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Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue<br>
Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue<br>
*lack of gutturals vs lack of labials
*lack of gutturals vs lack of labials
*synthesis vs agglutination
*synthesis vs anathesis
*words don't repeat vs words repeat
*words don't repeat vs words repeat
*diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden
*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
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
*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  ...
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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*Language rich in intersegmentals and no metasegmentals
*Language rich in intersegmentals and no metasegmentals


''wl̥krꜣn'' /w̥l̩krħn̥/, ''kl̥kt'' /kl̩kt/, ''wr̥l'' /w̥r̩l/, ''kr̥kt'' /kr̩kt/, ''tn̥c'' /tn̩ts/, ''tn̥k'' /tn̩k/ ''nẙx'' /n̥ĭks/, ''lw̥kwky'' /l̥w̩kʷkʲ/, ''sꜣ̥t'' /sʕ̩t/.
''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 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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gog yoguguluk dash /ɠɔɠ ɥoɠuɠuɠuluk daʃ/ [Mixed Breed Dark Tongue]
kw̥k yw̥kwkwlwk tꜣ̥sh /ƙʼw̩ƙ ɥw̩ƙʷƙʷlʷƙ tʕ̩ʃ/ [Pure Breed Dark Tongue]






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.
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
degrees of purity