Swamp Continent
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Geography



The Swamp Continent is the portion of the ??? that lies west of the Zhjumna Mountains and southwest of Tsalaysia. It contains ore deposits that have made it an invaluable trading partner of both the Tsi Empire and points east on the ???, and enabled it to resist the occasional Tsi and/or Rau attempts at vassalization; the most recent such attempt provoked the recent creation of the Zzxzzyx Empire in response, and this empire now controls the northern half of the Swamp Continent. (Which is not a terribly large place.)

Other major exports are the cash crops of ~tobacco and ~yaupon, grown in the northern lowlands.

Cultures and states



Vengic

Linguistic typology



- Strong stress accent tending toward sesquisyllabization (What), monosyllabization (Ziwan), and increasing analyticity and then agglutinativity (Hlu, Narng?).
- Tone can occur, but it isn't as common as in Zhjumna or Tsalaysia; presumably it began in Zotic or Narngic and spread outwards. When tonal systems do occur, they tend to be of the 'Asian' rather than 'African' type, although tonal alternations can be morphologically productive.
- 'Tall' consonant systems with many phonation/etc. contrasts, except in the fricatives: Hlu /pʰ p ɓ mb m̥ m/, What /pʰ p ƥ ɓ m̥ m mˀ/. This tendency increases from west to east; Ziwanic languages have less developed systems. Ejectives, however, are generally absent.
- Something about egophoricity, probably.