Respell Sa'auei'a as Sa'ueia (spelling only) #4

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- 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.
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- 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.

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### 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:
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- 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
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- 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.

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- 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