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I’ve been considering a tattoo of the word anslem in bajoran but I’ve been having a hard time finding any ways to go about this until I found your page! I didn’t see it in the dictionary tab on the google doc (language studies like this are so completely over my head I am unbelievably impressed at all the work you’ve done here!) and am curious if it fits in your narrative that it’s the bajoran word for father?
Interested in your thoughts on the subject if it’s not too invasive!
(NB: scroll allll the way to the bottom for the short answer lmao)
holy shit hi!! so far i only have a general word for caretaker/parent, since i made a good chunk of the current dictionary before i started doing spec bio stuff for Bajorans (in which i did a total upheaval of body plans, internal and external organs, etc etc etc) but i did include a 2-sex system, albeit one that isn't quite as divided when it comes to biological parental roles, i.e. there's no milk-giving parent. here's what i do have tho, to start with (because kinship is one of my FAVORITE things to work with in regards to conlangs).
rinjāstanā /ɾɪŋ.d͡za:.çtʰa.na:/ is the general word for parent/caretaker.
amā /a.ma:/ and atā /a.ta:/ are terms for the biological sexes involved in procreation, but the similarity to human languages' terms for mother and father as social and familial roles is only surface level. this is because i am just soooo staunchly against star trek's whole "1 alien species = 1 homogeneous culture" thing. i do try to stick to source material in... alright in some very fleeting and sparse ways, but it's there, i promise!
for Bajorans, here's what i've devised: the planet Bajor is currently in a Pangea-type stage, where the majority of the planet's landmass is one massive continent, with some scatterings of island chains near it due to volcanic activity. also, Bajorans are semi-aquatic (and also arboreal) people that looooove heat and humidity, so have no problems with spreading out around this continent via the coasts and river valleys, leaving the massive interior desert largely unpopulated. Before the Cardassian Occupation, one specific Bajoran culture had spread itself pretty much planet-wide: an ethnic group coming from the northwest of the mainland continent would be the progenitors of what we know the be "bajoran culture". indicated on this map here in the darker blue, this is where we find the thin, sharp nose ridges, more modest clothing, meditative prayer, belief in the prophets, and so on and so forth.
other groups were slowly absorbed into this, similar to how the Romans took in the gods of places they conquered, and remapped them onto their own values. this prophet-culture would go on to assume these other cultures' gods and stuff were just different interpretations of the prophets and their wonders.for instance, the orange group in the southeast had a series of moon gods with anthro(bajo??)pomorphic depictions, the pale green in the central east had a religion with the same roots as the prophet-culture, and the lighter blue to the north had star gods that they believed they were descended from.
all this to say that!!! the concept of father as a familial term would be complicated because
1. i havent done much with kinship yet and
2. there would be multiple words due to multiple cultures (and the "bajoran" language wouldnt be the only language from the planet, but thats for another time)
NEVETHERLESS, NOW IS THE PERFECT TIME TO MAKE A KINSHIP SYSTEM!! HOORAY!
going with my previous spec bio stuff, bajorans naturally lay their eggs in shallow pools, dug and protected both in a partnership between the parents, and as a group effort (think nesting grounds). because of this, i think that something similar to Hawaiian kinship systems would be really common; you're born and grow up surrounded by a whole bunch of everybody who also has a stake in raising you. that's where i'm gonna start.
this starts us off with wanting terms for mother, father, and sibling. Dakhur (Dakō), where Kira is from, is a good spot to make some of that prophet-culture kinship. the word "anslem" doesn't fit in with my phonology, but we can def start from it! the main problem is that -nsl- cluster, but also regular bajoran nouns end with vowels. we can first take that an- and reduce it to a long ā. i've got the option of replacing that -sl- cluster with , and quite honestly i like the sound of those first two a lot, so here's what we'll do:
ārhe /a:ɾ.hɛ/ translates to "father", but is used for male family members born the same year or younger than your sire, in the generations above you.
āldeme /a:ɫðɛ.mɛ/ translates to "father", but for male family members older than your sire.
with your personal little family unit father, either term is acceptable, but the former is more everyday, while the latter is more formal/respectful. some more rigid branches of this culture would likely only use āldeme for their father, while others would use it only in really super specific environments.
here's the written form of both, along with some calligraphy!
i absoluuuuutely said way too much here, but thank you for asking!
Not everyone does enough physical activity or lives in a warm enough climate to need to shower every day. If you think its disgusting to not shower every day I do not trust you
EXACTLY- Showering everyday can actually be REALLY bad for your skin and/or your hair too!
