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'''Etalocin''' (/ɛ'tæləsɪn/; [[Clofabosin]]: ''ẹtalocin'' /'e(ː)talokin/, from [[Old Netagin]] ''ʔEtâ'' + Clofabosin ''locin'' 'land'; [[Eevo]]: ''Eetó'' /ɛiˈtʰɔ/) is a continent of the conplanet [[Verse:Tricin|Tricin]].
[[File:Bitaleta.png|thumbnail|The countries of the Bitaleta (Talma, [[Etalocin]], and [[Bjeheond]]) area]]
 
:''The similarity of the name to the Terran composer Louise Talma is coincidental.''
 
'''Talma''' ([[Skellan]]: ''Talma'' /t̪ʰãmə/, from [[Naeng]] ''Tălma'' /təlˈmɒ/, from ''tăle ăma'' 'mother land'; [[Netagin]]: ''Talma'') is a cultural region of the conplanet [[Verse:Tricin|Tricin]]. It is actually the northwestern portion of a landmass called Eta-Talma (Windermere: ''Eta-Tălma''). The southern part of Eta-Talma is [[Verse:Tricin/Etalocin|Etalocin]], which is separated from Talma by the Venlafaxin Mountains. [[Verse:Tricin/Bjeheond|Bjeheond]] is located to the south of Talma separated by the Naeng Sea.
 
==Todo==
Talma should have a couple more languages that are not Standard Average Talman (Idavic or an isolate)
* [[Swuntsim]] is one, kinda Chinese-y syntax (/ɬ/ is not SAT, oddly enough for a Celto-Semitic inspired region!)
* Häskä should be Austronesian grammar wisw
* Ouřefr --- Czecho-Dutch may be a promising idea


==History==
==History==
Don't make a Standard Fantasy/Medieval Setting for premodern Etalocin
===Pre-Calamities===
==="Warring States" period===
 
===Windermere Empire===
 
===Jeodganite Revolution and aftermath===
A major war broke out about 80 years after the publication of Jeodgan's manifesto.
 
===Post-Revolution===


==Geography and climate==
==Geography and climate==
===Countries===
Talma is located 35°N - 65°N and has a temperate climate. A natural barrier separates it from Etalocin.
*Camalastèabhana
 
*Tumaca
Isolated areas:
*Smewla
*Skella is a peninsula separated by a mountain range
*Anøvr
*Netaginland
*Nuria (Nūrē)
*Benocia
*Phormatin
*Qaaroshterim
*Clofabolocin
*Dodellia
*Wakani


==Economy==
==Economy==


==Demographics==
==Languages==
===Languages===
===Modern Talman languages===
The following language families are represented in Etalocin:
These are some modern Talman languages:
*[[Talmic]]
**[[Scellan]]
**[[Anbirese]]
**[[Ciètian]]
**[[Qazhrian]]
** Another Qazhric language?
*[[Lakovic]]
**[[Naeng]]
*** Tergetian langs
****[[Trây]]
****[[Sătmașian]]
****[[Pradiul]]
****[[Tsăloșian]]
**[[Tseer]]
**[[Häskä]]
*[[Tsimulh]]
**[[Swuntsim]]
*[[Idavic]]
** [[Ouřefr]]
 
Of these, [[Anbirese]] and [[Pradiul]] are the most spoken languages. Many modern Talmans, especially Talmic speakers, speak [[Skellan]] as a second language. [[Swuntsim]] is spoken by some people in the minority Swuntsim ethnicity.
 
==Holidays==
Here are some common holidays celebrated in Talman and Bjeheondian-derived cultures.
====''Sarðbyçán''====
Traditionally, the ''Sarðbyçán'' (Spring Equinox; Windermere: ''Păchan Șer'') holiday was celebrated in Talman paganism in order to bring good harvest for the year.
 
For the Spring Equinox holiday, there are foods that use lightly-flavored mushrooms, along with other spring herbs and other "bright"/tart-flavored ingredients.


