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| '''Txapoalli''' is a continent in Tricin. It contains (at least) two cultural regions, which are quite different: | | '''Txapoalli''' (English: ''chah-poh-AH-lee'' or ''chap-oh-AL-ee'', [[Naquian]]: ''Txapoalli'' /tʃapoˈalːi/; [[Eevo]]: ''Nyçís'' via Windermere ''Năchis'') is the largest continent in Tricin by land area, followed by Cualuav. Txapoalli is just a geographically defined region. It contains three main cultural regions, which are quite different. |
| *Naquosphere
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| *Sjowaazhosphere
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| ==Languages== | | ==Regions== |
| TODO: more languages
| | *Naquiz: Northwest Txapoalli (closer to Talma) |
| *Naquic | | *Hetm: Central Txapoalli |
| **[[Naquian]] | | *Sowaázh daSóol: Off West Txapoalli |
| ***Tizian | | *herIdosm: East Txapoalli |
| *[[Ancient Tzaloxian]] | | *the Rencad (PTs ''*čɢenkad'') |
| *Quihum
| | *Onishia |
| **Old Sjowaazheñ
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| ***[[Sjowaazheñ]]
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| *[[Trây]] | |
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| Idea for Sjowaazhosphere: "Sinosphere languages recast as Native American languages"
| | ==History== |
| *Mandarin: Sjowaazh
| | ===Ancient=== |
| *Vietnamese: Trây
| | Proto-Sowaazhic speakers settled Sowaázh. |
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| ==Music==
| | The [[Naquian]] Empire was initially typically polytheistic, like other ancient Quihum religions. |
| ===Naquosphere===
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| Uses 7-tone neutral third scale subsets of 27edo: 6L 1s or 3L 4s
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| | The [[Hetomic]] Empire was also founded. |
| early naquians could have started out with JI
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| the difference between naquian music and etalocian music would be that the former cared more about "expressiveness" (kind of like the romantics) than harmony (making their approach to tuning more 'fluid')
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| hence, peppermint tuning!
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| that expressiveness could have come from theater
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| whereas the etalocians value precision/purity of harmony more
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| which is why the art song tradition emerged much later
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| (like even the way the instruments are built in etalocin reflect a more structurally microtonal approach)
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| that might have weird consequences for naquian "mathemusic"
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| like, naquians may think of the scale in terms of rough 'pitch classes' (formalized by CS)
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| some things that might arise in the actual music:
| | ===Medieval=== |
| 1) heavy ornamentation (trills, yodeling, falsetto, vibrato ...)
| | Near the end of Naquian Empire era there emerged a tradition of theater exploring themes that were the province of religion. This caused something of a conflict in society; the old religious authorities, who would brook no replacement of the traditional religion, took measures against the "theaterists". However it failed. |
| 2) neutral third scales (Bruno Nettl found that infants experimenting with singing tend to use neutral thirds quite a bit)
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| but no throat singing
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| choral "polyphony" of a different kind (less focused on pure harmonies and more on "gestures")
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| and Partch-style corporeality!
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| folk music of course might use just intonation with instruments that use the overtone series (like the jaw harp and overtone flutes)
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| the weird side effect is Etalocin doesn't have a "Partch figure"
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| (because Partchian music is an ancient tradition)
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| the Xaetjeon people collectively import it to Etalocin | |
| some instruments can start out as simple devices used to imitate natural phenomena (animal calls, wind, thunder ...) in theater
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| then some clever modern Naquian would find a way to capture those effects on the ngjeomsam 😀
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| let's say the emphasis on neutral thirds leads to a rough division of the octave into 7 parts
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| and a 27 tone octave (that's another neutral third MOS)
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| though the closest i can get to 7edo in 27edo is 4 4 4 3 4 4 4
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| or 4 4 4 4 3 4 4 for a mode with a perfect fifth
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| that gives me an idea for terminology
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| each step in 7edo can be likened to a lunar cycle (divided into 4 parts, full moon, waning, new moon and waxing)
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| there will be overlap between the "full moon" of the first step and the "waxing" part of the last step (since there are 27 and not 28 steps in the naquian octave)
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| or the step that's subdivided into 3 can be considered "defective"
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| this "micro"-subdivision is used in two places
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| 1) with instruments of fixed pitch
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| 2) in pedagogic methods so students can get a rough idea as to where the intervals lie
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| (for students of voice and flexible pitch instruments)
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| Sgutsitn could give the name '["Naquian tuning"]' to tetracot temperament 😀
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| or '["Naquian temperament"]' (a misnomer on many levels!)
