Arayaz wrote: ↑09 Jun 2024 03:08
Khemehekis, a couple questions about Lehola:
How long has globeseeding/bioswaths been a technology? How has it evolved over its history?
Globeseeding was first invented 3 billion Earth-years ago by the Greys on the planet Hmtcha, which orbited a now-dead sun named Pn. The Hmtchans copied all the DNA from the species on Hmtcha and used them to colonize the planet Bt!a in the solar system Nu. Bt!a still has Greys today, even though Pn has since blown up.
Over the last 3 billion years, the technology behind globeseeding has grown to include bioswaths beyond the Grey (and other cetacean) bioswaths. Globeseeders were later created for bunches of species that naturally evolve on planets with the human bioswath or the various reptoid bioswaths, for instance. And they didn't stop with planets that had the phylum Chordata, either. 2.1 billion years ago they worked with Domeheads (which have many of the same invertebrates and plants as are in the human bioswath, but not Chordata), and 1.6 billion years ago they worked with other green plant bioswaths. By 1.3 billion years ago it was basically possible to populate the most common species from any given tyashus species' bioswath, no matter how alien they may seem to humans (or Greys).
That's ... a remarkably slow timeline of change in technology.
How else has Lehola changed over those 3 billion years??
Arayaz wrote: ↑09 Jun 2024 03:08
Khemehekis, a couple questions about Lehola:
How long has globeseeding/bioswaths been a technology? How has it evolved over its history?
Globeseeding was first invented 3 billion Earth-years ago by the Greys on the planet Hmtcha, which orbited a now-dead sun named Pn. The Hmtchans copied all the DNA from the species on Hmtcha and used them to colonize the planet Bt!a in the solar system Nu. Bt!a still has Greys today, even though Pn has since blown up.
Over the last 3 billion years, the technology behind globeseeding has grown to include bioswaths beyond the Grey (and other cetacean) bioswaths. Globeseeders were later created for bunches of species that naturally evolve on planets with the human bioswath or the various reptoid bioswaths, for instance. And they didn't stop with planets that had the phylum Chordata, either. 2.1 billion years ago they worked with Domeheads (which have many of the same invertebrates and plants as are in the human bioswath, but not Chordata), and 1.6 billion years ago they worked with other green plant bioswaths. By 1.3 billion years ago it was basically possible to populate the most common species from any given tyashus species' bioswath, no matter how alien they may seem to humans (or Greys).
That's ... a remarkably slow timeline of change in technology.
I just came up with that off the cuff. To be honest, I'd never thought about how globeseeding evolved over the years before you asked the question. Maybe I can rewrite it to beginning with 2,984,610,000 Earth-years ago, and every hundred years thereafter, have a sea-change expansion of the taxonomic proximity to Greys (which are cetaceans in the Leholaverse): 2,984,609,000 Earth-years ago, globeseeding would work for other mammal-sapient bioswaths; 2,984,608,000 Earth-years ago, it would work for other amniote-sapient bioswaths; 2,984,607,000 Earth-years ago, they'd develop the technology for planets with sapients like the Domeheads, and so on.
I imagine some kinks would be ironed out as globeseeding advanced, but the Hmtchans were advanced enough by the time they invented globeseeding not to make the rookie mistake of failing to establish bacteria before placing other life that doomed the 1990's Biosphere 2 experiment on Earth.
How else has Lehola changed over those 3 billion years??
The Bodusians -- the Domeheads living on Bodus -- have reached moral perfection after millions and millions of years of sapient evolution. The bhur, a red-skinned sapient species with a red plant bioswath, left their planet Agwan after its sun Istar became too hot to live ynder and terraformed and globeseeded the planet New Agwan of the sun New Istar, taking their plants and animals with them. (The old) Istar has since blown up and died. The chais of Keitel have developed into an immensely brainy species and created custom ecosystems across their planet, all the while creating searchable catalogues of all the surviving writings and knowledge from the history of their planet over the millennia and myriads. Lifespeeding was invented, and genetic engineering and regening perfected, so thousands and thousands of years ago, the Greys of Tziel were able to genetically engineer the humans known as Shaleyans, which these fundamentalist Tzielites considered a disastrous experiment in retrospect. FTL travel was invented, and the Law of Secrecy was established by the Interplanetary Council (which was formed a few millennia ago -- a relative Augenblick in Leholan history) so that advanced planets may no longer interfere with planets that are not thought to be "ready" for becoming a part of the galaxy (although crackcreepers are allowed). And most recently, scientists have been working with the glomas of the planet Doyatl to discover how they time-travel, and develop time-travel technology that will be useful for archaeological purposes.
