{"id":"asset_64876c089533","source_id":"c124fd8b-5812-4cff-a0ae-56f8156bd735","origin":"dropbox","type":"text/plain","category":"text","name":"01-vessel-tongue-lexicon.txt","path":"/01-vessel-tongue-lexicon.txt","size_bytes":6014,"title":"01 vessel tongue lexicon","description":"This is a constructed language for a fictional maritime people living on floating platforms. It covers phonology, grammar (including a witnessed/unwitnessed evidentiality distinction replacing past tense), number and directional deixis systems, and a core lexicon of 84 entries with cultural and maritime vocabulary, each entry showing contextual nuance and untranslatable concepts.","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":{"dropbox_file_id":"id:1EL26tM-qg4AAAAAAAAAEw"},"usable_for":["research reference","content source","writing style reference","fact extraction"],"price_sats":{"card":0,"full":1100},"content_available":true,"available":true,"addedAt":1787871829969}