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===The Alphabet=== | ===The Alphabet=== | ||
The Brooding Alphabet itself consists of | The Brooding Alphabet itself consists of fifty seeing characters and fifteen blind characters for a total of sixty-five characters in all. The seeing characters, as discussed above, all represent phonemic sounds in Brooding, with the exception of ''Stoot'', which indicates that a blind character will follow. The first sixteen seeing characters are synonymous with and in the order of the first sixteen [[Brooding#Numbers|numbers]]. | ||
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| [[File:Brooding-w.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-r.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-shl.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-dr.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-kl.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-khl.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-sk.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-h.gif]] | |||
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| '''w'''en || '''r'''aich || '''shl'''aum || '''dr'''augen || '''kl'''aut || '''khl'''obed || '''sk'''en || '''h'''oon | |||
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| ‘1’ || ‘2’ || ‘3’ || ‘4’ || ‘5’ || ‘6’ || ‘7’ || ‘8’ | |||
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| [[File:Brooding-s.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-thl.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-f.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-m.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-br.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-gr.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-sl.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-fl.gif]] | |||
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| '''s'''aed || '''thl'''ad || '''f'''eyeed || '''m'''awg || '''br'''aled || '''gr'''aizeeg || '''sl'''athlaan || '''fl'''uhn | |||
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| ‘9’ || ‘10’ || ‘11’ || ‘12’ || ‘13’ || ‘14’ || ‘15’ || ‘16’/‘ten’* | |||
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The origin of the order of the next 24 characters is lost to antiquity, but note that the [[Brooding#Contrasting_Vowels|Contrasting Vowels]] always appear together. The antepenultimate seeing character, ''Seering'' is the only seeing character which does not begin with the sound it represents (/ŋ/). The penultimate seeing character is ''Stoot,'' mentioned above as the only seeing character which does not represent a sound. The final seeing character ''zromed'', is the number ‘zero’. | The next eight characters are factorials used to create larger numbers. | ||
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| [[File:Brooding-fl.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-t.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-st.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-sp.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-g.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-tl.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-pl.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-kh.gif]] | |||
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| '''fl'''uhn || '''t'''egen || '''st'''ooraen || '''sp'''aethed || '''g'''aelen || '''tl'''eekath || '''pl'''oomig || '''kh'''ithleeth | |||
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| ‘ten’ || ‘hundred’ || ‘thousand’ || ‘million’ || ‘billion’ || ‘trillion’ || ‘quadrillion’ || ‘quintillion’ | |||
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The origin of the order of the next 24 characters is lost to antiquity, but note that the [[Brooding#Contrasting_Vowels|Contrasting Vowels]] always appear together. | |||
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| [[File:Brooding-l.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-d.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-a.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-aa.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-k.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-o.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-oo.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-th.gif]] | |||
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| '''l'''oth || '''d'''aroonyuh || '''a'''rdeeyel || '''aa'''aasawnith || '''k'''arthoguhst || '''o'''relseh || '''oo'''tawn || '''th'''estak | |||
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| ‘field’ || ‘nameless’ || (a name) || ‘glade’ || (a mountain) || (a name) || ‘instigator’ || ‘fortress’ | |||
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| [[File:Brooding-y.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-hl.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-ai.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-au.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-z.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-e.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-ae.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-n.gif]] | |||
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| '''y'''igrad || '''hl'''ai || '''ai'''chaithen || '''au'''tplen || '''z'''aitleel || '''e'''tbadee || '''ae'''gath || '''n'''iksis | |||
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| ‘goal’ || ‘what’ || ‘home’ || ‘existence’ || ‘magic’ || ‘legible’ || ‘ancient one’ || (a name) | |||
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| [[File:Brooding-i.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-ee.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-ch.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-uh.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-aw.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-b.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-p.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-sh.gif]] | |||
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| '''i'''tthladoz|| '''ee'''tkitaemeen || '''ch'''aath || '''uh'''lzebir || '''aw'''keraen || '''b'''enin || '''p'''aradoksis || '''sh'''ansuhn | |||
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| ‘survival’ || ‘work’ || ‘foolishness’ || ‘winner’ || ‘problem’ || ‘wheel’ || (a name) || (a name) | |||
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The antepenultimate seeing character, ''Seering'' is the only seeing character which does not begin with the sound it represents (/ŋ/). The penultimate seeing character is ''Stoot,'' mentioned above as the only seeing character which does not represent a sound. The final seeing character ''zromed'', is the number ‘zero’. | |||
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| [[File:Brooding-ng.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-fslahsh.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-zr.gif]] | |||
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| seeri'''ng''' || stoot || '''zr'''omed | |||
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| ‘key’ || (a name) || ‘zero’ | |||
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The final fifteen characters are blind and are named for the main word they are used to represent (though some may represent more than one word of concept). | |||
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| [[File:Brooding-num.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-equal.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-and.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-minus.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-openpar.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-caret.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-plus.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-under.gif]] | |||
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| thaelis || aeram || daebuh || zraeram || sloon || auplen || otlai ||felde | |||
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| ‘number’ || ‘is’ || ‘and’ || ‘isn’t’ || ‘you’ || ‘there is’ || ‘like’ || ‘because’ | |||
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| [[File:Brooding-ast.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-closepar.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-exclam.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-perct.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-tilde.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-at.gif]] || [[File:Brooding-dollar.gif]] | |||
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| fosh || tlelma || leed || tluht || tleste || zrauplen || tlande | |||
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| ‘he/she’ || ‘if’ || ‘I’ || ‘it’ || ‘when’ || ‘there isn’t’ || ‘where’ | |||
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== Nouns == | == Nouns == | ||