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Just added a new animal: the pineapple shell, a class of Junsuvian molluscs with a shell resembling the outside of a pineapple. The count of words on my master species list went up by one.
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The Doyatl stood out for me. A lively addition to the mixture. As a time traveling species, the culture and language families may alter depending on the time projects. Those who time bend may be a bit different when they come back versus the ones who stay at the home planet. Unless they all travel, like how sailors differ a bit from land dwellers. Having passed through the shores of time, each group holds new possibilities for influence as well as being influenced. Each time adventure is sure to enrich them. Special connections with cosmic authorities? Services for hire? Healing species who’ve deviated from their planned out timelines? So many possibilities. I wish you well on this projects. Cheers
Nike_Noor wrote: ↑27 Jul 2024 18:15
The Doyatl stood out for me. A lively addition to the mixture. As a time traveling species, the culture and language families may alter depending on the time projects. Those who time bend may be a bit different when they come back versus the ones who stay at the home planet. Unless they all travel, like how sailors differ a bit from land dwellers. Having passed through the shores of time, each group holds new possibilities for influence as well as being influenced. Each time adventure is sure to enrich them. Special connections with cosmic authorities? Services for hire? Healing species who’ve deviated from their planned out timelines? So many possibilities. I wish you well on this projects. Cheers
Thank you! Welcome to the board, Nike_Noor.
As for the glomas of Doyatl, I imagined the ancient glomas building tall towers with plumbing, and speaking languages like the one in my dream with the syllabic glyphs. Except now I want to make the ancient language use uniliterals, biliterals, and triliterals like Egyptian, not syllabic glyphs. Glomas from today would go back to the Doyatl of the past and learn all the ancient languages, so they could learn to read the ancient characters. Then the time travelers would go back to their own original timeline in the present, without having altered the course of their own time by visiting the past.
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qh-xh-hw-h-f-dd-s’, or "fire-earth-water-air-sound-meaning-system"
This is a neat little metaconlang (meaning it's constructed even within the fictional world of Lehola) that I whipped up. qh-xh-hw-h-f-dd-s’ was invented by fortune-tellers and other esotericists in Tenta (a country on the human planet of Junsu) centuries ago. qh-xh-hw-h-f-dd-s’ cards (which are called kagwahafadasa cards in Tentan) are cards (like Tarot cards) that come 128 to a pack. Each of the 128 cards carries a meaning, often primal or elemental, and each is associated with its own number and its own phoneme. They can be used to tell fortunes, and the esotericists of Tenta have developed their own oligosynthetic language based on the 128 cards and their meanings.
As you can see, a hyphen is used to separate each two phoneme-graphemes within a word when transliterating in the Roman alphabet.
