Thinking about Time in Elush | Worldbuilding + Conlanging

Abstract ideas are really hard to communicate and think about, so we try and use concrete experiences as a framework.

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Music: Venkatesanda by Jesse Gallagher

Sources:
Conceptual metaphors: Metaphors We Live By, George Lakoff + Mark Johnson
Spatial time metaphors: https://core.ac.uk/download/pdf/26797...
Different directions in different contexts: https://link.springer.com/article/10....
Mandarin time: https://web.stanford.edu/class/think5...
Aymara evidentiality: A Grammar of Muylaq' Aymara, Matt Coler
Malagasy evidentiality: The Austronesian Languages of Asia and Madagascar, Alexander Adelaar + Nikolaus Himmelmann
Maori time: https://www.thehourglass.com/cultural...
Maori time: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full...
Yupno time: https://www.newscientist.com/article/..., https://www.nationalgeographic.com/cu...
Tells: Material Geographies of House Societies, Ian Kuijt

Things I didn't actually reference but are still interesting:
Yupno time, referencing the world rather than body position: https://www.scientificamerican.com/in...
Vietnamese: https://www.degruyter.com/document/do...
Bilingualism: https://theconversation.com/language-...

Images:
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tell_(a...
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