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| Bright languages are constructed languages intended to be aesthetically pleasing, predictable, and stable in utterance.
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| | Bright languages are constructed languages often intended to be aesthetically pleasing, predictable, and phonologically stable. Examples are the elvish languages from J R. R. Tolkien's [[w:Middle-earth|Middle-earth]]. |
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| ==Introduction== | | ==Introduction== |
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| | Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue<br> |
| | *lack of gutturals vs lack of labials |
| | *synthesis vs anathesis |
| | *words don't repeat vs words repeat |
| | *diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden |
| | *only sonorants as free coda vs only stops as free coda |
| | *constraints... |
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| | '''The catch is that no Bright or Dark Tongue is fully understood. The former is far too complicated (though steady) to be learned by Men, while the latter is easily taught in vain, as its dialects change rapidly compared to a human's life span.''' |
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| ==Phonology==
| | Dark tongues may access /ɥ/ |
| The bright version of Adamic has 3 vowels (4 with the diphthong) and 8 consonants, with the reason being that as a bright language strives to contain the most stable and distinct phonetic features, many possibilities are consciously deleted (mostly dorsal ones). For example, velar stops such as /k/ are problematic, as forms akin to /ku/ and /ki/ have the tendence to inevitably change to /kʷ/~/b/ or /kʲ/~/t͡ʃ/. Likewise, back vowels are totally erased, not only to contrast with dark tongues (which do not accept front vowels), but to avoid the sound change /du/ > /dʷ/~/b/.
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| ===Sound Laws===
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| | In Veno's Dark Tongue |
| | ''gog yoguguluk'' "X speaks" |
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| | ''yo-'' "X" + ''-gu-'' [X] + ''-g-'' [X] +''-ul-'' [X] + ''-uk'' [X] |
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| *Voicing [C̥VC̬VC̥]: due the influence of vocalic weight, consonants between vowels are voiced while initial and final consonants are voiceless
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| *Lenition: due the displeasure of mimesis, if two bordering syllables/syllable portions possess the same consonant, the consonant of the weakest syllable (portion) disappears.<br>
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| EX: Adamic ''vāl'' "person" and ''vār'' "people" become ''alf, alber'' and ''elbi'' respectively in the Bright Tongue [''alf'' instead of ''*falf''].<br>
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| *Assimilation:
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| *Harmony: [a > e > i] or [i > e > a]<br>
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| *Mutation: consonants extend grade until there is only one.<br>
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| m/n + p -mb [extension of p]<br>
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| m/n + t -nd [extension of t]<br>
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| r/l + f -lb [extension of l]<br>
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| r/l + c -rd [extension of r]<br>
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| r/l + m = -lm [extension of m]<br>
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| r/l + n = -rn [extension of n]<br>
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| */s/ and /d/ can only happen before /a/, and if the opposite were to happen, the nucleus would be dropped.
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| EX: The hypothetical ''iridin'' becomes ''eren''
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| *Due the tendence of final consonants to be easily lost, only consonant clusters and sonorants are allowed as final codas. Also, final /m/ and /n/ disappear as the precedent vowel is nasalized.
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| This bright tongue calls those processes ''car'' and ''fabel''
| | sebeze paddaen adres nirdasbar vs zhogodosh kaktatona atrosh nurtaskara |
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| | ''ídrā naiaris'' "I was bitten by a serpent", ''siverae aebidis'' "I was bitten by a mosquito" ... |
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| alba "people" [alf, elbi]
| | nazil "flower", naevalla "sword" |
| arda "things" [arc, irida]
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| alma "high faculties" [a, elmi]
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| arna "emotions, sensations" [an, erni]
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| amba "time" [amf, embi]
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| anda "space" [anc, inida]
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| endar "land", arni "lands"
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| embal "celestial body", ambeli...