0 void oo /u/
1 boy b /b/
2 girl p /p/
3 man d /d/
4 woman t /t/
5 existence c /c/
6 life j /ɟ/
7 seed q /q/
8 egg x /ɢ/
9 child ee /i/
10 space o /o/
11 dimension e /e/
12 time a /a/
13 wave l /ɫ/
14 point ng /ŋ/
15 absence m /m/
16 negation n /n/
17 positive s /s/
18 opposite ae /æ/
19 change oe /œ/
20 sun l /l/
21 moon ny /ɲ/
22 star sh /ʃ/
23 sensation zh /ʒ/
24 light sr /ʂ/
25 heat zr /ʐ/
26 sound f /f/
27 contact v /v/
28 smell th /θ/
29 matter dh /ð/
30 mass ch /ç/
31 element jh /ʝ/
32 shape kh /x/
33 circle gh /ɣ/
34 fire qh /χ/
35 earth xh /ʁ/
36 water hw /ʍ/
37 air h /ɦ/
38 metal z /z/
39 rock hh /ħ/
40 dust i /ɪ/
41 thing ah /ɑ/
42 plant ih /ɨ/
43 wood ou /ɯ/
44 flower aw /ɔ/
45 fruit eo /ʌ/
46 carbohydrate ph /ɸ/
47 animal bh /β/
48 bug vw /ʋ/
49 fish pr /ʙ̥/
50 bird br /ʙ/
51 person oa /ɒ/
52 body uu /ɤ/
53 part uy /ʏ/
54 skin ar /ɐ/
55 hair rl /ɹ/
56 blood lzh /ɮ/
57 food n’ /ɴ/
58 sugar pp linguolabial trill
59 salt p_h /ph/
60 acid t_h /th/
61 fiber c_h /ch/
62 building k_h /kh/
63 mind q_h /qh/
64 spirit lg /ʟ/
65 motion r /ɾ/
66 position p’ /pʼ/
67 connection t’ /tʼ/
68 combination tt’ /ʈʼ/
69 division c’ /cʼ/
70 relation k’ /kʼ/
71 alternative q’ /qʼ/
72 direction h’ /ʡʼ/
73 emotion ph’ /ɸʼ/
74 rule f’ /fʼ/
75 governance th’ /θʼ/
76 system s’ /sʼ/
77 necessity sh’ /ʃʼ/
78 problem sr’ /ʂʼ/
79 group kh’ /xʼ/
80 some qh’ /χʼ/
81 all rr /r/
82 more lh /ɬ/
83 type p? /pʕ/
84 similarity b? /bʕ/
85 other t? /tʕ/
86 method d? /dʕ/
87 size k? /kʕ/
88 number g? /gʕ/
89 equation s? /sʕ/
90 degree z? /zʕ/
91 cause sh? /ʃʕ/
92 purpose zh? /ʒʕ/
93 multitude th? /θʕ/
94 condition dh? /ðʕ/
95 good m? /mʕ/
96 conflict n? /nʕ/
97 thought l? /lʕ/
98 truth ly /ʎ/
99 consciousness bb /ɓ/
100 desire g /g/
101 meaning dd /ɗ/
102 action k /k/
103 event jj /ʄ/
104 location xx /ʛ/
105 ability ko /kʘ/
106 category go /qʘ/
107 identity gg /ɠ/
108 belonging k! /k!/
109 possession g! /g!/
110 acquisition no /ŋʘ/
111 middle n! /n!/
112 inside k| /kǀ/
113 top dr /ɻ/
114 side g| /gǀ/
115 distance n| /ɴǀ/
116 crossing qw /qw/
117 situation xw /ɢw/
118 question kw /kw/
119 communicate gw /gw/
120 art cw /cw/
121 magic jw /ɟw/
122 love tw /tw/
123 sex dw /dw/
124 extreme pw /pw/
125 end bw /bw/
126 # y /y/
127 whitespace _ (silent)
126, #, means that the previous phoneme is being used for its numeric value rather than its meaning. It is transcribed /y/ and pronounced /y/. Numbers 1 to 10 for Janko:
BTW, here's a song translated into qh-xh-hw-h-f-dd-s’. Who can guess which song it is? All I can say it's that it's a pop/rock song from the twenty-first century.
Oh, and I should probably mention, qh-xh-hw-h-f-dd-s’ is very head-final. SOV, adjectives before nouns, postpositions, helping verbs after action verbs, etc.
I have officially made it so that that are Brown Dwarfs in the Lehola Galaxy! (No, not the star type, the alien type.)
I have added a new word onder SAPIENTS in my Master Species List. The count of sapient words in the big Leholangs goes up to 105, and the total number of sapient words goes up to 4,301.
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If you can resist the sandboxer urge to scrap a conpeople and their conlang as soon as you get bored with it, sure! Lehola planets and cultures are in for the long term.
