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Bright languages are constructed languages often intended to be aesthetically pleasing, predictable, and phonologically stable. | |||
==Introduction== | ==Introduction== | ||
Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue<br> | |||
*lack of gutturals vs lack of labials ex. bel vs gog | |||
*synthesis vs anathesis | |||
*sounds don't repeat in the syllable ex. Bel | |||
*diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden | |||
*only sonorants as free coda vs only stops as free coda | |||
*constraints... | |||
Dark tongues may access /ɥ/ | |||
ple pel lep elp | |||
tra tar rat art | |||
āmps ambi abe bel ela ilba psā (amba alba) | |||
ānts andi ade dar era irda tsā (anta arda) | |||
belep, bellat | |||
K [associated with choking | |||
P [associated with kissing | |||
In Veno's Dark Tongue | |||
''gog yoguguluk'' "X speaks" | |||
''yo-'' "X" + ''-gu-'' [X] + ''-g-'' [X] +''-ul-'' [X] + ''-uk'' [X] | |||
sebeze paddaen adres nirdasbar vs zhogodosh kaktatona atrosh nurtaskara | |||
''ídrā naiaris'' "I was bitten by a serpent", ''siverae aebidis'' "I was bitten by a mosquito" ... | |||
nazil "flower", naevalla "sword" | |||
belep (nom) bellī (pl) albā (col)<br> | |||
bel (acc) parabel (pl) ambī (col)<br> | |||
elbī (gen) il (pl) pasadarvā (col)<br> | |||
vs | |||
gog, gog-nagog<br> | |||
gogash, gog-nagogash<br> | |||
gogu, gog-nagogu<br> | |||
*Belep vs gog | |||
*Balardemea vs kalaradunga | |||
Mixed Breed Dark Tongue: | |||
''gog yoguguluk dash'' /ɠɔɠ ɥoɠuɠuɠuluk daʃ/ | |||
Pure Breed Dark Tongue: | |||
''kꜣ̥k yꜣ̥kwkwlwk tsh'' /ƙħ̩ƙ ɥ̊ħ̩ƙʷƙʷlʷƙ tʃ/ | |||
Vocabulary drawn from the Lovecraft Mythos, Tolkien's Legendarium ... | |||
''rꜣlyẙh khlw̥hllw'' "city", ''kl̥ rꜣ̥k'' "demon", ''ns̥k kw̥l'' "ghost", ''shw̥k nw̥kwrth'' "goat" | |||
Laiberim | |||
Ungrauzuru | |||
Trizandir | |||
Naevalla | |||
If without D-equilibrium: | |||
*Language rich in consonants and no vowels | |||
*Language rich in vowels and no consonants | |||
*Language rich in intersegmentals and no metasegmentals | |||
''wl̥krꜣn'' /w̥l̩krħn̥/, ''kl̥x'' /kl̩ks/, ''wr̥l'' /w̥r̩l/, ''kr̥kt'' /kr̩kt/, ''tn̥c'' /tn̩ts/, ''tn̥k'' /tn̩k/ ''nẙx'' /n̥ĭks/, ''lw̥kwky'' /l̥ŭkʷkʲ/, ''sꜣ̥t'' /sʕ̩t/. | |||
/jɪee̞ɛæa īi̯/ | |||
īy ay "the man", ī īnain "the mountain" | |||
A pure anathetic language would rather focus on the combinations of words than the words themselves (meaningless individually in this case): In Veno's Dark Tongue, associations strike as grammatical in zodrak hu "dog" versus hu zodrak "cat". | |||
A pure magis-synthetic language focuses instead on words of a variety of meanings. In Veno's Bright Tongue, elbī is a genitive of "person". | |||
Anathesis: In Portuguese, ''ca'' alone means nothing, as does ''sa'', yet ''casa'' means "house". Synthesis: In Latin, the particle ''-orum'' means not only [genitive], but also [plural] and [masculine]/[neuter]. Agglutination, on the other hand, is the neutral morphological nature. | |||
degrees of purity | |||
important remark: anathesis is not that the components don't have meaning, but that the composition has a novel meaning because of them | |||
== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Sound Laws=== | |||
==Syntax== | ==Syntax== | ||
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Bright languages are constructed languages often intended to be aesthetically pleasing, predictable, and phonologically stable.
Introduction
Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue
- lack of gutturals vs lack of labials ex. bel vs gog
- synthesis vs anathesis
- sounds don't repeat in the syllable ex. Bel
- diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden
- only sonorants as free coda vs only stops as free coda
- constraints...
Dark tongues may access /ɥ/
ple pel lep elp
tra tar rat art
āmps ambi abe bel ela ilba psā (amba alba)
ānts andi ade dar era irda tsā (anta arda)
belep, bellat
K [associated with choking
P [associated with kissing
In Veno's Dark Tongue
gog yoguguluk "X speaks"
yo- "X" + -gu- [X] + -g- [X] +-ul- [X] + -uk [X]
sebeze paddaen adres nirdasbar vs zhogodosh kaktatona atrosh nurtaskara
ídrā naiaris "I was bitten by a serpent", siverae aebidis "I was bitten by a mosquito" ...
nazil "flower", naevalla "sword"
belep (nom) bellī (pl) albā (col)
bel (acc) parabel (pl) ambī (col)
elbī (gen) il (pl) pasadarvā (col)
vs
gog, gog-nagog
gogash, gog-nagogash
gogu, gog-nagogu
- Belep vs gog
- Balardemea vs kalaradunga
Mixed Breed Dark Tongue:
gog yoguguluk dash /ɠɔɠ ɥoɠuɠuɠuluk daʃ/
Pure Breed Dark Tongue:
kꜣ̥k yꜣ̥kwkwlwk tsh /ƙħ̩ƙ ɥ̊ħ̩ƙʷƙʷlʷƙ tʃ/
Vocabulary drawn from the Lovecraft Mythos, Tolkien's Legendarium ...
rꜣlyẙh khlw̥hllw "city", kl̥ rꜣ̥k "demon", ns̥k kw̥l "ghost", shw̥k nw̥kwrth "goat"
Laiberim
Ungrauzuru
Trizandir
Naevalla
If without D-equilibrium:
- Language rich in consonants and no vowels
- Language rich in vowels and no consonants
- Language rich in intersegmentals and no metasegmentals
wl̥krꜣn /w̥l̩krħn̥/, kl̥x /kl̩ks/, wr̥l /w̥r̩l/, kr̥kt /kr̩kt/, tn̥c /tn̩ts/, tn̥k /tn̩k/ nẙx /n̥ĭks/, lw̥kwky /l̥ŭkʷkʲ/, sꜣ̥t /sʕ̩t/.
/jɪee̞ɛæa īi̯/
īy ay "the man", ī īnain "the mountain"
A pure anathetic language would rather focus on the combinations of words than the words themselves (meaningless individually in this case): In Veno's Dark Tongue, associations strike as grammatical in zodrak hu "dog" versus hu zodrak "cat".
A pure magis-synthetic language focuses instead on words of a variety of meanings. In Veno's Bright Tongue, elbī is a genitive of "person".
Anathesis: In Portuguese, ca alone means nothing, as does sa, yet casa means "house". Synthesis: In Latin, the particle -orum means not only [genitive], but also [plural] and [masculine]/[neuter]. Agglutination, on the other hand, is the neutral morphological nature.
degrees of purity
important remark: anathesis is not that the components don't have meaning, but that the composition has a novel meaning because of them