qɑ̂ Changelog ============ Minor tweaks, of which there are a lot, are not included. 2019-8-20: Changed the prosody, redesigned the vocabulary from scratch, dropped the poetic metre and the in-universe proto-script, and added a non-canonical script. As a result the language was renamed qɑ̂ and the existing Occasional Writings became obsolete and were dropped. 2018-12-1: Made the pronoun dropping rules less ambiguous and introduced a series of standalone papers, Occasional Writings on qɑ́, to expand on aspects of the language in more detail. 2018-11-11: Redesigned the prosody and the poetic metre from scratch and dropped the whistled register. As a result the language was renamed qɑ́. 2017-11-24: Added a whistled register. 2016-10-29: Moved the setting to Eneolithic Zöün Ɣar Gate in an alternate history and changed the format of presentation into a traditional grammar. As a result the Hànzì orthography was dropped and the language was "renamed" qɑ, the IPA transcription of its name. 2016-7-18: Uploaded Yá, the oldest version of the language. It was a lostlang, a language set in our timeline but too insignificant to alter it in any meaningful way. It was set in the bronze age Héxī Corridor and was written using Hànzì. It was presented in the form of in-universe research papers. Ye ancient times: Antregabua (~2012) and Yiraciqa (2014-3-26) were my earlier attempts to mix minimalism with naturalism. They were basically prototypes of qɑ̂.