Got any ideas for the name of your planet and its solar system? What tyashus (i.e. sapient species) are its sapient inhabitants going to be? Do you have an idea as to what a language will sound like?
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Squirrels chase koi . . . chase squirrels
My Kankonian-English dictionary: Now at 103,000 words!
Ten years ago today, Halloween of 2014, I was having a long sleep in the morning of a rainy day. While I was sleeping, I had a dream that I was aboard a spacecraft of some type and reading a book my mother had given me. It was a textbook intended to teach a language that some Greys allegedly spoke. From what I remember of this dream, the language was quite like Spanish in its phonology and Romanization. Verbs ended in -re. There were a lot of single words that expressed meanings that we would use multiple words to say in English. The language was called Querre. The people who spoke it were called the añak.
After I woke up, I decided to make this into a real language for a people of the Lehola Galaxy. Querre rhymed with Skerre, so to distance my conlang from Doug Ball's conlang, I decided to call the language Quispe (like the Quechua surname) and repurpose Querre as the name of the planet. I kept añak as the name of the speakers, but decided that with its bilabials, Quispe wouldn't work for Greys.
I made the añak a rather human-like, warm-blooded people who had shell-like layers on their head that grew as they grew -- from the same phylum as the aliens known as the "Blues", in other words. They had hair like mammals, and had freckles on their faces, with hair, eyes, and skin that came in many colors. The añak would belong to a class of this phylum called the nectarozoans, whose women had breasts that produced a nectar-like fluid called ñu. The ñu would serve the same function as milk in mammals. The añak would raise other nectarozoans for their ñu, which they would drink into adulthood, and make into many byproducts (just as milk can be made into butter, cheese, and yogurt). They would also eat fruit and nuts, and candy made therefrom.
The añak have six fingers on each hand, and as a result have a duodecimal number system:
Verbs have polysynthetic prefixes that indicate both the subject and the direct object!
Forms marked with an asterisk are considered the reflexive prefixes.
Spoiler:
I (intransitive): sa-
you (singular, intransitive): nu-
she, he, they (singular, intransitive): in-
it (intransitive): le-
we (inclusive, intransitive): ki-
we (exclusive, intransitive): u-
you (you and you; you, you, and she/he/they, intransitive): xa-
you (you and she/he/they, intransitive): xo-
they (animate or mixed, intransitive): ni-
they (inanimate, intransitive): bu-
I (with predicate): za-
you (singular, with predicate): de-
she, he, they (singular, with predicate): tai-
it (with predicate): lo-
we (inclusive, with predicate): on-
we (exclusive, with predicate): ña-
you (you and you; you, you, and she/he/they, with predicate): rru-
you (you and she/he/they, with predicate): pua-
they (animate or mixed, with predicate): to-
they (inanimate, with predicate): ñe-
I -> myself: som-*
you (singular) -> me: bhar-
she, he, they (singular) -> me: nin-
it -> me: go-
we (inclusive) -> me: uan-
we (exclusive) -> me: dri-
you (you and you; you, you, and she/he/they) -> me: tla-
you (you and she/he/they) -> me: dji-
they (animate or mixed) -> me: kai-
they (inanimate) -> me: phon-
I -> you (singular): bhen-
you (singular) -> yourself: dix-*
she, he, they (singular) -> you (singular): sal-
it -> you (singular): ro-
we (inclusive) -> you (singular): gem-
we (exclusive) -> you (singular): ial-
you (you and you; you, you, and she/he/they) -> you (singular): poix-
you (you and she/he/they) -> you (singular): saix-
they (animate or mixed) -> you (singular): mel-
they (inanimate) -> you (singular): phra-
I -> her/him/them (singular): mai-
you (singular) -> her/him/them (singular): trei-
she, he, they (singular) -> her/him/them (singular): tra-
she, he, they (singular) -> herself/himself/themself: rre-*
