Bright languages

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 Middle-earth.

Introduction

Bright Tongue vs Dark Tongue

• lack of gutturals vs lack of labials
• synthesis vs agglutination
• words don't repeat vs words repeat
• diphthongs allowed vs diphthongs forbidden
• only sonorants as coda vs anything as coda except sonorants
• constraints

Dark tongues may access /ɥ/

K [associated with choking

P [associated with kissing

In Veno's Dark Tongue gog yoguguluk "the man speaks to me about them"

yo- "speak" + -gu- [first person] + -g- [epenthetic particle] +-ul- [third person] + -uk [generic person]

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

rleh "city", kthullu "god"

Laiberim Ungrauzuru Trizandir Naevalla