Tagira [XYG]
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Justin C 333 on 15 November 2019
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tagira
Thanks for reading about my language!
869 is my first conlang. The only stated goal is to help me learn to conlang.
Grammar is a tough subject, but I'm learning as I go. This language is a fun experiment for me, and I'm not trying to make it naturalistic.
Tagira characteristics:
*VSO
*Isolating & Analytical
*Postpositions
*Possessee before possessor
*NO /d/?! -It only occurs sometimes as an intervocalic voiced /t/. Nobody even notices that it's gone...
*Every noun is assumed plural; there's a modifier "na" 7 to make a noun explicitly singular. "We" is used when a person is speaking about him/her/itself, except in specific circumstances when "I" is used. For more information, read the article "Singular and Plural".
(The following is outdated)
*The script is an abjad. Unmodified letters are consonants. Vowel diacritics (the unique ends that you can see on the 'stand-alone' vowels) are added to the ends of the consonants' lines, not just above. That makes producing the font difficult to say the least. Here is an example of how it looks with vowels attached:
*The language is written without spaces, left to right. It has a ceremonial form that is written in a spiral.
*I decided that each C(V) needs to be written with one stroke of the pen. The "i" is the only exception.
The current font is a work-in-progress. It's hard to make a font for a syllabary work.
Consonants: BFGHMKLPRSNTVWY
Vowels (standing alone): AEIOU
Transliteration of ConWorkShop:
4 N WRK5P
Ka N W . R K Sa P
869 is my first conlang. The only stated goal is to help me learn to conlang.
Grammar is a tough subject, but I'm learning as I go. This language is a fun experiment for me, and I'm not trying to make it naturalistic.
Tagira characteristics:
*VSO
*Isolating & Analytical
*Postpositions
*Possessee before possessor
*NO /d/?! -It only occurs sometimes as an intervocalic voiced /t/. Nobody even notices that it's gone...
*Every noun is assumed plural; there's a modifier "na" 7 to make a noun explicitly singular. "We" is used when a person is speaking about him/her/itself, except in specific circumstances when "I" is used. For more information, read the article "Singular and Plural".
(The following is outdated)
*The script is an abjad. Unmodified letters are consonants. Vowel diacritics (the unique ends that you can see on the 'stand-alone' vowels) are added to the ends of the consonants' lines, not just above. That makes producing the font difficult to say the least. Here is an example of how it looks with vowels attached:
*The language is written without spaces, left to right. It has a ceremonial form that is written in a spiral.
*I decided that each C(V) needs to be written with one stroke of the pen. The "i" is the only exception.
The current font is a work-in-progress. It's hard to make a font for a syllabary work.
Consonants: BFGHMKLPRSNTVWY
Vowels (standing alone): AEIOU
Transliteration of ConWorkShop:
4 N WRK5P
Ka N W . R K Sa P
Language family relationships
Language treeProto-Tigari
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Tagira
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Tagira[view] About Proto-TigariThis is the proto-language for my conlang.
[view] Teidas (Teidas)Spoken in locations scattered throughout the whole region, by a small fraction of the population. The main difference is that t is realized as d intervocally. S can also be sometimes realized as z intervocally.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | k | g | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | s | [ʃ]1 | h | |||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | ɹ | j | w | |||||||||||||
| Trill | (ʙ) | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | kɑ | kɑi | sɑ | gɑ | nɑ | ti | ri |
- allophone of /s/
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | o | |||
| Open-mid | ɛ | |||
| Open | ɑ | |||
| Polyphthongs | ɛi | ɑi |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tagira. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| TagiraOrthography | |||||||||
| 3 3 /kɑi/ | 4 4 /kɑ/ | 5 5 /sɑ/ | 6 6 /gɑ/ | 7 7 /nɑ/ | 8 8 /ti/ | 9 9 /ri/ | : : /ɑi/ | ; ; /ɛi/ | A Aa /ɑ/ |
| B Bb /b/ | C Cc /ʙ/1 | E Ee /ɛ/ | F Ff /f/ | G Gg /g/ | H Hh /h/ | I Ii /i/ | K Kk /k/ | L Ll /l/ | M Mm /m/ |
| N Nn /n/ | O Oo /o/ | P Pp /p/ | R Rr /ɹ/ | S Ss /s/, [ʃ] | T Tt /t/ | U Uu /u/ | V Vv /v/ | W Ww /w/ | Y Yy /j/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||
- loan words only
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