User:H. H. P. M. P. Cole/Future Schlaub

Wug Nlab (Wug Nlab: Nlam Wuk, or oo Ntsok əə as as p ek p yn øþ as Ljaum Ndom ad ad иd i as ə t ek t yn øþ as i ad ad иd i as ə k ek k yn øþ as и ad ad ad) is a loglang. In its setting Technoquintlan, it is one of the two main academic languages spoken around fT 2700 (around 2450 in the Gregorian calendar), alongside Akademiesprache.

Wug Nlab
oo Ntsok əə as as p ek p yn øþ as Ljaum Ndom ad ad иd i as ə t ek t yn øþ as i ad ad иd i as ə k ek k yn øþ as и ad ad ad
Created by	Cole
Setting	Technoquintlan
Language family	Hlou-Shum Hlouic Schlaub Wug Nlab

Some linguists classify this not as a separate language, but as a dialect/sociolect of Schlaub. However, fT 2700 Schlaub (let alone even fT 2400 Schlaub) is not mutually intelligible with Wug Nlab, causing this classification to fail. In addition, due to the completely different system of grammatical particles it can be difficult to understand Wug Nlab for a purely Schlaub speaker.

External history

Main premise: Riemannic on steroids but Hlou-Shum

To mirror the Hlou-Shum languages being spoofs of Indo-European languages under a somewhat Hmongic framework, Cole decided to spoof his old conlang Riemannic in this manner. His first idea was a slightly divergent Hlouic language with loans from Windermere, but it was shortly scrapped because he felt it wouldn't work (and also partly due to his inexperience with Windermere).

His next idea was to make Hlou Riemannic mathematically-based, which initially was the concept for Quintlanic. However, due to the fact that he ran out of ideas (or rather, was too overwhelmed with bad ideas) for Quintlanic, he decided to merge that project with his favourite conlang Schlaub to form a kind of "Future Schlaub", if you will.

Internal history

The music theorist and linguist Soha Plu designed a concept of a philosophical language (Wug Bub as he called it) while he was on sabbatical in Quintlopetl (Hlou: Klin-Tlän). However, his idea never caught on with his fellow colleagues.

Around fT 2400, there was a great economic collapse in both Terra and Tricin (similar to the Collapse in Rosenfelder's Incatena setting). This resulted in the loss of, notably, Scellan as a lingua franca on Tricin and early 21st-century English as a lingua franca on Earth, which was quickly replaced with Clofabosin on both worlds. However, it did not enjoy the status of a lingua franca as Scellan and English previously.

To remedy this, many other solutions were tried out. Most notably, on Terra, there was a great revival of Latino sine flexione, mostly in South America and the Northwestern Mediterranean, but on Tricin, a kind of analytic Clofabolocin was used in Etatalma. However, both solutions did not last long.

The superpowers of both worlds decided to try making lingua francas of their own, and the Germanic-speaking Europeans and the Hlou-Shum were the first to create them. Unlike Esperanto a few hundred years before, their conlangs - Akademiesprache and Wug Nlab respectively - were much more successful in reach. The former was created by the applied mathematicians, biologists, chemists, and specialists in other applied fields, and Wug Nlab was created by pure mathematicians, physicists, programmers, and specialists in other 'pure' fields.

What is notable is the inclusion of astronomers and musicians in the group that created Wug Nlab, which could be a kind of revival of the quadrivium. However, they did not have much imagination: they decided to use Plu's Wug Bub (known here as Quintlanic) as one of its bases.

Great Orthographical Reform

By fT 2430, the orthography devised by Arcaschloss Schngellstein was gaining traction amongst people in Europe and Clofabolocin due to the simplicity of the orthography, but the main oppressors of it were obviously the Hlou, who wanted to keep their featural script, as they felt the Schngellstein orthography might introduce new stereotypes in Terran people who haven't heard about the Hlou. (At the time.interplanetary travel was expensive.)

At this time the notion of political correctness was taken very seriously, and so the Hlou won. However, Arcaschloss Schngellstein and his supporters protested against it, so Halceonib Plu Hopfai (fT 2300 Hlou: Plud Höß-Pfein), great-great-grandson of Plu Soha, made a compromise orthography, using Pinyin as a base for it.

The battle of orthographies raged on till this day, and so there are at least six orthographies for Wug Nlab, and no one can decide which one to use.

The Battle for Wug Nlab

Plu Hopfai could be considered the first true speaker of Wug Nlab as he was the first to merge together the grammar of Wug Bub and the lexicon of Schlaub. This made Schngellstein happy as he finally can make another joke orthography for a Hlou-Shum based language.

By fT 2450 the Clofabosin people, who were long time allies of the Hlou, thought Schngellstein was a maniac, making fun of their so-called "brothers in Vansen".

