Dialects

Many dialects and sister languages of Sajem Tan exist. On this page, you will be able to read about them all.

Sajem Gavmötëc
Sajem Gavmötëc is a sister language of Sajem Tan created by Snym (Cloud). It is spoken in the region of Gavmöt, and it has been significantly influenced by the Gavmöt languages, such as B'arthedhom.

Grammar
In Sajem Gavmötëc, there are four grammatical genders, or animacies: faunal, floral, lithic, aerial, and neutral.

Sajem Gavmötëc has OSV word order, and the same case system as Sajem Tan except that the accusative is marked with the prefix ëlto-.

Ţeţat Tan
Ţeţat Tan is a dialect (or possibly a sister language) created by Ţeţat (Wind). One of its defining features is vowel harmony. It also has far less influence from Xanzite.

Grammar
Verb conjugation in Ţeţat Tan is very different from how it is in standard Sajem Tan.

Ţeţat Tan has a type of vowel harmony called "roundness harmony". The vowel harmony pairs in Ţeţat Tan are i/y, e/ø, ə/u, and a/o.

Tözen Tan
Tözen Tan is a dialect of Sajem Tan created by Tözen (Fog). It is the dialect spoken by the Foglodytes. It differs only slightly from Sajem Tan phonologically, but grammatical changes are more noticeable.

Vowels
The vowels on Tözen Tan underwent major changes from those of Sajem Tan. As you can see in the second figure in the following gallery and the following table, at first, many vowels merged, reducing the number of vowels from 12 to 7. Then, they diverged again, this time into strong and lax values. Linguists generally believe that the distinction between strong and lax is allophonic rather than phonemic, because it is affected by the environment and is entirely predictable. This distinction is also found in words of non-Sajem Tan origin. A vowel's quality is dependent on its environment. A vowel is lax when followed by a nasal consonant (/m/, /n/), an approximant (/j/), a voiceless plosive (/t/, /k/, /p/, /t͡s/), or a voiceless fricative (/θ/, /h/, /f/, /s/, /ʃ/). A vowel is strong when followed by a voiced plosive (/d/, /g/, /b/), a voiced fricative (/v/, /z/, /ʒ/), the laterals (/ɬ/ and /l/), and when it comes at the end of a word, unfollowed by a consonant. Some examples are in the list below.U
 * ST sösöm [søsøm] "spectrum" > TT sösöm [1sɞsɞm]
 * ST dejizön [dejizøn] "wood" > TT dejizön [5dɛjizɞn]
 * ST -fê [fɛ] "perfective marker" > TT fe [fe]
 * Fog uchūmās [5ut͡ɕuu1maas] "Tözendin" > TT ucumas [5ʊt͡sʊmɑs]

Accent
Since Sajem Tan does not have an accent system, the Foglodytes imposed their pitch accent on it. Words in Tözen Tan are separated into feet, each consisting of up to three morae. Long syllables count as two morae, and short syllables count as one. The last mora in a foot must be low pitch, and there can be only one high pitch mora in each foot. The pitch accent system in Tözen Tan is largely the same as that of Foglodyte, having five patterns: Iambic and anapestic words are rare, and, according to some interpretations, nonexistent. For example, the word Sajemtan has been analyzed as an anapest, but it is now thought to be two words: Sajem Tan [˦sɑ˨jɛm ˦tɑn].
 * 1) trochaic: a two-mora word in which the first mora has a high pitch, and the second has a low pitch. Example: viţit [˦vɪ˨θɪt] "bird"
 * 2) iambic: a two-mora word in which the first mora has a low pitch, and the second one has a high pitch.
 * 3) dactylic: a three-mora word in which the first mora has a high pitch, and the rest have low pitches. Example: tözen [˦tɵ˨ɵz˨ɛn] "fog, mist"
 * 4) anapestic: a three-mora word in which the last mora has a high pitch, and the rest have low pitches.
 * 5) amphibrachic: a three-mora word in which the first and last morae have a low pitch, and the middle one has a high pitch.

Zhizlik Tan
This dialect was created by Žirik (Fish). It is based on how an English speaker would pronounce the Old Orthography of Sajem Tan on sight. In that way, it is similar to Pleb Tan (see below).