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pˠɑlʋɛn / pˤɒ̰lʋʲən / pɜləʋʲən /  ǂʷɒ̥q'

qʲarʷːs / qɑ̰rʷəs / ɟærɵs

sa ɸɑlʋɛn / ⁿǃɑ̥ ʍɒ̰lʋʲən / ⁿǃæ̰ fɜləʋʲən / ǂʷɒ̥q'ǃa

nxa-falaven-I / nxa-falaven-II / nxa-falaven-III / falaven-nxa-VI ??

The language is well suited to a script, very likely a more true logographic script than Hanzi!

[sa] ~ ⁿǃɑ̥ ~ ⁿǃæ̰ ~ ⁿǃḁ ɑ ~ ɒ ~ ɜ a ~ ɑ ~ æ

Appears creaky voice is a side-effect of the informal register/modus or maybe an additional effect, stackable onto other modii?

pˤɒlʋʲən / pˤɒ̬lʋʲən / pˤɒ̰lʋʲən pɜləʋʲən / pɜ̬lʋʲən / pɜ̰lʋʲən

No acrolectic or formal modulation; acrolectic usage frowns upon modulation, primal usage operates other processes?

ǂʷɒq' / ǂʷɒ̤q' / ǂʷɒ̥q' ǂʷɒq'ǃa̬ / ǂʷɒ̤q'ǃa̬ / ǂʷɒ̥q'ǃa

The modii wouldn't be fixed but rather fluent and frequently switched-between. Talking to someone far above you would require explicit usage of only the acrolectic form, while general formalities can take a few informal forms. Informal speech can either take in acrolectic forms, for non-close persons, or personal for close persons. Personal speech can take on a few informal attributes, but doesn't often. Every speech form except the acrolectic can take in primal features such as hisses, clicks and ejectives. The primal speech form never takes in any of the other modal features and uses only primal ones. Within the tame form cluster, speech forms can take in things only from adjacent forms, except in some extremely specific circumstances in which the speaker wants to specifically emphasise a certain feature of the object (applicable only to the acrolectic and personal forms).

Feral clicks are part of every non-acrolectic speech form to some extent.

The modulations are:
 * 1) Acrolectic: Ø
 * 2) Consultative:  ~ ~ 
 * 3) Feral:  ~ ~ 
 * - Feral clitics have the equivalent:  ~ ~ 

Where in primal communication clitics stand after the word they modify and therefore bind to it, they behave like seperate words in consultative speech. Primal clitics most often conform to the modulation of the root of the word to which they bind, but can change their modulation in some circumstances.

Are there regular correspondences between the three tame modii?

Appears:
 * pˠɑlʋɛn ~ pˤɒlʋʲən ~ pɜləʋʲən
 * qʲarʷːs ~ qɑrʷəs ~ ɟærɵs

I don't really understand the connection between the first and second correspondences, as the pattern of the first doesn't fit the second. I guess I should analyse them as two different classes of words, since one is a personal name and the other a planetary name.

Word class would be a convenient way to have different alternations. I see the following attributes change in the first class:
 * 1) ~  ~  (/p/)
 * 2) ~  ~  (/ɛ/)
 * 3) ~  ~  (anaptyxic vowel [ə])

There might be several different archiphonemes that are realised the same in one modus but differently in another. Palatalisation could conceivably be a result of the reduction of /ɛ/ into /ʲə/. That would mean:
 * - [ʋɛ] ~  [ʋʲə] ~  [ʋʲə]

The suprasegmental alternations of apparent /p/ could perhaps be transformed into:
 * - pˠɑ ~ pˤɒ ~ pɜ
 * - pˠ + ɑ ~ pˠ + ˠɒ ~ pˠ + ʲɜ

Thus the suprasegmentality could be cumulative. Explanation: diachronics, some pharyngeal consonant (possibly /ħ/) had stuff to do with it.

What should be taken as the default form? This bugs me a bit, as I don't know. All three modii have their differences, and while the acrolect is usually somewhat less marked (at least in the first class), the personal modus has unmarked features as well. There doesn't seem to be a totally neutral common ground, as all three modii differ from each other.

Could it possibly mean that the acrolect is actually the most marked form? That would make some sort of sense. That gives me the idea of the following sound law:
 * 1)Acrolectic
 * ja ~ jə > ɛ
 * 2)Consultative
 * ja ~ jə > ʲə

These are a rough draft of what could've caused the <ɛ ~ ʲə> alternation, without any enviroment or trigger included. The change possibly doesn't permeate all enviroments.

Terminology
A register is one of the four forms of speech, also called a modus. A speech form is a very close and related concept, but not the same thing. Where a modus is clean-cut and precisely defined as containing certain forms, a speech form is a manner of speaking, conforming to a primary modus and taking in attributes of other modii. While "speech form" is a descriptive term, "modus" is a prescriptive term. A speech form may mesh elements from modii other than its primary. Speech forms are named according to their primary modus. The primal speech form is the cleanest-cut one, being identical to the primal modus.

A modulation is a grade in the voicing ablaut. There are three modulations. Acrolectic words do not modulate.