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), spoken by the Foglodytes. It is a matter of debate whether or not it is a dialect or a sister language. It diverged from Sajem Tan during the late Sajem Sülem-early Sajem Tan stage of the language.

Vowels
Tözen Tan has vowel harmony based on roundedness, similar to Ţeţat Tan. The unrounded/rounded pairs are a sfollows.

Vowels harmonize with what is known as the fythnömsöksöjyn "lighthouse vowel". This is the vowel that was stressed in Old Tözen Tan. It is usually the final vowel of the word in Modern Tözen Tan, even though Tözen Tan now has penultimate stress. When derivational suffixes are added, the final one contains the "lighthouse vowel": dok means "spear", but, when -met "full of, plenty of" is added, the word is dökmet "plenty of spears". Inflectional suffixes and pronouns change their vowels in harmony with the lighthouse vowel: Dökmetym dy, "It is full of spears."

The vowel system displays the effects of vowel affection as found in Sajem Sülem. For example, the Sajem Tan word gažyn "green" derives from the Sajem Sülem word *gâžuni̯. Both vowels display i-affection. Likewise, in Tözen Tan, the corresponding word is gozhyn. The ‹y› in the second syllable arose from i-affection of the /u/.

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).