Tagira [XYG]
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[Deactivated User] on 15 November 2019
Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Tagira
Tagira is my first conlang. The only stated goal is to help me learn to conlang. I'm not trying to make a naturalistic conlang.
Grammar is a tough subject, but I'm learning as I go. This language is a fun experiment.
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...
*There are no question-words, and no questions. It's all imperatives: "tell me", instead of "what?"
*The script is an abugida. The default vowel is 'a'. Vowels are added onto the ends of the base consonant. That makes producing the font difficult to say the least. Here is an outdated example of the script, showing how it looks with vowels attached: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 current font is a work-in-progress. It's hard to make a font for a syllabary work.
Old/Outdated Consonants: BFGHMKLPRSNTVWY
Outdated Transliteration of ConWorkShop:
4 N WRK5P
Ka N W . R K Sa P
Tagira is my first conlang. The only stated goal is to help me learn to conlang. I'm not trying to make a naturalistic conlang.
Grammar is a tough subject, but I'm learning as I go. This language is a fun experiment.
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...
*There are no question-words, and no questions. It's all imperatives: "tell me", instead of "what?"
*The script is an abugida. The default vowel is 'a'. Vowels are added onto the ends of the base consonant. That makes producing the font difficult to say the least. Here is an outdated example of the script, showing how it looks with vowels attached: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 current font is a work-in-progress. It's hard to make a font for a syllabary work.
Old/Outdated Consonants: BFGHMKLPRSNTVWY
Outdated Transliteration of ConWorkShop: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 | gɑ | kɑi | ri | kɑ | ti | sɑ | nɑ |
- 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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