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diff --git a/src/index.md b/src/index.md index ecc1e41..01fc17f 100644 --- a/src/index.md +++ b/src/index.md @@ -1,13 +1,32 @@ -# Conlangs +# Hàäsdáïga -I am a hobbyist conlanger and this is my collection of conlangs. Unfortunately, -I have not digitize my previous work in a standard way. Either I write it on -phone note or write Word(tm) document (ew) and upload it to Google Drive (ew). -Git is more resilient, and now that I have a convenient way of syncing between -my devices without cloud, hopefully it will be the final version. +## In-world background -Currently, I am working on Hàäsdáïga, a synthetic language influenced by -[wǔxíng][wuxing] philosophy. I am also considering building a genderless, -isolated language after this one. +Hàäsdáïga is a dead language spoken by ancient people in Gaïdaäna. +In the day, there was only one language in the continent, shared by people from +five peoples: *Wood* farmers, *Fire* hunters, *Earth* monks, *Metal* smiths and +*Water* seafarers. They embraced the philosophy and that reflected in their +languages. They not only used the language to communicate, but also to define +a method with which they could control these five natural forces. -[wuxing]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wuxing_(Chinese_philosophy) +Later, as these peoples mixed up, their ability to harness these five natural +forces strengthened for some and weakened for the others. Most notably, the +*Metal* and *Water* people lost almost all of this power, and only a minority +could still use it. Science and trade thus became their main strength. On the +other hand, *Fire* and *Wood* people could control it so well, they no longer +needed the language to guide their power. *Earth* monks were the most pure +with this power, but chose to distance themselves from others' affairs. +Naturally, the language was divided into five different languages (and two +pidgins) and the old way of using natural force was forgotten. + +Incidentally, *Arrow*, the son of *Blade* and *Pearl*[^1], re-invented the way. +Born as a child of a Metal mage warrior and a magicless aristocrat in a +science-oriented society, he learned to use one heritage to support the other. +He tried to reconstruct the ancient language and defined a way to use it to combine +his magic ability. Independently, *Iceberg*[^1] also discovered it by reading +old text he was lucky to find + +We are interested in the linguistic features of this language as well as its magical +structure. In this book we discuss both of them. + +[^1]: These names are temporary, but they carry the meaning of their future names. |