswahili?
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 (from Netagin) = a 5-stringed bowed string instrument used for the treble register
- ŋamas = 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
...
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 (~ 150 years BP) 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" scales - e.g. 6:7:8:9:10:11:12 or 5-/7-odd limit diamonds
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?
Wiebosphere
Orchestras with metallophones/marimbas tuned to 15edo
Naquosphere
Religions and mysticism
- Thensarian paganism
- Wiebian paganism
- Naquian paganism
- Clofabian paganism
- A more universalistic religion (in the same general cluster as Christianity or Mahayana Buddhism)
- 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
People
Surnames are bolded.
- Quēhtloyoz - ancient Naquian linguist, wrote the first detailed grammar on Hussmauch
- Neumer Kait ("Neumer I.") - Ancient Wiebian queen
- Demash ba-Heshtön - Netagin biologist who discovered evolution
- A "Lovecraftian existentialist" philosopher
- Jakkiūrą Uffanasteh - Nurian artist
- Aodhàn Càdlàg - Bhadhagha mathematician
- Cláidhe Aoilinnstéin - Phormatian-Clofabian mathematician; Càdlàg's student
- Yamphotsaphidamchuerai Ativan - Clofabian lexicographer and novelist
- Arformoterol Ziagen - Clofabian mathematician
- Picumeterol Crestor - Clofabian actor and comedian
- Tnehl Wotterstein - Wiebian composer
- Mabéas Leachra - Tíogall-speaking poet and novelist
- Colesterol Lipitor - Clofabian dietitian
- Sjameu Panzux - Xaetjeon linguist
- Zarbíá Scúdhainn - Tíogall-speaking mathematician/tuning theorist/composer
- Lobsang Ziefer - Wiebian general
- Schlomo Schngellstein - Trây conlanger, creator of Verse:Hussmauch/Earth