*[[Clofabic languages]]
====''Bleesi''====
*[[Naquic languages]]
Bleesi has its origins in the Tigol "festival of horns".
*[[Talmic languages]]
====''Sdahnsa''====
*[[Netagin]]
Sdahnsa (Windermere: ''Stansa'', from [[Tigol]] ''Sdannasa'' 'gathering') is the celebration of the harvest.
*[[Dodellian]]
*[[Belen]]
*[[Wakanic languages]]
*[[Tsrovesh]]
*[[Mategian]]


===Linguistic areas===
Foods:
Linguistic areas:
*Ripe autumn fruits and berries, Spices
*Talma (head-initial, definiteness, more analytic)
 
**Nurian area
====''Xiðaf''====
***Aspiration and gemination
Xiðaf (Windermere: ''Șidaf''), meaning "remembrance [of the dead]", is the fasting period in Ngronaism, especially Mărotłism. A more restrictive diet is followed for the month of Çatxiðaf until Vinwr 1, which is Bwrjadraig or Winter Solstice. The fasting is explained as mental preparation for scarcity of winter and remembering the loved ones who died.
***Small vowel system with palatalization
 
***More synthetic
====''Bwrjadraig''====
**Continental Talman Linguistic Area
Falling on Vinwr 1, ''Bwrjadraig'' ([[Eevo]]; 'winter solstice'; [[Windermere]]: ''hălăhing srel'') is a holiday which emphasizes resolve to survive and live, remembrance of those who have died, as well as hope for a future better than now.
***Split-ergativity
***/n/ is [n~l], l vocalizes into a uvular or pharyngealized resonant
***Large vowel system
***VSO order
***Head-marking in possessive NPs, with construct state or 3rd person possessive marking
***Grammatical mutation
***Sex-based grammatical gender
*Southwestern Etalocin
**Tsrovesh, Desperanto
*Northeastern Etalocin
**Head-initial
**Polysynthesis
*CW-Complex (Eastern Etalocin)
**IE, Uralic or "Altaic" aesthetic
**Head-final/"Altaic" grammar


==Society==
==Society==
Etalocin was, and still to a large extent is, a [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CrapsaccharineWorld Crapsaccharine World]. Etalocin boasts a robust tradition of intellectual activity, especially in mathematics and music. However, Etalocian society is a highly stratified meritocracy, which historically caused considerable friction between social classes.
Talma boasts a robust tradition of intellectual activity in the sciences, philosophy, and music. However, Talman society historically was a highly stratified meritocracy, which historically caused considerable friction between social classes.


The social cost of nonconformity (especially for men) was quite severe. Crimes were punished harshly. Legally, the most common punishments were exile, imprisonment and forced labor but often the criminals were tortured, castrated, or executed, in addition to public shaming.
Historically the social cost of nonconformity was quite severe. Crimes were punished harshly. Legally, the most common punishments were exile, imprisonment and forced labor but often the criminals were tortured, castrated, or executed, in addition to public shaming.


Polygamy was legally recognized in Etalocin cultures, though many people are monogamous.
===Impact of birth control===
''Hmlai'' ([[Skellan]]) is a contraceptive plant native to Talma that's easy to farm, thus providing premodern Talmans with cheap birth control. (We'll call it ''silphium'' in English.)


===Traditional elite culture===
Some possible consequences of Talman silphium:
*Polygamy was legally recognized in Talman cultures, though many people are monogamous.
*Premodern Talman culture doesn't have a traditionalist sexual morality (neither does modern Talman culture).
*Equal rights for women has always been an ideal, if not reality, in Talman culture in recorded history. (This is not because of some innate moral superiority of Talmans but largely due to external factors.)
*Women are less likely to die young in childbirth and thus more likely to participate in public society.


===Pre-modern vulgar culture===
===Pre-modern vulgar culture===
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===Modern===
===Modern===
The rise of the merchant class and the free-market economy marks the beginning of Etalocian modernity.
The rise of the merchant class and the free-market economy marks the beginning of Etalocian modernity.
Contemporary social issues include:
*how much welfare?
*size of standing army?
*death penalty
*national parks etc.
*basic income and its effects
*automation
*effective altruism
*gender stuff
*etc.
The election system used is usually approval voting. Some countries use ranked-choice voting.


''[[w:Agile software development|Agile]] legislation'' is considered a design ideal to strive for in Etalocian democracies.
''[[w:Agile software development|Agile]] legislation'' is considered a design ideal to strive for in Etalocian democracies.


There is no legal concept of marriage in modern Etalocian societies; marriage is essentially a "religious" concept to be negotiated by individuals.
There is no legal concept of marriage in modern Etalocian societies; marriage is essentially a "religious" concept to be negotiated by individuals.
==Education==
==Education==
===Traditional education===
===Traditional education===
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===Modern education===
===Modern education===
The following applies broadly to Etalocin as well as societies founded by Etalocian settlers, such as most of Hranluav.
The following applies broadly to Talma as well as societies founded by Talman settlers, such as [[Verse:Tricin/Fyxoom|Fyxoom]].
====Primary and secondary education====
====Primary and secondary education====
Teaching basic literacy, arithmetic and finance, and inculcation of liberal values (which is a part of how Ngronaism is interpreted today), are considered the most important function of public education.
[...]
 