Also this is just…Abliest. Like there’s a billion different reasons why someone CANT shower everyday
like me personally- I have numerous mental disorders that makes basic tasks VERY taxing and difficult. But I also have some strange medical condition (of which doctors refuse to do anything about or to diagnose) that makes all of that heat and humidity genuinely a hazard for me
been meaning to do this FOREVER but heres some "basic" info behind yotavuș genetics and other general stuff. when making ocs i... Do somewhat adhere to genetics + ethnicity + other stuff. obv its not as straight forward as this; certain alleles are wayyyy more dominant in comparison to others, and a lot more than just base coat affect eye color and white splotching patterns (and there are so so so many things regarding stripes that i just couldn't get into on this im sorry) but this gives you. the Stuff.
heres a quick link to a much higher quality version of both images RIGHT HERE!!
under the cut is a text overview of the big images.
IMAGE ONE
Base fur color: always subsumed by white spotting. influences eye color, the saturation of the ruff/matti, and somewhat affects the stripe colors (not every base coat color can take on every stripe color). No yotavuș is without stripes.
Tumbleweed
ranges from a light brown to a warm tan, with a very red matti. found around the equator. All types usually have pink or black eyes.
TT- strong tumbleweed
Tt - tumbleweed
Yellow(Amber)
yellowish-gold to a pale yellow, saturated matti. Found in northern Katteșuvi, and across most of Vǒtiyǎcke. All types usually have pink or green eyes.
Tc - tumbleweed-light amber; a ticked color
tC - light amber
Fawn
A wide range of tan and beige colors. Found in northern Șotuŧahtěnu, as well as western Ranihikk. With the exception of normal fawn, these tend to have paler matti. All types usually have green, yellow, or black eyes.
tt - fawn
Ll - silver-ticked fawn, sometimes just called "ticked fawn"
TC - white-ticked fawn
TL - silver-ticked tumbleweed, also called "false fawn"
Cream
Self explanatory creamy colors. Not quite white. Tumbleweed-silver has a saturated matti, and usually has pink or yellow eyes. Found within the polar biomes of most continents. The other two types can be found further south, and usually have pink or green eyes.
Tl - tumbleweed-silver
cc - cream
tc - pale fawn
White
Found in the south of Katteșuvi and Șotuŧahtěnu. Matti saturation varies due to diet and environment.
CC - off-white; saturated matti, usually pink or yellow eyes
Cc - pale cream; medium matti, usually pink, green, or yellow eyes
tl - true silver; very pale matti, usually green or yellow eyes
Black*
Found in the far north of Șotuŧahtěnu, as well as northwestern Ranihikk. Usually green, yellow, or black eyes. Pale matti.
LL - dark gray
Gray
Found nearly everywhere, but more concentrated when you get further from the equator. Usually have green, yellow, or black eyes, with the exception of warm gray, which only has the latter two.
Cl - warm gray; medium matti
tL - ticked silver; pale matti
cL - cool gray; pale matti
ll - lilac; light-medium matti
CL - mottled gray; pale matti, unusual patches of discoloration
*Melanism, produced by the the successful birth of the cl combination (which requires other conditions to even be viable) is also considered a form of black fur. This will always have black eyes, and very deeply saturated matti.
Leucism is a condition that can affect yotavuș as well.
Base coats can also have variations such as orca (top part of the body darkens in the womb) and point (the extremities darken). Most individuals have a solid base coat (CC, Ccˢ, Ccᵇ). Unlike Earth animals, this isn't dependent on external temperatures.
Stripe Colors: There are four main stripe colors, which can be regular (DD, Dd) or dilute (dd). An additional white-spotting mutation can also produce "double-dilute" colors when white spots overlap certain diluted stripe colors. Places where a white patch overlaps with a Chocolate stripe become its dilute form, and white a patch overlaps with a diluted chocolate stripe becomes the special variant. Individuals may appear to have a full body of these stripes only if they have an extreme amount of white spotting.
Black
BB. Found on all: Cream, White, Black, and Gray. Also found on white-ticked fawn, false fawn, and ticked fawn.
Dilutes to: Dilute Chocolate
Red-Black
Bb, Bb¹. Found on all: Tumbleweed, Cream, and White. Also found on fawn, white-ticked fawn, false fawn.
Dilutes to: Cherry Chocolate
Chocolate
bb, b¹. Found on all Yellow and Tumbleweed. Also found on cream, pale fawn, fawn, white-ticked fawn, false fawn, off-white, pale cream, and lilac.
Dilutes to: Light Brown
White-Mutates to: Taupe
Cinnamon
b¹b¹. Found on all Yellow, Cream, and Fawn. Also found on tumbleweed, off-white, pale cream. A-variants of dilution are paler and more vibrant, and only found on off-white, cream, pale cream, and light amber.