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| in fact a 7 step octave would make it possible for a notation a lot like our staff notation to be adopted in the naquosphere! (leaving etalocians with something symbolic like daseian?)
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| a possible naquian notation
| | ===Modern=== |
| the 27 tone "scale"
| | Silphium Wars? |
| (dots signify raising and lowering by discrete quantities, fancier shapes next to the notes are used for other ornaments)
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| sounds like C Db Ed Fd(trilled with G) G->F#->G kind of
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| often played as 1/1 21/20 5/4 9/7 3/2->10/7->3/2 on the sewvore
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| ===Sjowaazhosphere=== | | ==Names== |
| Tuning-wise, Sjowaazheñ music is based on the meantone diatonic scale like Western music, but uses modal rather than tonal harmony; modes other than major and minor are common.
| | The Eevo name ''Nycís'' probably derives from a form of ''Naquiz'', borrowed through Windermere. |
| | ==Geography== |
| | *Arpala Mountains |
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| ==Historical figures== | | ==Languages== |
| *Quēhtłoyoz - [[Naquian]] grammarian
| | TODO: more languages. |
| *Huichaltzah - [[Naquian]] explorer, conlanger and playwright
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| *Mauaz nah Païxa - [[Tzaloxian]] explorer
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| *Wañjeyi - [[Sjowaazheñ]] poet
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| ==Religion==
| | Language families: |
| ===Naquian===
| | *[[Lakovic languages]] |
| Early polytheism turns into sci-fi - but then what?
| | **[[!Zoom]] |
| ===Sjowaazheñ===
| | **[[Qlenziêr]] |
| Jotting down ideas
| | *[[Tsimulh languages]] |
| | | **[[Hetomic]] |
| Sjowaazheñ religion is Basically Buddhism but more proselytizing. They apply the concept of karma and reincarnation to the world collectively in addition to individual humans. That's how the world itself began and ended many times; if humanity collectively behaves badly enough, an apocalypse will come due to the accrued karmic debt and a new universe will arise from the ashes. [I'm not going to use exactly these terms - it's not exactly a "relex" of Buddhism.]
| | **[[Pelhyys]] |
| | | **[[Idosian]] |
| Karma/sin and payoffs - The genius of Christianity is to subvert this (in a really twisted way, perhaps)
| | **[[Rencadian]] |
| | **[[Sacred Swuntsim]] |
| | ***[[Swuntsim]] |
| | *[[Quame languages]] |
| | **[[Naquian]] |
| | ***[[Tizian]] |
| | ***a pseudo-Georgian/Nuxálk |
| | ***[[Whehmer]] |
| | ***Other Naquic languages |
| | *[[Sowaár]] |
| | *[[Witcanese]] |
| | *Arpalan |
| | **[[Varquun]] |
| | *Onishic |
| | **Ejectivepolyvietnamese |
| | *A fifth family (dependent marking, honorific mania) |
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| ==Places==
| | Common features: |
| *Tuipa-Faäni/Uānithazza - capital of Naquian Empire | | *Larger than average consonant inventories, often with ejectives, affricates, and lateral obstruents (Tsimulh, most of Naquic, and Sowaazhic) |
| *Shjhedaad = ancient capital of Sjowaazh | | *One area with aeiou, one area with tendency toward small vowel inventories |
| | *Pitch accent or tone (Lakovic, Sowaazhic) |
| | *Rich politeness/honorific system (especially Quihum) |
| | *Bantu-style noun classes (especially Tsimulh) |
| | *Active-stative-ish tendencies |
| | *Relational nouns |
| | *Head-marking tendency (Hetomic) |
| [[Category:Tricin]] | | [[Category:Tricin]] |