Tomerian [TMR]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tomerian
Tomerian is an agglutinative language with OSV word order, 38 grammatical cases (mostly corresponding to adpositions), a large phonetic inventory.
In Tomerian, adjectives are either affixed to the noun they modify, or are treated as a genitive noun, though the latter is usually reserved for proper nouns. There are no true, grammatically correct adjective phrases in Tomerian, but are expressed with nouns:
Älmat níru kor.
sadness.ACCAccusative (case)
TRANS direct object; patient 1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I.NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument.MMasculine gender (gender)
masculine or male have.1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I.PRESPresent tense (tense)
current
"I have sadness."/"I am sad."
Pronouns and verb conjugation are marked in the 1-4th persons. Pronoun roots have masculine and feminine suffixes -ru and -na added to any of them when applicable.
Noun cases and verb moods are marked by largely regular suffixes. Time and space are distinguished in cases. For example:
cŭinchë "at [a] place"
hénze "at night"
benthánmod "before [the] king"
töshmatic "ere dawn"
Among the cases, there is a distinction between the instrumental, comitative, and ornative cases. I will demonstrate this with sentences about a crazy guy and his knife.
Oru doshtaq silakün. "He left equipped with [a] knife." (Ornative)
Ont oru a̋vaq silatäy "He skinned it with [the] knife." (Instrumental)
Oru chelaq silada. "He talked with [the] knife." (Comitative)
I am currently in the process of creating consistency after a major retcon, as I have to rebuild my vocabulary, as I lost some 4000 words a year ago, and I'm trying to make the language look cleaner. (Changing sz's to sh's, and so on).
In Tomerian, adjectives are either affixed to the noun they modify, or are treated as a genitive noun, though the latter is usually reserved for proper nouns. There are no true, grammatically correct adjective phrases in Tomerian, but are expressed with nouns:
Älmat níru kor.
sadness.ACCAccusative (case)
TRANS direct object; patient 1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I.NOMNominative (case)
TRANS subject, INTR argument.MMasculine gender (gender)
masculine or male have.1SFirst person singular (person)
speaker, signer, etc.; I.PRESPresent tense (tense)
current
"I have sadness."/"I am sad."
Pronouns and verb conjugation are marked in the 1-4th persons. Pronoun roots have masculine and feminine suffixes -ru and -na added to any of them when applicable.
Noun cases and verb moods are marked by largely regular suffixes. Time and space are distinguished in cases. For example:
cŭinchë "at [a] place"
hénze "at night"
benthánmod "before [the] king"
töshmatic "ere dawn"
Among the cases, there is a distinction between the instrumental, comitative, and ornative cases. I will demonstrate this with sentences about a crazy guy and his knife.
Oru doshtaq silakün. "He left equipped with [a] knife." (Ornative)
Ont oru a̋vaq silatäy "He skinned it with [the] knife." (Instrumental)
Oru chelaq silada. "He talked with [the] knife." (Comitative)
I am currently in the process of creating consistency after a major retcon, as I have to rebuild my vocabulary, as I lost some 4000 words a year ago, and I'm trying to make the language look cleaner. (Changing sz's to sh's, and so on).
Sound samples in Tomerian
Some sound samples of Tomerian. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
Shürlerctǃ
Do not cry!
Do not cry!
Óttuzgarant du, goglt dorum.
I'm a cripple, not an idiot.
I'm a cripple, not an idiot.
Lámadant jáglu shvíla.
My dog sells hats.
My dog sells hats.
Pléchat tsvarqŭildis cavl ka.
The horse has a chestnut mane.
The horse has a chestnut mane.
Ghomanat te ydín chóna.
The girl eats spiders.
The girl eats spiders.
Nirut vigh bsi danan vechegdhe̋l she sayze.
Only three people tried to kill me today.
Only three people tried to kill me today.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Epiglottal | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||||
| Nasal | m̥1 | m | n n̥2 | ɳ ɳ̥ | ɲ ɲʷ ɲ̥ʷ ɲ̥3 | ŋ ŋ̥4 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Plosive | [p]5 | b | t tʼ | d | ʈ ʈʼ6 | ɖ | c cʷ | ɟ ɟʷ | k kʼ | g | ||||||||||||||
| Fricative | ɸ | v | θ | ð | s | z | ʃ | ʒ | ç çʷ | ʝ ʝʷ | x̠ | ɣ̠ | ʜ | h | ||||||||||
| Affricate | t͡s | d͡z | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | c͡ç c͡çʷ | ɟ͡ʝ ɟ͡ʝʷ | ||||||||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | ɭ | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ɥ | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Blends | dts | dt | ɟc | gk | dtʃ | bp |
- pronounced as /ɸ̃/ in certain positions
- pronounced as /ɬ̃/ in certain positions
- pronounced as /ç̃/ in certain positions
- pronounced as /x̃/ in certain positions
- In certain dialects, allophone of /b/
- Rare lexically, but occurs frequently in speech as part of the prohibitive verb marker.
| Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
| Close | i: | y: | [ɨ]1 | ɯ: | u: | |||||
| Near-close | ɪ | ʏ | ʊ | |||||||
| Close-mid | e: | ø | o | |||||||
| Open-mid | ɛ | œ: | ɜ | ɔ: | ||||||
| Near-open | æ: | |||||||||
| Open | ɶ: | ɑ | ɒ | |||||||
| Polyphthongs | æɜ̯ |
- Functions as a schwi, and is never written or stressed. Can occur in complex consonant clusters.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Tomerian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 TomerianOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| Ää Äv /ɒ/ | Aa Alev /ɑ/ | Bb Ben /b/ | Cc Cán /kʼ/ | CH ch Chez /t͡ʃ/ | Dd Dán /d/ | DH dh Dhen /ð/ | DZ dz Dzán /d͡z/ | Ëë Ër /ɜ/ | Ee Én /ɛ/ |
| Gg Gim /g/ | GH gh Ghär /ɣ̠/ | Hh Hán /h/ | Ïï Ëch /:/ | Ii Ir /ɪ/ | Jj Ján /d͡ʒ/ | Kk Kär /k/ | KH kh Khär /x̠/ | Ll Lán /l/ | Mm Mán /m/ |
| Nn När /n/ | Ññ Ñán /ŋ/ | Öö Őd /ø/ | Oo Ól /o/ | Pp Pán /ɸ/ | Qq Qar /ʜ/ | Rr Rez /r/ | RH rh Rhär /ʒ/ | Ss Sán /s/ | SH sh Shen /ʃ/ |
| Tt Ten /t/ | TH th Then /θ/ | TS ts Tsel /t͡s/ | Ŭŭ Ŭan /w/ | Üü Üz /ʏ/ | Uu Uln /ʊ/ | Vv Vod /v/ | Yy Yär /j/ | Y̊ẙ Y̊ar /ɥ/ | Zz Zen /z/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
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