it -> her/him/them (singular): gua-
we (inclusive) -> her/him/them (singular): xli-
we (exclusive) -> her/him/them (singular): pe-
you (you and you; you, you, and she/he/they) -> her/him/them (singular): don-
you (you and she/he/they) -> her/him/them (singular): djan-
they (animate or mixed) -> her/him/them (singular): phua-
they (inanimate) -> her/him/them (singular): an-
I -> it: bro-
you (singular) -> it: glu-
she, he, they (singular) -> it: siu-
it -> it (different entities): ti-
it -> itself: kor-*
we (inclusive) -> it: sam-
we (exclusive) -> it: phel-
you (you and you; you, you, and she/he/they) -> it: ui-
you (you and she/he/they) -> it: mua-
they (animate or mixed) -> it: djon-
they (inanimate) -> kei: an-
I -> us (inclusive): hwa-
you (singular) -> us (inclusive): tue-
she, he, they (singular) -> us (inclusive): gre-
it -> us (inclusive): bia-
we (inclusive) -> ourselves: oin-*
we (exclusive) -> us (inclusive): kia-
you (you and you; you, you, and she/he/they) -> us (inclusive): txei-
you (you and she/he/they) -> us (inclusive): mul-
they (animate or mixed) -> us (inclusive): djul-
they (inanimate) -> us (inclusive): djam-
I -> us (exclusive): ker-
you (singular) -> us (exclusive): pru-
she, he, they (singular) -> us (exclusive): gia-
it -> us (exclusive): hwel-
we (inclusive) -> us (exclusive): djei-
we (exclusive) -> ourselves: duan-*
you (you and you; you, you, and she/he/they) -> us (exclusive): pro-
you (you and she/he/they) -> us (exclusive): pru-
they (animate or mixed) -> us (exclusive): ziul-
they (inanimate) -> us (exclusive): ziam-
I -> you (you and you; you, you, and her/him/them): iom-
you (singular) -> you (you and you; you, you, and her/him/them): bhes-
she, he, they (singular) -> you (you and you; you, you, and her/him/them): nis-
it -> you (you and you; you, you, and her/him/them): zuas-
we (inclusive) -> you (you and you; you, you, and her/him/them): oil-
we (exclusive) -> you (you and you; you, you, and her/him/them): ail-
you (you and you; you, you, and she/he/they) -> yourselves: mo-*
you (you and she/he/they) -> you (you and you; you, you, and her/him/them): rian-
they (animate or mixed) -> you (you and you; you, you, and her/him/them): rres-
they (inanimate) -> you (you and you; you, you, and her/him/them): blas-
I -> you (you and her/him/them): djum-
you (singular) -> you (you and her/him/them): el-
she, he, they (singular) -> you (you and her/him/them): lis-
it -> you (you and her/him/them): lex-
we (inclusive) -> you (you and her/him/them): lin-
we (exclusive) -> you (you and her/him/them): eim-
you (you and you; you, you, and she/he/they) -> you (you and her/him/them): bes-
you (you and she/he/they) -> yourselves: bhai-*
they (animate or mixed) -> you (you and her/him/them): rron-
they (inanimate) -> you (you and her/him/them): guam-
I -> them (animate or mixed): dai-
you (singular) -> them (animate or mixed): blei-
she, he, they (singular) -> them (animate or mixed): sua-
it -> them (animate or mixed): suo-
we (inclusive) -> them (animate or mixed): xun-
we (exclusive) -> them (animate or mixed): plen-
you (you and you; you, you, and she/he/they) -> them (animate or mixed): klus-
you (you and she/he/they) -> them (animate or mixed): djius-
they (animate or mixed) -> them (animate or mixed): hyei-
they (animate or mixed) -> themselves: hyal-*
they (inanimate) -> them (animate or mixed): nar-
I -> them (inanimate): phli-
you (singular) -> them (inanimate): dua-
she, he, they (singular) -> them (inanimate): men-
it -> them (inanimate): djuo-
we (inclusive) -> them (inanimate): klei-
we (exclusive) -> them (inanimate): ram-
you (you and you; you, you, and she/he/they) -> them (inanimate): tran-
you (you and she/he/they) -> them (inanimate): trin-
they (animate or mixed) -> them (inanimate): zel-
they (inanimate) -> them (inanimate, different entities): iur-
they (inanimate or mixed) -> themselves: hyum-*
Prefixes in use:
So si bhenlogek; na hwan bharlogek. 1s.NOM 2s.ACC 1s>2s-love-PRS 2s.NOM 1s.ACC 2s>1s-love-PRS
I love you; you love me.
