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''Totally not [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvan_language Tuvan]''


Mörgül was an undeciphered and extinct language potentially spoken in [[Miŋejacár|Miŋejácár]]. Its existence was revealed to the world at the [[UŊ Meeting#Twelfth Meeting|Twelfth UŊ Meeting]] on 27/4/2024 by [[Hilja]]. Following this, the linguists [[Elisa]] of [[Fishland]] and [[Kakavasha]] of [[Hentzo]] would analyse it to determine its affinity.

It was eventually revealed to have been Tuvan.

== Corpus ==
The Corpus of Mörgül consists of the book after which the language is named, as well as the names of a handful of tools, all found in [[Ŋájaþáw]], [[Miŋejacár|Miŋejácár]]. 

=== Мөргүл ===

=== Tools ===

* A trident named Хар Аянга
* A sword named Зрлэг Хааний Хумс, translated by [[SeoReadeHenn|Seo]] as ‘<unknown> royal nail’

== Analysis ==
Due to the fact that all known attestations are in the Cyrillic script, it was initially postulated to be a [[Mary-Moldovan languages|Mary-Moldovan language]]. This was quickly refuted by [[Mary]], however. On the 28th, [[Elisa]] suggested the language belonged to a previously unattested family of [[Miŋejácáric languages]], but that it possibly showed influence from [[Mary-Moldovan languages]] as well. Using her knowledge of this family, she suggested the language to be ergative-absolutive, as the apparent nominative form of the word for I began with m-. In addition, she stated the language showed clear evidence of vowel harmony.

Based on Extranguhcraftial knowledge, she was able to begin deciphering some of the lexemes, such as тей, meaning ‘hill’. She and [[Kakavasha]] then slowly began writing a full translation of Мөргүл. [[Kakavasha]] noted during this writing that Mörgül appeared to possess long vowels as well as geminates, and discussed whether the distinction between е and э was mainly qualitative or mainly length-based.

After her analysis, [[Elisa]] asked [[JANVS]], author of the Mörgül book and presumed sole current speaker of the language about his opinion on the language and whether he had any more documentation. [[Fin]] suggested it "might just be Mongolian or another Central Asian language," which Elisa rejected. 45 minutes later, Janus said it was Tuvan, proving Fin's assessment correct.<ref>https://discord.com/channels/697450809390268467/767569743229747220/1389449894791745668</ref>

== Reconstruction ==
to be written with a1 a2 e1 e2 and shit, we just pretend we don‘t already know what it is
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