Since education in higher levels is much more fragmented and stratified, primary school curriculum is standardized and efforts are made to cultivate a sense of empathy towards people of other backgrounds in primary school. (A child may test out of the literacy and math requirements.) [[Verse:Tricin/Ngronaism|The civic religion]] is taught with lessons about history, literature, and philosophy.
 
Secondary school is less determined. There are topics such as sex education and more Ngronaism lessons which are mandatory (in time for adolescence), but secondary schools are otherwise free to develop their own curricula.
 
Some public secondary schools offer more specialized curricula in the sciences, arts or the humanities, geared towards students who wish to enter universities (see below). For illustration, this is a typical modern Etalocian science school math curriculum:
 
*Geometry, equations and functions
*Calculus (one-variable and multivariable)
*Ordinary differential equations
*Probability and statistics; combinatorics
*Linear algebra.


Lastly, traditional-style private boarding schools still exist.
Lastly, traditional-style private boarding schools still exist.
====Higher education====
====Higher education====
=====Apprenticeships and trade schools=====
Humanities in science degrees, Naquian style
Apprenticeship, which is highly decentralized, attempts to teach skills directly relevant to a career path that a person wishes to enter; most of the time it leads directly to internships or jobs. Trade schools attempt to scale up this apprenticeship process, and have historical origins in apprenticeships.


Apprenticeships include:
==Art==
* training for most jobs in the sciences (in Tricin, this notion includes psychology and economics) such as coding, lab technician, ...  
===Visual art===
* training for musicians
Non-representational art based on geometrical patterns predominates, such as tiling patterns and creating various shapes by cutting and folding paper.
* training for pink collar jobs such as nursing/social work/therapy/sex work.
===Literature===
* teacher schools, for primary and secondary school teachers
===Theater===
The aristocracy consumed early forms of Talman theater. However, theater as a public art form enjoyed a boom starting in the post-Grouidite Revolution period, with Etsoj Jopah's and Lesch Mltzhyphe's writings.


=====Professional schools=====
Typically the most attractive actors and actresses were selected for protagonist roles. [?]
Medical, law, dentistry, pharmacy, psychiatry, engineering schools.


=====Universities=====
Universities are considered appropriate only for those who aim to eventually enter research or teaching in higher education, or those who simply wish to undertake a particularly intense study of a subject. Only 6.3% (fT 2676) of Hranorians are university students or graduates. Enrollment requires an entrance exam.
Notably, students in universities are permitted to address professors using the familiar pronouns ''fiar'' and ''swad'', like professors do to their students.
For illustration, this is a typical curriculum for a modern (~fT 2680) undergraduate pure math student:
1st year
*Writing proofs
*Combinatorics
*Elementary number theory
*Probability
*Formal linear algebra
2nd year
*Abstract algebra (Groups, rings, modules, fields, Galois theory)
*Real analysis (Axiomatic calculus)
*Point-set topology
*PDEs
*Complex analysis
3rd year
*Real analysis (Lebesgue measure and integration)
*Functional analysis
*Differential geometry
*Algebraic topology
*Commutative algebra
4th year
*Advanced number theory
*Category theory
*Algebraic geometry
*A capstone course, involving independent study of a topic (if the student wishes to graduate in their 4th year, instead of continuing into graduate studies)
==Art==
===Literature===
===Music===
===Music===
:''Main article: [[Verse:Tricin/Etalocin/Music]]''
:''Main article: [[Verse:Tricin/Talma/Music]]''


===Architecture===
===Architecture===
====Buildings====
====Buildings====
looks like something a music-geometry synaesthete would dream up
*gently curved, sloping roofs like in traditional Japanese architecture?
*tessellations like in Islamic architecture? (and isomorphic keyboards)
*space and relationships are emphasized (just as relationships between notes are important)
*multiple layers, with varying ratios used - overkill?
Material-wise, polished wood is the main material in many buildings; expensive buildings such as palaces use more stone, mortar, and ebony.
====Gardens====
====Gardens====
Gardens are highly valued in Talman culture. They may be based on "natural balancing" or based on intricate patterns.


