Verse:Hmøøh/Earth
Earth is the creation of a Wiobian conlanger, Slomo Sngellstien.
Star system
Earth is the 3rd of 8 planets orbiting the yellow main sequence star Sol, in the Milky Way Galaxy. Here are the names of the planets in English and Mandarin Chinese (with Pīnyīn transliterations for the latter):
- Mercury / 水星 Shuǐxīng
- Venus / 金星 Jīnxīng
- Earth / 地球 Dìqiú
- Mars / 火星 Huǒxīng
- Jupiter / 木星 Mùxīng
- Saturn / 土星 Tǔxīng
- Uranus / 天王星 Tiānwángxīng
- Neptune / 海王星 Hǎiwángxīng
Languages
Many languages on Earth use phonologies very similar to languages of Hussmauch. But Sngellstien often groups them in weird ways, so that phonologies from totally unrelated languages can show up in the same language family, and vice versa.
Here are a few:
- Indo-European (a Bhadhagha gib of sorts)
- Latin (quasi-Thensarian gib with a Clofab touch)
- French (a jokelang)
- Italian (quasi-Nurian)
- Portuguese (quasi-Bênôcian)
- Spanish (Bênôcian with a 5-vowel system and no nasal vowels)
- Greek (quasi-Phormatolidin)
- Celtic (a better Thensarian gib)
- Irish (toneless Kurmian gib with a Bhadhagha orthography)
- Welsh (Eevo pseudo-gib)
- Germanic
- German (clickless !Zoom with front rounded vowels)
- English (Wiobian pseudo-gib)
- Dutch
- Icelandic (loosely inspired by Tsjoen with an Eevo touch)
- Balto-Slavic (Varrkkún pseudo-gibs)
- Indo-Iranian
- Sanskrit (a quasi-Nurian language that sounds like Plai Raew when fit to Thai phonology)
- Armenian
- Albanian
- Latin (quasi-Thensarian gib with a Clofab touch)
- Uralic
- Finnic
- Finnish (quasi-Verapamil gib with vowel harmony)
- Estonian
- Hungarian
- Finnic
- Sino-Tibetan
- Old Chinese (trying to fit a large phoneme inventory to a [Tie-Dye] aesthetic)
- Mandarin Chinese (tonal quasi-Nail Polish/Dżyper guon)
- Cantonese
- Shanghainese
- Burmese
- Old Chinese (trying to fit a large phoneme inventory to a [Tie-Dye] aesthetic)
- Semitic
- Hebrew (quasi-Netagin gib)
- Israeli Hebrew (quasi-Tsrovesh gib)
- Arabic (triconsonantal Varrkkún gib)
- Hebrew (quasi-Netagin gib)
- Mon-Khmer
- Khmer (quasi-Wiobian)
- Vietic
- Vietnamese (tonal quasi-Wiobian)
- Tai-Kadai
- Thai (mutationless Kurmian pseudo-gib)
- Hmong-Mien
- Hmong (tonal Eevo + Roshterian; a counterpart to French in the "other Talma", where final consonants mark tone instead of being silent)
- Eskimo-Aleut
- Kalaallisut
- Ubykh
- Turkic
- Turkish (pseudo-Belen)
- Japanese (A CW language with a simple syllable structure, loosely Prepsocandin Clofabosin-like)
- Korean (A CW language where Sinitic borrowings sound a little like Tsjoen)
- Uto-Aztecan
- Nahuatl (ejectiveless Naquian gib)
- Salish
- Lushootseed (Adetsib gib with ejectives)
- Dravidian
- Drug generic names (Clofabosin gib)
- Na-Dené
- Navajo (quasi-Sjowaazheñ with an Naquian touch)
Regions
- Eurasia
- Two "Talman" areas in the northwest and southeast
- Two large CW areas (one of them a subcontinent)
- Africa (A continent to the south of Eurasia)
- Click heaven
- Prefixing heaven
- North America (Naquosphere gib continent)
- Australia (Maytjari gib continent)
Musical cultures
Indonesia
Non-octave tunings based on inharmonic spectra; various 5-note divisions of the octave
Instruments: large orchestras made up of metallophones and gongs are common
Western Europe
Another tradition of temperament and large orchestras
Arab world
Linear temperaments based on equal divisions of the fifth in common use, and their corresponding 17- and 24-tone MOS scales
Siberia
A style of "throat singing" making use of harmonic series scales
North America
A period of intense experimentation with just intonation and other linear temperaments. Key figures: Harry Partch, Ivor Darreg, Erv Wilson, Julián Carrillo, Ezra Sims