However, Schngellstein was pissed off as he could not find an obscure European language with an interesting aesthetic to spoof Wug Nlab, so he reached out to Vlamnach Kleloch, the only Zlïcean grandson of Harsforden Parker-Cole. This is because the people who made the Latin-based orthographies for Zlïke were also friends and colleagues of Schngellstein and were interested in spoofing European languages in their orthographies.

He told him that Cole made a conlang called Riemannic and he had his old notes with him, so he sent them to Schngellstein. This is where we get the Riemannic spoof orthography for Wug Nlab.

Preliminaries: Changes from fT 2300 to fT 2400 Schlaub

Sound changes

The following sound and orthographical changes happened:

• All unaspirated voiceless plosives and affricates became voiced (but still unaspirated) due to influence from Clofabosin, and later, English

• /s̪, ts̪ʰ, ts̪, ⁿts̪ʰ, ⁿdz̪/ -> /θ, tθʰ, dð (due to the previous change), ⁿtθ, ⁿdð/

This was a result of second-language Hlou learners failing to turn dental fricatives into sibilants.

• /əi, əu, əũ/ -> /ai, au, ɔʏ/
• /ʐ/ -> /ɹ/
• /ʒ/ -> /j/
• /ã/ -> /æ/
• /õ/ -> /ø/

These were a result of a 'literally read' version of the German-based orthography devised by German-Clofabian Hmongophile and linguist Otto Hans Arcaschloss Schngellstein, grandson of Shlomo Schngellstein (now changed to Shlomo Kuaishi), and are somewhat similar to the variety of vowels used in Schlaub Glaß.

• /m̥, m̥ˡ, n̥, ɳ̊/ -> /spʰ, spˡʰ, stʰ, sʈʰ/

This was a result of the "Gloobification" of Schlaub, turning voiceless nasals into presibilanted plosives. The Schngellstein orthography was updated to reflect that, but not, strangely, the featural script.

• /ɬ/ -> /ʎ/

This was a result of people speaking quickly and as a result turning the lateral fricative into a lateral approximant.

• /ɨ/ -> /ɯ/

No one knows why this happened.

The eszett tone -ß was merged to the -s tone. In addition, nouns are not capitalized anymore.

Grammatical changes

The head direction changed from head-initial to head-final due to the influence of Earth Mandarin. There is also a particle that changes verbs to nouns, namely kin, borrowed from Clofabosin.

Example text: The Lord's Prayer

TODO: add IPA

fT 2300:

Ob Pa dahn, von bis ein Ntse,
Ntrob zied dzah ndöß,
Gle Dän zied ba hin,
Gleb zied dzah dlä nre Huß, dsäus dlä hin nre Ntse.
Ntrein Glob Mös dahn,
ntrein Ntsau Ntsau wi dahn,
dsäus dahn ntrein Ntsau Ntsau wi ein Ndob-Ndob ntsau.
mplön wi je ein Ndleiß Beig Gluhn Schnoh,
mplön wi je ein Nad-Ntsau-Tlieg-Ndob,
nun ein Gle Dän an ein Ndöß zied mbug.
A-Men.

fT 2400:

Ob dahn pa, von bis ein ntse,
zied ntrob dzah ndös,
zied gle dän ba hin,
gleb zied dzah dlä nre hus, dsäus dlä hin nre ntse.
Ntrein dahn mös glob-kin,
ntrein ntsau ntsau wi dahn,
dsäus dahn ntrein ntsau-kin wi ein ntsau ndob-ndob.
mplön wi je ein ndleis beig gluhn stoh,
mplön wi je ein nad-ntsau-tlieg-ndob,
nun zied gle dän an zied ndös-kin mbug.
A-men.

Phonology and orthography of Wug Nlab

The seven mainly-used orthographies of the language are:

• Hlou featural script with extensions
• Latin (Schngellstein, Riemannic spoof)
• Latin (Pinyin spoof)
• Logography-based (as a kind of "reversion back to the past")
• Earth mathematical notation, Hlou script only for Hlou words
• Trician mathematical notation, Hlou script only for Hlou words
• Hlou script, with shortenings of unneccessary null consonants/vowels

Consonants

Wug Nlab has about 65 initials:

Wug Nlab initials (Arcaschloss Schngellstein's orthography)

