Verse:Hmøøh/māNāqui

The Naquian Empire (Naquian: Nāquiz from PQ snākʷs 'homeland') was the major civilization in ancient Txapoalli.

Place/person names

• Quintlopetl Ztelmīz or just Quintlopetl
• Cuancalli
• Quēhtłoyoz: Naquian grammarian
• Huichaltzah: Naquian explorer, conlanger and playwright
• Ztlathuiyaz: a theater
• Erencāhto: the Rencad, later became capital of Xaetjeonlowv

Music

Tuning

Ancient Naquian music uses a division of the perfect fifth into 4 or 8 equal parts. (The 8 equal parts tuning is very close to the 88 cents equal tuning.) Skellan composer Rewhd Sgutsis noted that these scales fit nicely into a framework of 41 equal parts to the octave.

Scales in steps of the 8 equal division of the fifth scale:

• 2 2 2 2 - 4edf
• 2 2 3 1
• 3 1 3 1

Native sources describe the following system of naming intervals in this scale.

• "Unison"
• Minor second = 88 cents
• Neutral second = 176 cents
• Major second = Minor third = 264 cents
• Neutral third = 352 cents
• Major third = Minor fourth = 440 cents
• Neutral fourth = 528 cents
• Major fourth = 616 cents
• Perfect fifth ]= 704 cents
• Minor sixth = 792 cents
• Neutral sixth = 880 cents
• Major sixth = Minor seventh = 968 cents
• Neutral seventh = 1056 cents
• Major seventh = 1144 cents