Zakhatl kain íngretxan tragireik. Zakhatl that.ACC girl-ACC 3s>3s-crush_on-PRS.PROG
Zakhatl is crushing on that girl.
Uo uox grretxai ranglapan. 1p.EXC.NOM 1p.EXC.GEN cellphone-ACC.PL 1p.EXC>3p.INAN-use-PST
We used our cellphones.
Itx ulum innanistadán. 3s.ANIM.NOM always 3s.ANIM.NTRAN-lie-PST.HAB
He would always lie.
So buexilás phlirrestiak quar bue hwan phonixpulek. 1s.NOM buexil-ACC.PL 1s>3p.INAN-avoid-PRS.HAB because 3p.INAN.NOM 1s.ACC 3p.INAN>1s-gross_out-PRS
I avoid buexils because they gross me out.
(A buexil is a kind of eight-legged binga (arthrologue, or bug-equivalent, phylum) . . . buexils' class of bingas, the porubingas, can be thought of as arachnologues due to their eight legs.)
Quispe is also pro-drop, which means it is possible to drop a subject or direct object pronoun when the prefix on the verb makes it clear:
Buexilás phlirrestiak quar phonixpulek. buexil-ACC.PL 1s>3p.INAN-avoid-PRS.HAB because 3p.INAN>1s-gross_out-PRS
I avoid buexils because they gross me out.
The aesthetic I am going for is Spanish/Basque/Quechua. Even though the people of Querre now speak their lingua franca Quispe telepathically, the "telemes" are written phonemically, and proper names and words for plants and animals of the planet -- any word another language would borrow from Quispe -- are transliterated as these phonemes that underlie the telemes. The verbs of Quispe agree with both subject and object as in Quechua, and as in Spanish there is a reflexive voice (marked by the suffix -nem on the infinitive) that often works as a passive voice. Many inkhorn words borrow roots from Mazmiza, an ancient language once spoken on Querre.
In 2016, I put the song "Voyager Golden Record" by my musician friend John Hensle on replay on my computer while creating the Quispe alphabet (plus numerals and punctuation) as a mindfulness project for my DBT class. I was pleased with my script when I finished. Sadly, John (who was collaborating with me on my rock musical The Bittersweet Generation) would pass away in December later that year. He was only 23.
In 2021, I drew more than 600 species of organism for the black plant bioswath of the Lehola Galaxy, found on Querre and a number of other planets. This would include all the maptoplankes (chordologues, or vertebrate-analogues, with that growing layering on the skull) like the nectarozoans, as well as fish-like creatures, bingas (arthropod-analogues), malacologues (mollusc-analogues), black plants, black algae, bacteria, viruses, and more! Among my favorite species are the dreadlock plant, a type of grekos (fern-analogue in the black plant bioswath) that resembles a chevelure of dreadlocks, and a nectarozoan called the midia (a carnivore that resembles a giant sloth with a dog's head); the appearance and name of the midia came to me in a 2014 dream wherein I was at a Mien friend's house, playing in the cablehouse in their backyard, when a wild midia lay on the ground and tried to eat us!
The people of Querre are a noble people, with a system of ethics and jurisprudence based on consent, rather than on a concept of competence and compos mentis. As one of the most advanced planets in the Lehola Galaxy, they travel the galaxy and universe with their FTL travel and often live aboard ufopoleis (a ufopolis is like a whole city, often of a mixed assortment of sapient and non-sapient species, of people and creatures who permanently live aboard a starship).
Just to clarify, even though qu means /k/ before a front vowel in Spanish and Quechua, the QU in words like "Quispe" and "Querre" is a labialized k: /kw/.
Ten years later, Quispe has a lexicon of over 2,600 words, and I am working on its grammar document. Here's to another ten years -- or twenty!
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Squirrels chase koi . . . chase squirrels
My Kankonian-English dictionary: Now at 103,000 words!
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