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Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue<br> | Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue<br> | ||
*lack of gutturals vs lack of labials | *lack of gutturals vs lack of labials | ||
*synthesis vs | *synthesis vs anathesis | ||
*words don't repeat vs words repeat | *words don't repeat vs words repeat | ||
*diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden | *diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden | ||
*only sonorants as coda vs | *only sonorants as free coda vs only stops as free coda | ||
*constraints | *constraints... | ||
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In Veno's Dark Tongue | In Veno's Dark Tongue | ||
''gog yoguguluk'' " | ''gog yoguguluk'' "X speaks" | ||
''yo-'' " | ''yo-'' "X" + ''-gu-'' [X] + ''-g-'' [X] +''-ul-'' [X] + ''-uk'' [X] | ||
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*Balardemea vs kalaradunga | *Balardemea vs kalaradunga | ||
Mixed Breed Dark Tongue: | |||
''gog yoguguluk dash'' /ɠɔɠ ɥoɠuɠuɠuluk daʃ/ | |||
Pure Breed Dark Tongue: | |||
''kꜣ̥k yꜣ̥kwkwlwk tsh'' /ƙħ̩ƙ ɥ̊ħ̩ƙʷƙʷlʷƙ tʃ/ | |||
Vocabulary drawn from the Lovecraft Mythos, Tolkien's Legendarium ... | Vocabulary drawn from the Lovecraft Mythos, Tolkien's Legendarium ... | ||
''rꜣlyẙh khlw̥hllw'' "city", '' | ''rꜣlyẙh khlw̥hllw'' "city", ''kl̥ rꜣ̥k'' "demon", ''ns̥k kw̥l'' "ghost", ''shw̥k nw̥kwrth'' "goat" | ||
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/jɪee̞ɛæa īi̯/ | |||
īy ay "the man", ī īnain "the mountain" | |||
A pure anathetic language would rather focus on the combinations of words than the words themselves (meaningless individually in this case): In Veno's Dark Tongue, associations strike as grammatical in zodrak hu "dog" versus hu zodrak "cat". | A pure anathetic language would rather focus on the combinations of words than the words themselves (meaningless individually in this case): In Veno's Dark Tongue, associations strike as grammatical in zodrak hu "dog" versus hu zodrak "cat". | ||
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Anathesis: In Portuguese, ''ca'' alone means nothing, as does ''sa'', yet ''casa'' means "house". Synthesis: In Latin, the particle ''-orum'' means not only [genitive], but also [plural] and [masculine]/[neuter]. Agglutination, on the other hand, is the neutral morphological nature. | Anathesis: In Portuguese, ''ca'' alone means nothing, as does ''sa'', yet ''casa'' means "house". Synthesis: In Latin, the particle ''-orum'' means not only [genitive], but also [plural] and [masculine]/[neuter]. Agglutination, on the other hand, is the neutral morphological nature. | ||
degrees of purity | degrees of purity | ||