diff --git a/settings/eusocial-interbeing/README.md b/settings/eusocial-interbeing/README.md index ceb2502..0b1f400 100644 --- a/settings/eusocial-interbeing/README.md +++ b/settings/eusocial-interbeing/README.md @@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ register, and history. - Weksa owns the language-project pipeline: ontology projection, grammar, morphology, phonology, diachrony, rendering, glossing, and critique. - A future language project owns one inhabitant language. Airawa imperial - register, pre-imperial Airawa registers, Sa'auei'a family-unit speech, ritual + register, pre-imperial Airawa registers, Sa'ueia family-unit speech, ritual breeding-ground registers, and ecological-partner contact systems should not collapse into one universal naming soup. @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ surfaces: - Airawa continent: mother-tree memory networks, archival dependency, disconnected networks, and the Airawa Empire's biological-memetic infrastructure. -- Sa'auei'a continent: advanced nomadic civilization, family-unit political +- Sa'ueia continent: advanced nomadic civilization, family-unit political movement, sacred breeding-ground commons, remembered routes, and reciprocal ecological relationships. diff --git a/settings/eusocial-interbeing/language-design.md b/settings/eusocial-interbeing/language-design.md index 942f7a9..cacb314 100644 --- a/settings/eusocial-interbeing/language-design.md +++ b/settings/eusocial-interbeing/language-design.md @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ rights, witnessed warrior promise, and honorable scar evidence. See ### Provisional Airawa Phonology Notes Airawa phonology is not finalized, but the current design pressure distinguishes -it from Sa'auei'a softness. Airawa names should feel sharper, more dorsal and +it from Sa'ueia softness. Airawa names should feel sharper, more dorsal and coronal, and more willing to close around hard edges. Provisional tendencies: @@ -58,9 +58,9 @@ Provisional tendencies: - sibilant and postalveolar fricatives should carry social texture: `s`, `z`, `sh` / `zh`; - `r` may be trilled in some Airawa registers; -- syllables can tolerate clipped or closed shapes where Sa'auei'a forms would +- syllables can tolerate clipped or closed shapes where Sa'ueia forms would flow longer and wetter; -- avoid making native Airawa names read like smooth Sa'auei'a route names unless +- avoid making native Airawa names read like smooth Sa'ueia route names unless the form is explicitly a loan, exonym, or cross-continental register. The current room consensus pushes this further for introductory speech: Airawa @@ -75,9 +75,9 @@ voiced postalveolar fricative /zh/ [ʒ]. The name is being considered for a Zyphos Face drawn from a non-imperial Airawa archival/fungal-road tradition: an archivist shaped by memory as kinship, not content. -## Sa'auei'a Pressures +## Sa'ueia Pressures -Sa'auei'a language work must account for: +Sa'ueia language work must account for: - advanced nomadic civilization without permanent urban dominance - squad-sized family units @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Sa'auei'a language work must account for: - reciprocity routes and seasonal corridors - camps, commons, and partner sites as distinct name targets -The Sa'auei'a continent should not read as empty wilderness. Its language should +The Sa'ueia continent should not read as empty wilderness. Its language should have ways to name civilization that moves, recurs, bargains, and is remembered by ecology. diff --git a/state/map.yaml b/state/map.yaml index 95009bf..7d62e94 100644 --- a/state/map.yaml +++ b/state/map.yaml @@ -221,10 +221,10 @@ open_questions: - What is the minimal Rust to Dust language-project slice that proves the engine without hard-coding the setting into it? - What minimal Eusocial Interbeing language-project slice can prove naming for - Airawa, Sa'auei'a, ecological partner, and imperial registers without + Airawa, Sa'ueia, ecological partner, and imperial registers without collapsing them into one universal language? - Which Zyphos language project should be first: Airawa, imperial Airawa, - Sa'auei'a, or a narrow naming-brief interlingua? + Sa'ueia, or a narrow naming-brief interlingua? - What is the minimal Airawa starter lexicon and permission model needed to translate the first chieftain/visitor/mother-tree scene honestly? - How should Airawa encode honorable scars: bodily evidence, honor claim, debt