Ejai [EJI]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ejai
Ǖgü duk bikrẽt!
Ǖgü duk bikrẽt!
[ˈy:gy ˈdɵk ˈbikrɛ̃t]
Welcome!
Let me introduce the
Ejai language, or Classical-Ejai.
Full (WIP) grammar doc (last update 20 Aug 2024): here
Corpus of Ejai literature (last update 09 April 2024):here
Ejai is a daughter language of
Ancient-Mawic, so they share many features. Both of them have fluid-S allignment, vowel harmony, dual numbers, ect, but ejai has lost it's evidential distinctions, and evolved it into a future tense.
mẽt - get => mẽttî - got => zirm mẽtaf - will get
Ejai has only 7 noun cases, and the accusative became unmarked.
Some AWM suffixes fused together, and the grammar became more synthetic (?).
mẽtĩg => mẽt - get /-ĩg - suffix(PREPresent.PFVPerfective (aspect)
completed action.OPTOptative (mood)
'wish, hope')
Ejai uses a lot of infixes, especially, when words end with a consonant cluster.
Lekkî - brush (ACCAccusative (case)
TRANS direct object; patient / ABSAbsolutive (case)
TRANS object, INTR argument) = > Lekük - brush (NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument)
Ǖgü duk bikrẽt!
Ǖgü duk bikrẽt!
[ˈy:gy ˈdɵk ˈbikrɛ̃t]
Welcome!
Let me introduce the
Ejai language, or Classical-Ejai.Full (WIP) grammar doc (last update 20 Aug 2024): here
Corpus of Ejai literature (last update 09 April 2024):here
Ejai is a daughter language of
Ancient-Mawic, so they share many features. Both of them have fluid-S allignment, vowel harmony, dual numbers, ect, but ejai has lost it's evidential distinctions, and evolved it into a future tense.mẽt - get => mẽttî - got => zirm mẽtaf - will get
Ejai has only 7 noun cases, and the accusative became unmarked.
Some AWM suffixes fused together, and the grammar became more synthetic (?).
mẽtĩg => mẽt - get /-ĩg - suffix(PREPresent.PFVPerfective (aspect)
completed action.OPTOptative (mood)
'wish, hope')
Ejai uses a lot of infixes, especially, when words end with a consonant cluster.
Lekkî - brush (ACCAccusative (case)
TRANS direct object; patient / ABSAbsolutive (case)
TRANS object, INTR argument) = > Lekük - brush (NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument)
Language family relationships
Language treeMawo-Caláic
⤷
Proto-Mawo-Caláic
⤷ Mawic languages
⤷ Ancient-Mawic
⤷ Ejai
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Proto-Mawo-Caláic⤷ Mawic languages
⤷
Ancient-Mawic⤷
Ejai [edit] [view] Siilan (Sila)Shila is a dialect of Classical-Ejai spoken in the region of Shiüla. Some important differences are /y/ and /i/ are merged together to /i/. There are no nasal vowels. Post-Alveolar and Alveolo-palatal consonants became alveolar. /ç/, /x/ are pronounced as /ʃ/, /h/ is silent. Consonant clusters merge into breathe or aspirated consonants, like: /dg/ => [gʱ].
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | p [pʰ]1 | b bʱ | t [tʲ]2 [tʰ]3 | d [dʱ]4 | c | ɟ | k [kʰ]5 | g [gʱ]6 | q | |||||||||||
| Fricative | f | v | [θ]7 | [ð]8 | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | [ɕ]9 | [ʑ]10 | [ç]11 | [x]12 | [ɣ]13 | h | ||||||
| Affricate | t͡s [ⁿt͡s] | d͡z [ⁿd͡z] | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | [t͡ɕ]14 | [d͡ʑ]15 | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | |||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | [ʀ]16 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Flap | [ɾ]17 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | [t͡ç] |
- allophone of /p/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /d/
- allophone of /k/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /t/
- allophone of /r/
- allophone of /ʃ/
- allophone of /ʒ/
- at the end of the word, before [i], allophone of /h/
- at the end of the word after any other vowel, allophone of /h/
- allophone of /g/
- allophone of /t͡ʃ/
- allophone of /d͡ʒ/
- after /r/+V, allophone of /r/
- between vowels, allophone of /r/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i1 [i:]2 ĩ | y [y:]3 | u [u:]4 ũ | |||
| Close-mid | e: | [ɵ]5 | o: | |||
| Mid | [ə]6 | |||||
| Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̃ | ɔ ɔ̃ | ||||
| Near-open | [æ]7 | |||||
| Open | a a: ã | |||||
- stressed
- before /h/+C, allophone of /i/
- before /h/+C, allophone of /y/
- before /h/+C, allophone of /u/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /a/
- allophone of /a/
Syllable Structure(C)(C)V(R/C)(C)
R=/r/,/j/,/l/
R=/r/,/j/,/l/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ejai. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| EjaiOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
| Aa Aa a /a/ | Āā Āā /a:/ | Áá Áá /a/1 | Ââ Ââ a südagütü /a/ | Ãã Ãã ana /ã/ | Bb Bb beij /b/ | Çç Çç çara /t͡ʃ/ | Dd Dd didzek /d/ | Ḑḑ Ḑḑ ḑane /d͡ʒ/ | Ðð Ðð [ð] | Ee Ee e /ɛ/ |
| Ēē Ēē /e:/ | Éé Éé /ɛ/ | Êê Êê e südagütü /ɛ/ | Ẽẽ Ẽẽ ene /ɛ̃/ | Ff Ff fa /f/ | Gg Gg ga /g/ | Hh Hh ha /h/ | Ii Ii i /i/ | Īī Īī /i:/ | Íí Íí /i/2 | Îî Îî /i/ |
| Ĩĩ Ĩĩ ini /ĩ/ | Jj Jj jalü /ʒ/ | Ĵĵ Ĵĵ ĵa /ɟ/ | Kk Kk ka /k/ | Ll Ll lihet /l/ | Mm Mm madur /m/ | Nn Nn nasai /n/ | Ññ Ññ ña /ɲ/ | Ŋŋ Ŋŋ na ka /ŋ/ | Oo Oo o /ɔ/ | Ōō Ōō /o:/ |
| Óó Óó /ɔ/ | Õõ Õõ ono /ɔ̃/ | Pp Pp pabaz /p/ | Qq Qq ka ka /q/ | Rr Rr rimaz /r/ | Ss Ss seged /s/ | Şş Şş şuns /ʃ/ | Tt Tt tetal /t/ | Ţţ Ţţ ţa /c/ | Uu Uu u /u/ | Ūū Ūū /u:/ |
| Úú Úú /u/ | Ûû Ûû [ɵ] | Ũũ Ũũ unu /ũ/ | Üü Üü ü /y/ | Ǖǖ Ǖǖ /y:/ | Vv Vv va /v/ | Yy Yy ya /j/ | Ŷŷ Ŷŷ ya südagütü /j/ | Zz Zz zigari /z/ | ||
| ✔ Shown in correct order [change] | ||||||||||
- stress marker
- stressed
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