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 Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue<br>
 *lack of gutturals vs lack of labials
-*synthesis vs agglutination
+*synthesis vs anathesis
 *words don't repeat vs words repeat
 *diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden
-*only sonorants as coda vs anything as coda except sonorants
+*only sonorants as free coda vs only stops as free coda
-*constraints
+*constraints...
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 In Veno's Dark Tongue
-''gog yoguguluk'' "the man speaks to me about them"
+''gog yoguguluk'' "X speaks"
-''yo-'' "speak" + ''-gu-'' [first person] + ''-g-'' [epenthetic particle] +''-ul-'' [third person] + ''-uk'' [generic person]
+''yo-'' "X" + ''-gu-'' [X] + ''-g-'' [X] +''-ul-'' [X] + ''-uk'' [X]
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 *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  ...
-rleh "city", kthullu "god", galrog "demon", nazg "ring", gul "ghost", shug "goat", nugurath "black",
+''rꜣlyẙh khlw̥hllw'' "city", ''kl̥ rꜣ̥k'' "demon", ''ns̥k kw̥l'' "ghost", ''shw̥k nw̥kwrth'' "goat"
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 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==