Interior Vipodoȟ

From Almeopedia

Interior Vipodoȟ is a small language family found in Vipodoȟ and the western Rau jungle.

Very little is known of these languages, as they are found in remote tropical areas extremely insalubrious for Verdurians. A wordlist exists for the southernmost language, Mado, collected by a particularly hardy explorer, but the accompanying details seem unlikely— e.g. that the language is particularly suited to complaint and submission, or that the men all speak in falsetto. The claim is sometimes made that the language has only a hundred roots, but this is now considered to be a calumny of the neighboring Fredi people, who consider the Mado to be childlike savages, partly because they do not wear clothes and have no metallurgy.

A list of known languages and their locations:

• Mado, spoken along the upper Pértui and on the northern shores of lake Mávya
• Arnó, spoken to the east of lake Mávya
• Lisybem, spoken on the northern coast
• Ŋka, spoken along the lower Kita river near the Zone of Fire
• Odeʔé, spoken along the upper Kita
• ʔTütürna, spoken in the Rau jungle, to the east of Vipodoȟ

A curiosity of most of the languages in the family, excluding Mado, is final stress. (Lisybem is not an exception; the name is Verdurian, meaning 'bald-head'-- the native name is Bití.)