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Expanded introduction sections, beginning Part I, added first words in glossary, fix build, fix document structure

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% !TeX spellcheck = en
% !TeX root = document.tex
\part{A Language for the Hazn}
\chapter{Overview}
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One difficulty I had while designing the language, is dealing with \textit{credibility}.
Do I \textit{need} to prefer \textbf{realism} or \textbf{fanciness}?
I came to the conclusion that you can't `just' have either, if my goal is to make them adhere to a \textit{concept}, so it meant that I tried to actually have `both' in a certain percentage.
I am not by far a zoologist or student in any way, so I chose the sounds on the \textit{IPA} table that I thought the Hazn would most likely use, and also added some quirky almost unpronounceable ones which humans cannot not easily produce if not by approximation, which is a nice little device for storywriting and the design of an intermediate language.
I am not by far a zoologist or student in any way, so I chose the sounds on the \texttitle{IPA} table that I thought the Hazn would most likely use, and also added some quirky almost unpronounceable ones which humans cannot not easily produce if not by approximation, which is a nice little device for storywriting and the design of an intermediate language.
\par Because of that, standard transliteration rules have been created that approximate the actual sounds, which will be indicated by \textphonlitex{X} where \textquot{X} will be the sound in question, mapped in Latin characters with conventions as defined in \autoref{sec:conventions}.
\section{The Windblowers of Destiny}
The first Hazn founded a city in a large windy valley called ``Kuar'' (which means `tall-standing' in ancient \textit{Bregog}, the common one spoken by the majority of human locals), so much windy in fact, that they had to build themselves a safe enclosure to be protected against dust, leaves and sometimes even trees. The vally is shaped like a basin, surrounded in circle by the Kuar mountains, which amplifies the winds during the season between autumn and winter, called `\gls{shfs}` (lit. ``season of winds''), typical of Sertox's climate cycle.
\section{Society}
\chapter{Phonetics}
\section{Conventions}
\label{sec:conventions}