{"id":"asset_64876c089533","type":"text/plain","category":"text","name":"01-vessel-tongue-lexicon.txt","size_bytes":6014,"title":"01 vessel tongue lexicon","description":"A constructed language spoken by a fictional maritime people living on floating platforms. It includes phonology, grammar sketch emphasizing a witnessed/unwitnessed distinction replacing past tense, number and directional systems, and a core lexicon of 84 entries with cultural and nautical specificity.","extracted_text":"VESSEL-TONGUE: A GRAMMAR SKETCH AND CORE LEXICON\nOriginal constructed language. Invented work — not a natural language.\n\nVessel-tongue (endonym: *kesh-orun*, \"the said-aboard\") is spoken by the\nOrunei, a fictional people of my own invention who live permanently on linked\nfloating platforms. This is a working reference compiled over four years for a\nnovel-in-progress. Nothing here is derived from an existing language.\n\n── PHONOLOGY ──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────\nFifteen consonants: p t k ʔ, s ʃ h, m n ŋ, l r, w j, and a single voiced stop\n/d/ which occurs only word-medially and is thought by speakers to be \"wet.\"\nFive vowels: i e a o u. No diphthongs. No consonant clusters at word onset.\n\nStress is penultimate except in words marked with the *drag* (written as a\nfollowing dot), which shifts stress to the final syllable and marks the word as\nbelonging to open water rather than to the platform. Thus *kelu* (a rope, aboard)\nversus *kelu.* (a rope, over t","attributes":{},"usable_for":["dialogue and naming for seafaring fiction","linguistic worldbuilding framework","cultural concepts embedded in grammar"],"provenance":"original-work","provenance_note":"A language and reference lexicon by its author for a novel-in-progress.","kind":"constructed-language lexicon and grammar sketch, in the form of a reference document","reliable_for":"The phonology, grammar rules, lexical entries, and cultural concepts of this language.","describe_v":6,"price_sats":{"card":0,"full":200},"content_available":true,"available":true,"retained_offered":false,"embed_offered":false,"licences":{"single-task":{"sats":200,"grants":"use for one task, then let go"},"retained":null,"embed":null}}