Dilutes to: Red-A, Red-B
White-Mutates to: Gold-A, Gold-B
White-spotting: Normal white spots (WˢWˢ, Wˢw, Wᴰw¹) will occur at the palms, the soles, the back of the ears, the base of the tail(underside only), and the tip of the tail. Eyebrows are also usually white.
Wᴰ is a trait that causes white-dominance. It usually comes with mild vision issues. w¹ is a spot-deletion allele.
ww: +0-30% white spotting from the regular places
Wᴰw: +30-50%
WˢWᴰ: +50-100%
Melanin abundance can change up how white the spotting is, across the whole body. This also darkens the matti.
ww¹: tan spots
Wˢw¹: ticked tan spots
w¹w¹: no spots at all. there is genes for the patterning of the spots, but they dont Show Up.
True albinism is caused by the WᴰWᴰ mutation, which causes eyes to be a very very very pale pink.
For most, white spotting outside of standard placements will appear to be beneath the stripes (AA, Aa, Aa¹). Both stripe and white patterning can be passed down from parent to child. The recessive melanin inhibitor lightens spot where white overlaps with stripes (aa, aa¹, this is the thing that causes patches of Taupe and Gold-A/B). This can also make an individual appear mottled or spotty when they aren't genetically. The full strength of the melanin inhibitor (a¹a¹) fully overlaps any stripes, similar to the standard spotting at the back of the ears.
Stripe Patterns: The alleles associated with this are the solid blockers (S s) and the mottled blockers (M m). Sharp is more common in hot regions, Round in cold regions. Solid stripes (ssMM, ssMm, ssmm). Spotty stripes (SSMM, SsMM, SSMm, SsMm). Mottled stripes (SSmm, Ssmm), which have layers of deeper and paler stripe colors.
Symmetrical stripes are obviously not always perfect, but Semi-Symmetrical stripes will have noticeable changes between left and right sides. Asymmetrical tends to favor one side of the body over the other.
Hair
A hair is more a bundle of fibers, which spread apart into a fan shape at the end. Most common are the short types, which can be straight (RR, Rr) or wavy (R¹). Long fur can also be straight (rr) or wavy (rr¹). Curly (r¹r¹) fur is very rare, and is always short.
Learn more about the matti here! The video is incredibly old but the information is still relevant. The neck ruff, while connected in terms of composition to the matti, is largely for show in modern yotavuș, and has use only in emoting.
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Common Stripe Features (short list)
Facial splotching: undefined patches that don't adhere to a sharp or round type of narrow stripe.
Ear "blacking": this is pretty much standard; back of the ears have a higher concentration of striping. can also be dark all the way through.
Facial stripes: Crossing the nose bridge, the font of the face, behind the eye, or forehead.
Under-eye curl: a swoop under the eye, usually extending from the matti, or a neck stripe.
Chin stripes: usually mimic the loops and curls found on tail stripes.
Under-ear curl: descend from the ear striping, curling under the back of the ear.
Tail loops and arches: circles and arcs on the spine leading down the tail.
Underarm loops: found from the armpits and front of the chest. often coincides with arcs on the underside of the arms.
Ankle banding: loops around the wrists and/or ankles.
Sandal striping: ankle banding that dips down between two or more toes.
Tail rings: loops that go around the entire tail, similar to ankle banding.
Common White-Spotting Features (short list)
Eye patch: encircling the eye.
Nose bridge: front of the face, nostrils.
Ear spot: standard, spotting on the back of the ears. Can be solid or spotted, similar to body stripes.
Throat: front of the neck, sometimes the chin and lower jaw as well.
Filament tips: the very ends of the strands that raise and lower the ruff.
Palms and soles: self-explanatory lol. this is standard.
Extended along limb: an extension of palms and soles, going up the back of the limb and usually spotting at a joint.
Groin: white, gets furrier with age.
Tail tip: also self-explanatory.
White tail: spotting that going down the tail to the base, to varying degrees.
Pants: not mentioned in the image! sad! but white pants made of dense spotting, similar to white tail.
Eye Colors
Pink: the most common, and the most varied. can be a warm, reddish-pink, all the way to a pale- almost icy- desaturated pinky-purple.
Green: a rarer color, found in cool or mountainous biomes. i love finding typos in the images like actively.
Black/Dark: the second most common, if only because it is technically a variant of all other colors, with more melanin. Still, usually happens to yellow or green eyes over pink.
