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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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==Orthography== | ==Orthography== | ||
| − | Each divine language draws from pools of randomly-chosen consonants and vowels for its words | + | Each divine language draws from pools of randomly-chosen consonants and vowels for its words: |
| + | Consonants: | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
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!colspan=12| Common | !colspan=12| Common | ||
!colspan=10| Uncommon | !colspan=10| Uncommon | ||
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| v || f || w || h || j || l || r || q || x || y | | v || f || w || h || j || l || r || q || x || y | ||
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| + | Vowels: | ||
{| class="wikitable" | {| class="wikitable" | ||
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!colspan=5| Monophthongs | !colspan=5| Monophthongs | ||
!colspan=30| Diphthongs | !colspan=30| Diphthongs | ||
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| − | + | A given divine language uses 4 sets of letters: | |
| − | * A short list of 5 randomly-selected | + | * A short list of 5 randomly-selected Consonants, 80% of which are restricted to the "Common" set |
| − | * A long list of 15 randomly-selected | + | * A long list of 15 randomly-selected Consonants, all drawn from the full set |
| − | * A short list of 5 randomly-selected | + | * A short list of 5 randomly-selected Vowels, 80% of which are restricted to the "Monophthongs" set |
| − | * A long list of 15 randomly-selected | + | * A long list of 15 randomly-selected Vowels, all drawn from the full set |
| − | Note that | + | Note that 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. |
| + | Unlike the other four predefined languages, divine languages never use letters with diacritics. Finally, the letters "h" and "y" can be used as both consonants and vowels. | ||
==Phonetics and Phonotactics== | ==Phonetics and Phonotactics== | ||
| − | 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) | + | 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). |
For each consonant and vowel chosen, 80% are drawn from the "short" lists above, with the remaining 20% drawn from the "long" lists. | For each consonant and vowel chosen, 80% are drawn from the "short" lists above, with the remaining 20% drawn from the "long" lists. | ||