Old Taje [ODJ]
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Language type
Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species
Human/humanoid
About Old Taje
Old Taje is a liturgical language with no native speakers. It's influence remains in the languages related to classical Pakkia, Angras and Kuxnay.
- Taje is mainly SVO, but doesn't have a consistant head-directionally and many phrases can be structed as SOV
- Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs don't conjugate, instead being marked by auxiliaries after the base word.
- Consonant length or gemination is very important, with nasal being able to be geminated not just once (n:), but twice (n::).
- There are four tones in Taje, high (á), low (à), rising (â), and falling (ǎ)
- Taje is strictly CV, with vowel-inital words being permitted, but not common.
- Taje is mainly SVO, but doesn't have a consistant head-directionally and many phrases can be structed as SOV
- Verbs, Adjectives and Adverbs don't conjugate, instead being marked by auxiliaries after the base word.
- Consonant length or gemination is very important, with nasal being able to be geminated not just once (n:), but twice (n::).
- There are four tones in Taje, high (á), low (à), rising (â), and falling (ǎ)
- Taje is strictly CV, with vowel-inital words being permitted, but not common.
Sample of Old Taje[view] dàdàr'hù wúnnn jǽgǽ pǐj ssúlìs' dǔrù ssúlìs'. wúnnn jǽgǽ pǐj ár'kí dǔrù ssúlìs'.
Of course you fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire.[view all texts]
Of course you fight fire with fire. You should fight everything with fire.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
[view] About Tajap'A dyeing language family known for a four-part tone system, simple syllable structure, tense ambiguity and an analytic morpho-syntactic alignment.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m m:: m: | n n:: n: | ||||||||||
| Plosive | p | t | d | k | g | ʔ | ||||||
| Fricative | s s: | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | ʟ | |||||||||||
| Approximant | w | |||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | î í ì ǐ | û ú ù ǔ | ||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open | â á à ǎ | ɒ̂ ɒ́ ɒ̀ ɒ̌ | ||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Old Taje. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Old TajeOrthography [edit] | ||||||||
| à à /à/ | á á /á/ | â â /ǎ/ | ǎ ǎ /â/ | c c /t͡ʃ/ | d d /d/ | è è /ɒ̀/ | é é /ɒ́/ | ê ê /ɒ̌/ |
| ě ě /ɒ̂/ | g g /g/ | h h /h/ | ì ì /ì/ | î î /ǐ/ | ǐ ǐ /î/ | j j /d͡ʒ/ | k k /k/ | l l /ʟ/ |
| m m /m/ | mm mm /m:/ | mmm mmm /m::/ | n n /n/ | nn nn /n:/ | nnn nnn /n::/ | p p /p/ | r r /r/ | s s /s/ |
| ss ss /s:/ | t t /t/ | ù ù /ù/ | ú ú /ú/ | û û /ǔ/ | ǔ ǔ /û/ | w w /w/ | í í /í/ | |
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||
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