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| | belep (nom) bellī (pl) albā (col)<br> |
| | bel (acc) parabel (pl) ambī (col)<br> |
| | elbī (gen) il (pl) pasadarvā (col)<br> |
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| | gog, gog-nagog<br> |
| | gogash, gog-nagogash<br> |
| | gogu, gog-nagogu<br> |
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| NA > ni [0], nae [1]
| | *Belep vs gog |
| alba enir
| | *Balardemea vs kalaradunga |
| ni, pe, ae
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| ANDA
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| | Mixed Breed Dark Tongue: |
| | ''gog yoguguluk dash'' /ɠɔɠ ɥoɠuɠuɠuluk daʃ/ |
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| nao aocar i
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| | Pure Breed Dark Tongue: |
| | ''kꜣ̥k yꜣ̥kwkwlwk tsh'' /ƙħ̩ƙ ɥ̊ħ̩ƙʷƙʷlʷƙ tʃ/ |
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| ni erec alber
| | Vocabulary drawn from the Lovecraft Mythos, Tolkien's Legendarium ... |
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| | ''rꜣlyẙh khlw̥hllw'' "city", ''kl̥ rꜣ̥k'' "demon", ''ns̥k kw̥l'' "ghost", ''shw̥k nw̥kwrth'' "goat" |
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| *one article
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| *no declension
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| *context and syntax play important role
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| ni arc alber
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| ni erec alber =/= ni erec er alf
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| ni irida alber
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| mi irida elbi
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| er alf, alber
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| | Ungrauzuru |
| | Trizandir |
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| er enc, endar
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| er ec, edar
| | If without D-equilibrium: |
| | *Language rich in consonants and no vowels |
| | *Language rich in vowels and no consonants |
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| mer endar
| | *Language rich in intersegmentals and no metasegmentals |
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| | ''wl̥krꜣn'' /w̥l̩krħn̥/, ''kl̥x'' /kl̩ks/, ''wr̥l'' /w̥r̩l/, ''kr̥kt'' /kr̩kt/, ''tn̥c'' /tn̩ts/, ''tn̥k'' /tn̩k/ ''nẙx'' /n̥ĭks/, ''lw̥kwky'' /l̥ŭkʷkʲ/, ''sꜣ̥t'' /sʕ̩t/. |
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| ird
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| ni, mi
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| ec, fe
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| al, ar
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| | 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". |
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| | 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". |
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| mi irida ilmini ec
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| | 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. |
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| Adamic verb
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| rā > ar
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| arú > erec
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| ārú > irida
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| ar ereC iriCV
| | important remark: anathesis is not that the components don't have meaning, but that the composition has a novel meaning because of them |
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| | ==Phonology== |
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| nua sit, askút
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| ni eren
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| ni irida ederen
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| sikt > ren
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| hil > ...
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| anu/nua > ni
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| ani/nia > nae
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| ana/nā > na
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| ''Elbi irida ni indili'' = ''Ara avâla ana ahalâ''
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| Ni irida ereden, ec cilma
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| Tua hícal, rī askút
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| hil > ciren?
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| -h-c-l- > indili
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| ni irida andal
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| erec & irida > -c-
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| ciren (n), ederen (v)
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| cilba (n), indili (v)
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| -s-k-t- > ciren, cirendë
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| ===Prosody===
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| ====Stress====
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| ====Intonation====
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| ===Phonotactics===
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| <!-- Explain the consonant clusters and vowel clusters that are permissible for use in the language. For example, "st" is an allowed consonant cluster in English while onset "ng" isn't. -->
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| ===Morphophonology===
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| ==Morphology==
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| The Bright Tongue is mostly composed of stems, which modify roots.
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| ni irida eren...
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| From one root, many stems are forged
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| ncl > ner (*nendir), cilba, arnic, nalbi (*nadelbi)...
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| ALMA > ELEME
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| eldar (alba-endar)
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| erbal (arda-elbar)
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| ilben, ilbini
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| eleben, af
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| lef, felin
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| ilmen, ilmini
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| elemen, am
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| eredem, erc
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| rec, cerin
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