Liwadi Culture: Time
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Table of Phonemes
| IPA | /ä/ | /b/ | /g/ | /d/ | /e/ | /ɛ/ | /z/ | /i/ | /ɪ/ | /j/ | /k/ | /l/ | /m/ | /n/ | /ŋ/ | /o/ | /p/ | /ɾ/ | /s/ | /t/ | /u/ | /w/ | /h/ | /ʔ/ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Latin | A a | B b | G g | D d | E e | ė | Z z | I i | ı | Y y | K k | L l | M m | N n | Ń ń | O o | P p | R r | S s | T t | U u | W w | H h | ʻ |
- This is a modified Cyrillic order.
Written history - Weńur Nuʻep
- The Litorians do not keep written accounts of their history.
Time
- The Liwadi live on the western side of a vast ocean. Most of them live along the shore and every morning they watch the sun rise over the ocean. As it sets in the west, it passes behind a great mountain range and darkness comes from the east.
- For this reason, time passes from the east to the west. The future is in the east and the past is in the west. The word for future, liwed, is built on the word for east, liwad. The word for past, siper, is built on the word for west, sipur.
Calendar - Nulen Wimod
- The Litorians do not have a complex system of time keeping. There are only four units of time.
- The day (nulen) begins at first light. There is a morning (rotep), a noon (burud nulen, high sun), and an evening (epir). The night is called kekid. The planet's rotation gives a 28-hour day.
- The month (degon) is measured from the first sighting of the waxing crescent of the moon (kurim).
- The four seasons are recognized: spring (orań), summer (yotez), autumn (nońil), and winter (yopuʻ).
- The year (nemim) begins when the trees begin to leaf. It is 384 Litorian days in length.
- The closest thing to a week is the four phases (nukas) of the moon.
- The Liwadis do not have any other words to describe the passing of time except yesterday (aranulen), the day before yesterday (araranulen), tomorrow (oyinulen) and the day after tomorrow (oyoyinulen).
- Other than these, only general terms are available, such as past days and coming days.
The Lunar Cycle – Kurim Subak
- The lunar cycle contains eight months (degon) of 48 days each. The first month begins the morning after the sighting of the first crescent of the waxing large moon after the leafing of the trees. The other months begin the morning of the successive crescent moons. These months are merely numbered: pabit degon, gepit degon, dirit degon, etc.
- The months are divided into halves. The waxing moon (warup kurim) extends from the morning of the first crescent to the morning of the full moon. The waning moon (waluń kurim) extends from the morning of the full moon to the morning of the first crescent.
