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The '''Divine language''' is used to generate the names of [[Angel]]s. It works just like any of the four major languages in the respect that it has its own translation of a set of English words, but unlike the other languages, it is generated individually for each world. Each world has only one divine language, meaning that all angels in all vaults in a given world will use the same language.
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[[File:Adam naming the animals. Etching. Wellcome V0034186.jpg|thumb|250px|right|Adam, with the use of divine language, names the animals.]]The '''Divine language''' is used to generate the names of [[angel]]s. It works just like any of the four major languages in the respect that it has its own translation of a set of English words, but unlike the other languages, it is generated individually for each world. Each world has only one divine language, meaning that all angels in all vaults in a given world will use the same language.
 
  
 
==Orthography==
 
==Orthography==
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Each divine language draws from pools of randomly-chosen consonants and vowels for its words, covering the entire ISO basic Latin alphabet. Unlike the other four predefined languages, divine languages never use letters with diacritics. Furthermore, the letters "h" and "y" can be used as both consonants and vowels, and the letters "ng" can also be used together as a single consonant sound.
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Each divine language appears to draw on a pool of randomly chosen consonant letters of the for its words (up to 12 distinct consonants have been observed in one divine language), and they utilize all 6 vowel letters (including Y). Therefore, divine languages in general may draw on the entire ISO basic Latin alphabet:
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| b || p || g || k || c || z || s || d || t || m || n || ng
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|bgcolor="#EFEFEF" align="center" colspan="26" | '''Majuscule forms''' (also called '''uppercase''' or '''capital letters''')
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|bgcolor="#EFEFEF" align="center" colspan="26" | '''Minuscule forms''' (also called '''lowercase''' or '''small letters''')
 
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Each divine language uses 4 sets of letters:
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Unlike the other four predefined languages, no divine language has ever been observed to use letters with diacritics. Finally, the letter H has only been observed in the digraphs ''IH'' and ''UH'', and (likely by random chance) the only letter yet to be observed in a divine language is S.
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* A short list of 5 randomly-selected consonants, 80% of which are restricted to the "Common" set
 
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* A long list of 15 randomly-selected consonants, all drawn from the full set
 
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* A short list of 5 randomly-selected vowels, 80% of which are restricted to the "Monophthongs" set
 
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* A long list of 15 randomly-selected vowels, all drawn from the full set
 
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Note that the contents of these lists are not guaranteed to be unique - it is possible for the same consonant or vowel to appear multiple times within the same list, restricting any given language to fewer than 20 distinct consonants and vowels.
 
  
 
==Phonetics and Phonotactics==
 
==Phonetics and Phonotactics==
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Each word in divine languages is constructed from two randomly-generated components, the first being of the form "CV" or "V", and the second being of the form "C", "CV", or "CVC" (where "C" is a consonant and "V" is a vowel). Thus, all words are of the form "VC", "CVC", "VCV", "CVCV", "VCVC", or "CVCVC".
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Each word in divine languages is of the form '''C<sub>1</sub>V<sub>1</sub>(C<sub>2</sub>V<sub>2</sub>)C<sub>3</sub>'''. (The parentheses mean that C<sub>2</sub>V<sub>2</sub> is optional.)
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===Consonants: C and F===
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The choices for C<sub>1,2</sub> vs. C<sub>3</sub> appear to draw from different sub-pools of consonants, or at least have different probabilities for letter occurrence. Any of C<sub>1</sub>, C<sub>2</sub>, C<sub>3</sub> can also be zero consonants, but a word must have at least one non-zero consonant.
  
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For each consonant and vowel chosen, 80% are drawn from the "short" lists above, with the remaining 20% drawn from the "long" lists.
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===Vowels: V===
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All divine languages also appear to utilize the same vowel system, but with different frequencies for various diphthongs. The observed vowels are:
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* monophthongs: ''a, e, o, u, ih, uh''
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* diphthongs: ''au, eo, eu, ey, ie, io, oa, oi, ou, oy, ua, ui''
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Worth noting is that the letter ''i'' has never been seen to occur outside of digraphs. In addition, it is possible that all diphthongs between A, E, I, O, U, and Y are allowed, and that they have just not yet been observed.
  
 
==Trivia==
 
==Trivia==
 
* The randomly generated divine words are not necessarily unique; the same letter sequence may correspond to two completely different English words.
 
* The randomly generated divine words are not necessarily unique; the same letter sequence may correspond to two completely different English words.
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* The shortest possible divine words have two letters (e.g. "ac"), while the longest words are typically 5-7 letters (e.g. "ciotayr") and could theoretically approach 10 (if all consonants were chosen to be "ng").
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* The shortest possible divine words have two letters, like ''ac'', while the longest possible words are 7 letters, like ''cihtihr''.
 
* In the world raws, the divine language is referred to as GEN_DIVINE. By changing an entity's TRANSLATION token in ''raw/objects/entity_default.txt'' to GEN_DIVINE, it's possible to make newly-generated creatures of that type use the same names as angels.
 
* In the world raws, the divine language is referred to as GEN_DIVINE. By changing an entity's TRANSLATION token in ''raw/objects/entity_default.txt'' to GEN_DIVINE, it's possible to make newly-generated creatures of that type use the same names as angels.
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[[ru:Divine language]]
 

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