Yellow: a very rare color, found in small pockets worldwide. can be considered odd or unnerving to look at.
GROWTH!
im just gonna retype out the entirety of the text wall i have for this lol get ready.
Infancy
From birth to ~2 years of age(TŦȘ), a young yotavuș is completely reliant on the adults in their life. They had a very strong grasping instinct that lets them lay along a parent's spine and cling to their mane. A young child's fur has a lighter and fluffier texture than an adult's, and at birth this fur will seem disproportionately long. Additionally, the cartilage in the ears is much softer, letting them fold close to the skull. The bones in the tail are also not completely fused, which allows it more flexibility, but also interferes with gait and balancing.
Early/Middle Childhood
While a yotavuș has regular sheds with the regular changing between wet and dry seasons, the coat will continue to grow in as the infant coat until the child is around eight or nine years (TŦȘ) of age. The tail remains flexible, especially at the end. They will have grown somewhat into the length of their infant coat, but are still visibly fluffier than an older child. Proportionally, they are more similar to an adult than an older child would be, with the exception of slightly small ears with relation to the head.
Adolescence
Pre- and early teens are very distinctive, primarily because of the differing growth rates of various parts of the body. The ears will begin to grow to their adult length, still retaining some softness that gives them a bit of floppiness when moving quickly. The arms also grow out quicker than the legs, to the point that some young teens adopt a semi-quadrupedal gait with turning quick corners or just chillings. The facial whiskers above the eyebrows and out of the ears come into their full length as well.
Adulthood
In comparison, an adult yotavuș will be larger, growing into those big ears and arms. The tail stiffens to its final state, and the fur at the tip of the tail and underside of its base becomes denser and longer. The mane grows in as well, which is always slightly longer and stiffer hair than the rest of the body across every ethnic group.
OTHER FACTS
Yotavuș have a symmetrical, four-fingered hand. Fur at the palms and soles is shorter and lighter than body fur, and they have no claws or nails.
Yotavuș had a vestigial rattle. In very few individuals this is still capable of making noise.
Like humans, yotavuș are omnivores. They have a higher preference for meat than we do, and relied more on their natural venom(a mild paralytic) over handheld tools when hunting. Basically a group of adults would hide around and then do a quick chase + pounce on a larger creature to bite it, eventually subduing it to the point that it can't fight back against a killing bite. This venom is produced from birth, so toddlers and pre-schoolers are often rocking some dope tooth caps to prevent incidents during playfighting.
Yotavuș don't produce milk. Infants are fed pre-chewed meats and vegetables, which are mixed with the parents venom (an active choice, not an automatic side-effect of chewing). This is both to further break down the food, and to give the children a gradual immunity to their parents venom (good for emergencies where u might have to snatch up a kid with your teeth to put them on a shelf out of danger; yotavuș arms don't have the same degree of rotation as humans, so placing things above the head is difficult).
A painting of a fantasy world. Red grass and red trees dot the landscape. the camera is looking towards a cliff's edge where two people stand framed by two trees. One of the people is a fluffy friend with pointy ears, while the other person is a stout dwarf called a Jona. the Jona is holding a sword, and blue glowing horns, while the fluffy friend has a pouch on it's hip, and is holding a wand as it lays in the grass. In the distance is a castle with waterfalls to it's sides, and the sky is filled with grey clouds with one giant moon in front of them.
I have a lot I want to say about this world but ughhh it's so much.
Firn is a tiny lady who's just under an inch tall. She's been living, and slowly falling in love with a man named Joy, a regular-sized person. As an evolution of this love, an idea got been stuck in Firn's mind.
She was watching Joy write, watching the pencil move along the surface of the paper... Firn saw his hands, and desperately wanted attention from them... Then the thought of being under his pencil came crashing in, and Firn was suddenly blushing. The idea of laying on a piece of paper, and seeing his large hand and pencil move around her body, was strange. But it stuck in her head as a fantasy for several days straight until she just couldn't handle it anymore.
Sitting on Joy's desk, contemplating for far too long about what Joy might think about her asking this, she finally decided to do it. She came up next to the journal and said "Hey, I have a strange ask..."
Joy had already noticed Firn staring for a good minute before she came over, so was he expecting her. "yes? what is it?" He asked.
Firn started fidgeting with her hands, and looking to the side she said "I know I'm not normally like this but... well, I don't know how to describe it but can I lay on the paper? while you're writing?"
Joy looked confused and said "What? ...sure?" Firn had already gotten on top of his journal, causing him to raise his hand out of the way.
Firn reached for his hand, and grabbed his pinky before he could lift it away. "Well like, write around me!" She said.