===Fashion===
===Fashion===
====Vegetarian or vegan fashion====
Mostly consists of cotton
how insulate with no leather
*wool
*down feathers
**heavy seabird nesting sites that provide down, fertilizer, later gunpowder ingredients
*''ymnahd'' oil
*basically a lot of "hacks"
===Other visual art===
===Other visual art===


==Calendar==
==Technology==
Modern Talman and Fyxoomian technology is more advanced than ours. Almost all cars are electric, and solar, wind, hydrogen and thorium energy are the main energy sources. Fossil fuels are still used for airplanes.


==Cuisine==
==Cuisine==
Vegetarian cuisine has been backed by various ethical philosophies that prohibit either killing or inflicting suffering on animals. Some form of vegetarianism is common among Etalocians; however, vegetarians are less common among lower classes.
Vegetarian cuisine has been advocated by various ethical philosophies that prohibit either killing or inflicting suffering on animals. Some form of vegetarianism is common among modern Etalocians. Talman vegetarianism usually allows at most one of:
*milk
*eggs
*insects, seafood and fish
 
Vegetarians are fairly evenly distributed among all social classes. Being a morally contentious issue, cuisine has been a subject of cultural conflict and even wars over Talman history.
 
Veganism is a modern invention, after the invention of factory farming and synthetic vitamin B12; it is more common for more affluent people to be vegan.  


Using umami ingredients such as seaweeds and mushrooms, and herbs and spices is common to make up for the lack of meat.
Using umami ingredients such as seaweeds and mushrooms, and herbs and spices is common to make up for the lack of meat.
==Religion and civic religion==
:''Main article: [[Verse:Tricin/Ngronaism]]
===Early Etalocian religion===
The oldest religious traditions include ancient Clofabic, Talmic, and Netagin paganisms.
Pre-Great Calamities archaeological finds indicate that human sacrifice was practiced in the earliest stages of Etalocian religion. Human sacrifice had been banned among the Netagin before the Great Calamities, but continued to be practiced among the Thensarians until the Great Calamities.
===Second Mover===
Etalocians' principal religious innovation is the concept of the ''Second Mover'' (Eevo: ''Feesd Arn'', Clofabosin: ''ribilzavudan'') which is roughly "the creative capacity and the attendant responsibility that we have as human beings independent of any external authority". More pithily, it is "the God within us". In short, we humans are responsible for "creation" and formulating rules, where "God has left off", even when no one is telling us what to do. There is much vagueness in this definition, though, leaving open exactly what the Second Mover should be driven towards. This motivated much of philosophy, psychology and social science; on the other hand, many a perverse interpretation of this doctrine was used to justify brutality.


===Modern civic religion===
==Religion==
Modern civic religion consists of such activities as "effective altruism" and developing transhumanist technologies and giving participants a "meaning-rich" environment with rituals and mythmaking. Overcoming human limitations is seen as working towards the ultimate manifestation of the Second Mover; eventually, the Second Mover must defeat the First Mover, which is the evil, at best untrustworthy demiurge.
Note that ''religion'' is largely a translation convention. Folk religion, or people making up religions, is common.
===Mainstream===
The two main Talman religions are [[Verse:Tricin/Mărotłism|Mărotłism]] and [[Verse:Tricin/Ngronaism|Ngronaism]].


Who are the "heretics"?
===Swuntsim===
:''Main article: [[Verse:Tricin/Swuntsimism]]''
==Politics==
===Cuisine culture war===


==Notable figures==
==Notable figures==
*pseudo-'''Rocēdy''' - group of ancient Talman mathematicians, authors of the ''Brøøhad Manuscript'' which is the first text to mention negative numbers, complex numbers and algebra
TODO: more non-music, non-STEM heroes
*Θīcot '''Atiȝadaedā''' - Adetsib astronomer, developed the heliocentric model of planetary motion
 
