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Unveiled: An account of Eulian influence on Rullastin Culture Regarding the Sgaarqati Gender in the Age of Regress (65 to 1400 c.)

It is not widely recognized that Sgaarqati could play a significant roll economically or culturally in the Rullastin culture even if only as the exceptional individual especially in age of regression. Of course, the evidence for the period of 65 to 1400 c. is sparse and inconclusive, but what has survived can serve to disprove the notion of masculine superiority present in todays high society. Eulian influence within Rullastin culture brought about a new cast of people originally thought of as a women, the Sgaarqati. While in lower levels of society these infertile men and women were often kept as slaves or servants, in high society these so called Sgaarqati were given a major political role to play. They threatened neither the master’s authority nor the mistress’ purity and quickly became considered a third gender within Rullastin culture, favored especially within the upper classes, mirroring the way they were perceived in Eulian high society. First, a glance at their prominence. It ...
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Suli Ang Register: Hiuang "The Voice"

Hituang "The Voice" Hituang is Suli Ang's fourth register. It includes two new verb moods: Aturii the magic optative and Atumai the magic imperative. These are separate conjugation forms than their non-magic counterparts and the effective magic “schools” for Hituang. Hituang also includes the vocative case, a case classically missing from other Suli Ang registers. Speaking in a predefined way using the Hituang register creates magical effects, bending reality to the user's will based upon their performance and complexity of the command spoken. Invoking the name of a deity or spirit is required to conjure magical effects if one has not bound themself to a deity or spirit already. When doing so, the deity or spirit’s name must be in the vocative. Saanatuqatiyn sasniha ! evil-make-agnz-voc burn-1sg/2sg.imp O' Sinmaker I beseech you, set this ablaze . Once one has bound themself to a deity or spirit, their name is implicitly invoked whenever a magical form is spoken. ...

Let's Make a Language: Day 18, Let's Talk About Time

The Kautsa speak about the past as behind behind them and the future as being in front of them, much like English, but unlike English, time is not a currency to be spent in Munya, it is more often likened to produce or food. Time cannot run out, but it can go bad, stale, or rot, meaning it must be renewed by traveling or moving on. You cannot buy time, but you can cultivate it or hunt for it. Myai na neme lyo. [mʲai51 na ne1me lʲo] day TOP stales CONT (this) day stales time grows short Expressions referencing time as "rotting" are similar to English's concept of "wasting" time. Mesane hiwa bol. [mes1sane5 xiwa pʰol1] time-1POSS give rot you let your time rot you wasted your time

Let's Make a Language: Day 17, Naming People

Today we're naming people in Munya! I've decided that Kautsa names will have four parts: Given name (represents something desirable about them or their future) Birth Order Number Clan name Family name (surname, usually an occupation or quality By the way these are ordered, and by what information this culture has elected to include, you can learn much about them. Of course the most important piece of information used to identify a Kautsa person would be their given name, but the second most valuable piece of information to a Munya speaker is birth order. This feeds into a system of numerology that the Kautsa believe in that I may or may not go into depth with later. So with the parts of a name down, let's create a sample name! Mimi Ledyi Kaulahenyali Matolyai [mi5.mi5 le.tʲʰi kau.la.xe.ɲa1.li1 ma5.to.lʲai5] beautiful fourth they_herd_sheep hunter So this hypothetical Kautsa is Mimi Matolyai, fourth born of the Kaulahenyali clan.

Let's Make a Language: Day 16, Naming Places

Now that we have a good basis for the language, this is usually where I'd start worldbuilding more to create more vocabulary and flesh out the language. So today, let's name some places. Here's a slice of the world, Nome as Munya speakers would call it, with all of my previous worldbuilding factions and peoples put onto the map for reference. Serazara, the place with the Giants, Nimmen, Dragons, and Sioghaxx happens to be the most crowded at this time. The group of people who speak Munya need a name, so lets name them first. This language likes to use descriptive phrases, so I've decided on calling them the Kautsabuleno [kau.t͡sa1.pʰu.lə.no1] or the "they live on the steppes" or the Kautsa for short. The area where the Kautsa live is a mostly hilly terrain, wet, and cold with little tree covering. We have two words already [to5] and [fo] which are used to make place names, the former being used for mounds or hills and the second being a generic area term. So a...

Let's Make a Language: Day 15, Temporal and Spatial "Adverbs"

In Munya, words for spaces and for times often share the same word, such as with the word [tʲi5] which can mean either "by/beside" or "co-occuring/at the same time as", the meaning must be implied by context or through the use of helper words. Its spatial and temporal "adverbs" are no different. I say "adverbs" because it mostly uses postpositional phrases in the place of adverbs in a similar way as a few entries ago when we created the phrase [tʲo so tʲi5] literally "by the foot" to mean "this". In this vein, I've created two new phrases. The first expresses "here/now" Bal so tyi [pʰal so tʲi5] which would literally mean "by/along the path", drawing a connection between being off the path as "here and now" whereas its counterpart Bal so hi [pʰal so xi], "on the path", meaning "then/there". We were on the path, traveling, but now we are talking so we are here, off to the s...

Let's Make a Language: Day 14, Numbers, Numbers, Numbers

Happy Valentines day! Today is a super quick one, we're working on numbers some more. Nouns in Munya appear in their singular form when co-occuring with number, so instead of English's "one apple, two apples, three apples..." a Munya speaker would say "one apple, two apple, three apple..." Pa ba, nai ba, tsa ba... Now, what if a Munya speaker wanted to say "the first apple, the second apple, the third apple..."? They would use the superlative suffix -dyi to create a series of ordinal numbers. Padyi ba, naidyi ba, tsadyi ba...  I also want a way to make adverbial numbers like English's "once, twice, thrice...". I decided that a Munya speaker would simply have to put the number into the genitive case to create this distinction. Pa fa, nai fa, tsa fa... Right now a Munya speaker has no way to count above ten, so let's create some compound numbers. All numbers from 11 to 19 will follow the same pattern of "10 by x", for exam...