		Labial		Dental	Apico- alveolar		Post- alveolar	Retroflex		Palatal		Velar		Labio- velar	Glottal
		plain	lateral		plain	lateral		plain	lateral	plain	lateral	plain	lateral
Nasal		m m	ml mˡ		n n	nl nˡ		nr ɳ	nrl ɳˡ
Plosive	voiceless	p pʰ	pl pˡʰ		t tʰ	tl tˡʰ		tr ʈʰ	trl ʈˡʰ			k kʰ	kl kˡʰ
	voiced	b b	bl bˡ		d d	dl dˡ		dr ɖ	drl ɖˡ			g g	gl gˡ		ʔ
	prenasalized	mp ᵐpʰ	mpl ᵐpˡʰ		nt ⁿtʰ	ntl ⁿtˡʰ		ntr ᶯʈʰ	ntrl ᶯʈˡʰ			nk ᵑkʰ	nkl ᵑkˡʰ
		mb ᵐb	mbl ᵐbˡ		nd ⁿd			ndr ᶯɖ				ng ᵑɡ	ngl ᵑɡˡ
	presibilanted	sp spʰ	spl spˡʰ		st stʰ			str sʈʰ
Affricate	voiceless	pf pɸʰ		tþ tθʰ	ts tsʰ		ч tʃʰ
	voiced			dð dð	dz dz		џ dʒ
	prenasalized	mpf ᵐpɸʰ		ntþ ⁿtθʰ	nts ⁿtsʰ		nч ⁿtʃʰ
				ndð ⁿdð	ndz ⁿdz		nџ ⁿdʒ
Continuant	voiceless	f f	fl fˡ	þ θ	s s		σ ʃ	σr ʂ				ç ɧ~x		hw ʍ	h h
	voiced	v v			r ɹ	l l				j j	lj ʎ			w w

Vowels

Wug Nlab has 28 monophthongs; 10 short, 10 long, and 8 glottalized:

Wug Nlab vowels (Arcaschloss Schngellstein's orthography)

Short	Long	Glottalized
i i	ii iː	i' iʔ
y y	yy yː
и ɯ	ии ɯː	и' ɯʔ
u u	uu uː	u' uʔ
e e	ee eː	e' eʔ
ø ø	øø øː	ø' øʔ
ə ə	əə əː
o o	oo oː	o' oʔ
æ æ	ææ æː	æ' æʔ
a a	aa aː	a' aʔ

It also has three diphhongs: ai /ai/, au /au/ and oi /oy/.

Tones

Wug Nlab has 8 tones:

Tone letter	Tone
∅	mid level (33)
-n	low level (11)
-m	high level (55)
-k	breathy mid level (33 + breathy)
-t	breathy low level (11 + breathy)
-þ	breathy high level (55 + breathy)
-s	rising (24)
-d	falling (42)

Phonotactics

Wug Nlab has (C)VT phonotactics, with the sole exception of variable names, which are almost always syllabic voiceless plosives, nasals, or fricatives.

Morphology and grammar

Wug Nlab, like fT 2400 Schlaub, is essentially SVO, head-final, and analytic. Words from fT 2400 Schlaub are always capitalized.

Particles and grammar words

Arguably, fT 2400 Schlaub can be considered a 'register' of Wug Nlab as almost every word in the former is contained in the latter. This holds with the exception of Wug Nlab's system of grammatical particles and other words. However, the orhography is not the same, and there are a few homophones between fT 2400 Schlaub and Wug Nlab's "native" words.

It can also be considered a kind of relex of Terran mathematical notation as the infix notation works well with the overall-SVO structure of Schlaub. Some Wug Nlab users support the use of VSO word order for the language because of Classical Windermere and Trician mathematical notation, however, the SVO order is much more common.

The list of particles is entirely stolen from Quintlanic. All particles have a null initial consonant.

Lexicon

The 'native words' from Quintlanic are essentially words for physical and mathematical concepts.

Examples

as a p ym ød as Trløm Spи ad ad is as a t øm иm as и as ək øm as p ad ad ad ad as təən as t ad øm Dи tød Bəid ad

(∀p∈class(Trløm Spи))(∀t=range(function(name=(P))))(inf(t)=1/2)

Every Trlöb Schmie has 1/2 as its lowest note.

Here is the Lord's Prayer, again, but with Quintlanic/Wug Bub particles and Arcaschloss Schngellstein's orthography:

Om Da'n Pa, o oo Ntse,
Þиd Ntrom Dða' Ndøs,
Þиd Gle Dæn Ba ииn,
Glem Þиd Dða' Dlæ æ Hus, Dzois Dlæ ииn æ Ntse.
Ntrain Da'n Møs as Glom iis ad,
ət as Ntrain Ntsau Ntsau æþ æn Da'n ad,
ət as Dzois Da’n Ntrain as Ntsau iis ad æþ æn oo Ntsau Ndom-Ndom ad.
ət as Mpløn æþ æn oo Ndlais Baik Glu'n Sto' ad,
ət as Mpløn æþ æn oo Nad-Ntsau-Tlиk-Ndom ad,
øs as a p ym ød as nøø ad ad as as Gle Dæn Dða' Þиd ad is as as Ndøs iis ad Dða' ad ad.
A-Men.

Other resources

TODO: primer