*Jissārahim = Netagin geometer, described Euclidean geometry in 2- and 3-dimensional Euclidean space; his work appears in Thensarian translation
TODO: more Amphirese, Yekhanese, Qazhrians, Phormatians, Chthryxians, ...
*sduydilət '''ayqsadbi''' (Snoeδiret Aecsarbē) - [[Thensarian]] mathematician, who first approximated ''π'' to 96 base-12 places (~ 104 decimal places)
*Yăchef '''rith-Ătsa''' - Windermere physician who verified germ theory of disease
*Toφaomerom - ancient [[Tamilserotin|Clofabic]] orator
*pseudo-[???] - group of ancient Tergetian mathematicians, authors of the ''Brøøhad Manuscript'' which is the first text to mention negative numbers, complex numbers and algebra
*[[Verse:Tricin/Tsâhoŋ-Tamdi|Tsâhoŋ-Tamdi]] - composer, physicist and mathematician who wrote [[Literature:Elements of Harmony|''Elements of Harmony'']], which has the first known mention of harmonic series; the just ratios generated by a given set of primes
*[???] - Tergetian astronomer, developed the heliocentric model of planetary motion
*Rith-Mârotx - Netagin statesman and political theorist
*Jissarāφom = Windermere geometer, described Euclidean geometry in 2- and 3-dimensional Euclidean space; his work appears in Thensarian translation
*Fosen '''fat-Tazrir''' - Netagin chemist, physicist
*Snoeδiret '''Aecsarbē''' - [[Thensarian]] mathematician, who first approximated ''π'' to 96 base-12 places (~ 104 decimal places)
*ʔAmmuħ '''far-Rothâbh''' - Netagin geometer, physicist and engineer
A series of natural disasters strikes Talma and sets off the "Warring States Period".
After two centuries of the Talman Dark Age brought about by a series of natural disasters and plagues...
*Tsăhongtămdi - composer, physicist and mathematician who wrote [[Literature:Elements of Harmony|''Elements of Harmony'']], which has the first known mention of harmonic series; the just ratios generated by a given set of primes
*Yakhef '''Batzaħ''' - Netagin physician who verified germ theory of disease
*Rith-Mărotł - Windermere statesman, philosopher, and political theorist
*Ngeysi '''Beȝnof''' - Netagin physicist and mathematician who invented calculus
*Hădech Angcem - Windermere naturalist who deduced the theory of biological evolution from Pategian wildlife which was similar but different than wildlife of continental Talma.
*Early Netagin composers (responsible for staff directions in [[Netagin]])
*Báñas '''Gnachat''' = a [[Tigol]]-language poet, supposedly was a lesbian.
**Elsa '''Nuzakh'''
**the namesake for the Eevo word for "lesbian", ''gnahadol''
*'''Yamphotsaphidamchuerai''' Ativan - [[Clofabian]] lexicographer and novelist [Ativan even sounds somewhat Sanskrit (like ati-vara -- could mean 'lots of blessings'/'very blessed')]
*Fosean '''Tsarir''' - Windermere chemist, physicist
*Embisoom '''Grwid''' - Eevo-speaking poet
*Ichmu '''fa-Rothap''' - Windermere geometer, physicist and engineer
*'''Arformoterol''' Ziagen - [[Clofabian]] mathematician and composer
*Răngeay '''Pănof''' - Windermere physicist and mathematician who invented calculus
*'''Ergosterol''' Aleve ♀ - [[Clofabian]] nurse, pioneered modern nursing
[The Revolution]
*Aodhàn '''Càdlàg''' - [[Bhadhagha]] mathematician (real analyst)
*Jemisam '''Jeodgan''' - [[Amphirese]] poet
*Tabhikh Vasèŋŋ - [[Netagin]] mathematician who worked on complex analysis
*Sngü '''Pde''' - [[Windermere]] physicist
*Sdyrros '''Salmeter''' - Eevo inventor
*Tăbich '''Waseng''' - [[Windermere]] mathematician who worked on complex analysis, discovered Riemann zeta function
*[[Verse:Tricin/Rewtt Sguðinn|Rewtt '''Sguðinn''']] ♀ - [[Eevo]] mathematician and composer
*(Amphirese poets and writers)
**Need some more similarly OP mathematicians.
*Stuthil '''Alcphe''' - [[Verse:Tricin/Amphir|Amphirese]] writer
*ʔədščal '''bəyakʷ''' - [Adetsibic] mathematician; a student of Sguðinn
*Astęras '''Sawmeter''' - [[Verse:Tricin/Amphir|Amphirese]] inventor
*[[Verse:Alað Bolltind|Alað '''Bolltind''']] - Eevo linguist, discovered [[Roshterian]]
*Axtxo '''Byjah''' - Sfətsiv-Fyxoomian writer
*Tsyttol '''Gvitxydad''' - [Adetsibic] linguist, discovered [[Sjowaazheñ]]
*Ilsá '''Josive''' - Skellan geometer
*[[Verse:Sduþel Bolltind|Sduþel '''Bolltind''']] - [[Verse:Tricin/Skella|Skellan]] linguist, discovered [[Roshterian]]
*Tzintve '''Vitzyza''' - Sfətsiv-Amphirese linguist, discovered [[Sowaár]]
*Alg '''Geom''' - [[Anbirese]] algebraic geometer
*Rewhd '''Gneevon''' - writer
*Çela '''Jaivon''' - Skellan fantasy writer and conlanger, Tricin's Tolkien figure


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