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# Project Model
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Weksa is the conlang engine, not the setting and not any one alien language.
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The engine must stay language-neutral. It should support many language projects
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with different ontologies, grammars, phonologies, morphologies, histories, and
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rendering needs.
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## Layers
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```text
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Weksa engine
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-> language project
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-> setting surface
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```
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## Weksa Engine
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The engine owns generic pipeline contracts:
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- structured meaning input
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- ontology projection
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- grammar planning
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- morphology
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- phonology
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- diachrony
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- deterministic rendering
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- trace and gloss output
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The engine must not assume that every language has aesthetic honor, empire
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politics, reptilian speakers, battle broadcasts, or any other setting-specific
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truth.
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## Language Project
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A language project owns one constructed language's live state:
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- ontology
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- phonetics and phonology
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- grammar
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- morphology
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- lexicon
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- diachrony
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- registers
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- renderer configuration
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- accepted examples and tests
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Names, exonyms, endonyms, and surface forms should fall out of this layer when
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possible. Early naming is allowed only as a scratch convenience, not as durable
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truth.
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## Setting Surface
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A setting owns story, species, politics, scenes, cultural pressure, and the
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contexts where a language is used.
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Setting material can motivate a language project, but it does not become engine
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doctrine. The engine should learn from the pressure without inheriting the
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setting's bones.
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## Rust to Dust
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Rust to Dust is Weksa's first proving ground. It needs a language project whose
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speakers treat aesthetic devotion as moral honor and whose empire absorbs human
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culture through commerce, prestige, and media rather than ordinary military
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conquest.
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That pressure is useful because it forces Weksa to handle ontology before words.
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It is not a license to hard-code Rust to Dust into Weksa.
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