Joy gave an astonished look and scoffed. He still forgets to expect Firn's confidence. "Um, I was sorta writing about something else but.. I guess it can wait?" he said.
Firn splayed herself out on the paper, and Joy awkwardly moved his hand around trying to figure out what to do. "so, write around you? about what?"
Firn giggled "It doesn't matter... I think I just want to see what it's like."
Looking down at Firn, Joy couldn't help but smirk at how cute she was, just laying there. Firn looking up at his hand, holding a pencil who's tip is almost pointed at her, and it sent a strange feeling into her gut.
Joy took a deep breath in, and made a humph that blew across the page. He brought his pencil down near Firn, and started writing. From Firn's perspective, she saw his hand land to her left side. As he started writing, the pencil moved across the page, pressing and lifting and pressing, and scratching. his eyes weren't looking at her, but above her. His hand was scrunching up and out as it moved, and when Joy got to the end of that line, he raised the pencil again, and moved it back to the other side of Firn. This is what she was expecting to pay attention to, but she actually found it really hard to focus on anything but the scratching and tapping. Instead of the view and power she wanted to see, the sound of the pencil on paper flooded her mind, and it sent vibrations that made her shiver, and twitch, but not in pain. It felt awful but incredible at the same time.
Joy smirked seeing Firn squirm like this. "You're so cute.. It's like ASMR, is it?" He asked, continuing to write.
Firn let out an uneasy breath. "A-SMR...?" Firn said.
Joy stopped and responded. "Oh! it's Audio.. something something. It's like a noise that makes you feel good."
Firn was finally catching a bit of breath. "that felt really weird..."
Joy chuckled. "Oh I'm sorry, want me to sto-"
"No." Firn said, looking up intensely.
Joy clicked his cheek a few times at Firn's commanding nature, and started once again just above Firn. Firn heard the pencil now, scratching to the right and then scratching to the left, She had to rock her head as it came close. Joy finished the second line, and pulled the pencil back. Firn took a breath and saw the tip of it go across her vision, "wow.." she mumbled. Joy began again to Firn's right, and she closed her eyes. The scratching got closer and closer, until it was near her head, and she peaked to see the pencil. It extended to the sky like a huge strut. The wood and graphite were both in full detail, and at the same time blurred by the sensations hitting her tiny ears.
Joy stopped right when he got to her head. "hmm..." While she had a breather, she looked up and saw the pencil being held above her. It brought a strange feeling to the spot on her forehead between her eyes("Glabella"), staring at the black tip which was almost pointed directly at her forehead. The tip of it was smoothed out completely by hours of writing. Joy contemplated booping her with it, but he decided it'd probably be a little rough for a tiny. Joy brought the pencil down to the right of her head, and dragged it along, drawing a half-circle around to the other side. She could do nothing but wince at it, and her jaw opened itself involuntarily.
"Feel nice?" Joy asked with the biggest smile.
Firn looked up at Joy once again with a look of euphoria. "... yah..."
"You're so cute." Joy said. He began writing again. The noise started loud before dropping off, and then the pencil went back over Firn, and started writing at her chest level. The writing got closer before Joy stopped, and tapped the page a bit. Firn's arms were splayed above her, and Joy decided to trace a line so close it touched her sides. Then the other side too, both times it almost felt like it was under her skin. He continued writing after that, and this strange play continued for what felt like a good long minute, leaving Firn feeling extremely relaxed. It was like a massage. A massage specifically designed to scratch all of those itches you never even knew existed...
...
Firn was nudged awake by Joy, and she barely wanted to get up. Joy got close and whispered "Hey, I need to keep writing in my journal.. you might get crushed if I turned the page!"
Firn reluctantly sat up and looked up at Joy with a face he's never seen her make. Her eyes half closed, and with a drunken smile, mouth ajar. Joy chuckled used two fingers to pick her up, and put her on his other palm. "I've never had that strong of a reaction to ASMR... is it because you're so small?" Firn didn't respond, but just laid there in the warmth of his hand. Joy sighed and said "...well? wanna see what I wrote?"
Firn's interest was peaked, so she slowly moved to the start of his fingers, peering between them.
Firn is so adorable, I don't know why she's asking for this.
ASMR..? yes, She wants ASMR. She's tingling so much from it.
Looking at her li/ \ little legs tremble like she can't stand it..
She is just so.... | | adorable. Her red eyes, and little clothes.
The amount of / \ trust as well. I kind of wish I centered
her better, but I can't change where she laid down now.
Especially not when she's just so relaxed for once.
Firn was too tired to bite Joy's finger over those words.
