Tamerin [TAME]
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Language type
A posteriori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tamerin
た み り だ ね
Tamerin is a language spoken in the mountainous regions in North-West of
Retenia.
For years, this language has been a puzzle for historians. Actually, the vocabulary of this language seems to be cognate with Berber and other Afro-asiatic languages but the syntax and other thing are different... and there are also loanwords from Indo-Europeans languages (
Dunari, 
Southern Retenic) but also words that seems to be related with a Pre Indo-European substratum found in South-Western Europe (like in Standard Retenian)
Nowadays, studies show that Tamerin people are related with Berbers and seems to be descendant from the Crenellated ceramic bowl culture that dominated the South of Retenia during the neolitic between the 4th and 2nd millenium BC before being displaced by the migration of Proto-Retenians from the Iberic peninsula. So, the ancestors of Tamerin moved to the hills between the Central Plain and the Western mountains where they were displaced by Retenians that migrated from the central plain (Dunaris), and then they moved again to the mountains in North-West where their descendants still live today.
The high difference between Tamerin and Berbers language in North Africa is because they are separed since at least 5000 years. Tamerinic branch diverged since the Proto-Berber I stade.
Tamerin is written with the Retenian syllabary, but the pronounciation of the letters is not exactly the same that in Standard Retenian and less letters are used (Only Ca, Ci and Cu letters are used + Ce letters for the final letter of CvC consonant and the devowelizer is not mandatory, so "iksinda" could be written いけしねだ or いけエしねエだ)
た み り だ ね
Tamerin is a language spoken in the mountainous regions in North-West of
Retenia.For years, this language has been a puzzle for historians. Actually, the vocabulary of this language seems to be cognate with Berber and other Afro-asiatic languages but the syntax and other thing are different... and there are also loanwords from Indo-Europeans languages (
Dunari, Southern Retenic) but also words that seems to be related with a Pre Indo-European substratum found in South-Western Europe (like in Standard Retenian)Nowadays, studies show that Tamerin people are related with Berbers and seems to be descendant from the Crenellated ceramic bowl culture that dominated the South of Retenia during the neolitic between the 4th and 2nd millenium BC before being displaced by the migration of Proto-Retenians from the Iberic peninsula. So, the ancestors of Tamerin moved to the hills between the Central Plain and the Western mountains where they were displaced by Retenians that migrated from the central plain (Dunaris), and then they moved again to the mountains in North-West where their descendants still live today.
The high difference between Tamerin and Berbers language in North Africa is because they are separed since at least 5000 years. Tamerinic branch diverged since the Proto-Berber I stade.
Tamerin is written with the Retenian syllabary, but the pronounciation of the letters is not exactly the same that in Standard Retenian and less letters are used (Only Ca, Ci and Cu letters are used + Ce letters for the final letter of CvC consonant and the devowelizer is not mandatory, so "iksinda" could be written いけしねだ or いけエしねエだ)
Language family relationships
Language treeAfroasiatic
⤷ Proto-Afroasiatic
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Tamerin
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Tamerin[view] About AfroasiaticThe Afroasiatic languages are a major language family of the Middle East, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, and the Sahel. They have over 350 million native speakers, and include the liturgical languages of multiple religions, including Islam, Judais...
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ɲ | |||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʰ | [t]1 tʰ | (cʲ) | [k]2 kʰ | ||||||||||
| Fricative | (ɸ) | β | (f) | s s̺ | ɕ | ʑ | (çʲ) | x | h | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡s̺ | t͡ɕ | ||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||||
- allophone of /tʰ/
- allophone of /kʰ/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | [ɨ]1 | [ʉ]2 | u | ||
| Mid | e̞ | o̞ | ||||
| Near-open | [ɐ]3 | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
- allophone of /i/
- allophone of /u/
- allophone of /a/
OtherTamerin has 3 basic vowels that are /a/, /i/ and /u/ that are pronounced respectively [a], [i], [u]. When they are in unstressed syllables, most speakers pronounce them as [ɐ], [ɨ] and [ʉ].
The phonemes [o] (written /aw/) and [e] (written /ay/) evoluted from diphtongues that were attested in medieval tamerin.
The phonemes [o] (written /aw/) and [e] (written /ay/) evoluted from diphtongues that were attested in medieval tamerin.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tamerin. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| TamerinOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Aa/a/, [ɐ] | AW aw/o̞/ | AY ay/e̞/ | Bb/p/ | Dd/t/ | Ff/f/1, [ɸ]2 | Gg/k/ | Hh/h/ | HY hy/çʲ/3 | Ii/i/, [ɨ] |
| Jj/ʑ/ | Kk/kʰ/, [k] | KY ky/cʲ/4 | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NY ny/ɲ/ | Pp/pʰ/, [p] | Qq/x/ | Rr/ɾ/ |
| Ss/s̺/ | Tt/tʰ/, [t] | TS ts/t͡s̺/ | TX tx/t͡ɕ/ | TZ tz/t͡s/ | Uu/u/, [ʉ] | Ww/β/ | Xx/ɕ/ | Zz/s/ | |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
- loan words only
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