Verse:Hmøøh

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Star system

Planet names in Phormatolidin: Sphytin, Alathoin, Phycodin, Chlorotricin (Hussmauch), Sterocythin, Tharofudin, Clypharin, Xantheromin

Planetary characteristics

1 HM year = 381.3668618 Earth days

1 HM day = 25.6323176 hours

357.0806527870906 days (ratio)

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:

Southwestern Cuadhlabh

Loanwords tend to come from:

Northeastern Cuadhlabh

Wiebosphere

Naquosphere

Loanwords tend to come from:

Language families of Modern Hussmauch

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)

Instruments

Eastern Cuadhlabh

  • spúith (Clofabosin: spiutin) = plucked string instrument with sympathetic strings
  • ŋamsaí (Clofabosin: gamsin) = a bowed string instrument used for melodic lines (there has to be one!!!)
  • penicillin = a wind instrument
  • ditoren = a string instrument

Talma

Wiebosphere

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.

  • Tnehl Wotterstein - Wiebian composer
  • Lobsang Ziefer - Wiebian general
  • Neumer Kait ("Neumer I.") - Ancient Wiebian queen
  • Sjameu Panzux - Xaetjeon linguist
  • Aodhàn Càdlàg - Bhadhagha mathematician
  • Zarbíá Scúdhainn - Tíogall mathematician/tuning theorist/composer
  • Colesterol Lipitor - Clofabian dietitian
  • Yamphotsaphidamchuerai Ativan - Clofabian lexicographer and novelist
  • Arformoterol Ziagen - Clofabian mathematician
  • Cláidhe Aoilinnstéin - Phormatian-Clofabian mathematician; Càdlàg's student
  • Quēhtloyoz - ancient Naquian linguist, wrote the first detailed grammar on Hussmauch
  • Jakkiūrą Uffana·steh - Nurian artist