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== About the corvins == | == About the corvins == | ||
Corvins are a species of giant flightless ravens who use language and manipulate tools with their beaks, tongues, and feet. (Though calling a corvin a "raven" is often an insult like calling a human a monkey or a Neanderthal.) They speak using their highly developed syrinxes. | Corvins (Corvus sapiens) are a species of giant flightless ravens who use language and manipulate tools with their beaks, tongues, and feet. (Though calling a corvin a "raven" is often an insult like calling a human a monkey or a Neanderthal.) They speak using their highly developed syrinxes. | ||
=== Anatomy === | === Anatomy === | ||
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==== Sign language ==== | ==== Sign language ==== | ||
Corvin sign languages mainly use tongue, wings, beaks, and feet | Corvin sign languages mainly use tongue, wings, beaks, and feet. | ||
==== Corvin-specific grammaticalization paths ==== | ==== Corvin-specific grammaticalization paths ==== | ||
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Like human music, corvin music displays enormous diversity and their instruments have similar basic mechanisms (strings, winds, membranophones and idiophones). One difference is that they place more emphasis on timbre than humans, since the upper limit of corvin hearing is about an octave higher. | Like human music, corvin music displays enormous diversity and their instruments have similar basic mechanisms (strings, winds, membranophones and idiophones). One difference is that they place more emphasis on timbre than humans, since the upper limit of corvin hearing is about an octave higher. | ||
Many corvin cultures do not consider simple dyadic harmony or low-complexity-JI-based harmony to be musical per se, any more than speakers of human tonal languages consider their language to be musical. Particularly, speakers of the bitonal language [????] have evolved an impressive Zheanism-like musical tradition utilizing extended high-overtone harmony, various JI colorings of the intervals used in speech, and extremely precise vocal control. | Many corvin cultures do not consider simple dyadic harmony or low-complexity-JI-based harmony to be musical per se, any more than speakers of human tonal languages consider their language to be musical. Particularly, speakers of the bitonal corvin language [????] have evolved an impressive Zheanism-like musical tradition utilizing extended high-overtone harmony, various JI colorings of the intervals used in speech, and extremely precise vocal control. | ||
In other musical cultures, counterpoint is a staple; in one culture, street singers show off their 2-part counterpoint skills. | In other musical cultures, counterpoint is a staple; in one culture, street singers show off their 2-part counterpoint skills. | ||