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I'm gonna be putting up culture ideas and stuff that I have for the Veratinan culture((Veratina is an island that my characters Ramla and Tanali are from)).

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Words that don't translate to English correctly((Parts that are capitalized are where you put the emphasis and the "-"s break up the words into the proper syllables.)) :
Coruo((CUHoh-RUH-UHoh)): "Those who need nothing harm none"... direct translation. A better way to phrase it is that someone who won't gain anything from it won't harm someone.

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In Veratina, they use titles similar to Japanese suffixes. The titles are placed in front of a person's name or used as a pronoun((Although, in their culture, you rarely use pronouns)). I'll put these in a chart. Plural will be on the right side of the divider, single will be on the left. First person will be colored green. Second person formal will be red, second person personal will be orange. Third person male personal will be brown, third person male formal will be olive green. Third person female personal will be purple, third person female formal will be violet. Third person gender neutral will be blue.




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Everyone in Veratina((There's only about two hundred people on the island at a time, including random ninja who decide to go incognito and live there)) lives in one building. It's much easier to just have one building that has everyone's homes, school, and work than to have many buildings that blow down easily. Every family takes care of each other's kids and children grown up in an environment where everyone's like siblings.