Book for Newcomers

Xanönfë! (Hello!) This page is intended to list all the pages you should read in order to get a good overview of the Sajem Tan tribe and our culture. At the bottom will be links to other resources that will supplement your awareness of our culture, particularly regarding the language.

Basics
Sajem Tan is the name of a collaborative conlang started on November 29, 2015, on the CONLANG-L listserv. In other words, it is a language created by a group of people. There are roughly ten active members at any given time; members are referred to by "tribal names" that are often things found in nature. We meet primarily on our Discord server, although we have a presence on more sites on the web as well. Alongside the language, we have created a fictional universe called Sajem Dasnan. Sajem Dasnan contains the home of the Sajem Tan tribe, Sajem Din. The tribe has a culture and a calendar of its own. There are fictional creatures and plants that inhabit Sajem Dasnan. We have also begun to work on dialects and sister languages as well as completely unrelated languages.

Languages
The language is the core of the project, although several dialects, sister languages, and unrelated languages have been added to the project.

Sajem Tan
Sajem Tan is a member of the Tannic language family, which is to say, the languages descended from a language called Sajem Sülem ("Proto-Sajem Tan"). Sajem Sülem was begun after Sajem Tan was nearly complete and is not fully "reconstructed" yet. Sajem Tan is an agglutinative language, and it is completely regular (as of now). It is mostly complete; what it lacks is mostly vocabulary as well as materials in the language and educational materials. However, a course on this wiki and a reader off-site have been begun, and the language has a reference grammar although it is being updated. See also the Phrasebook, Stone's "Sajem Tan Utilities" (on Github) and Fog's "Sajem Tanthot Tolzenvmeh Kecycjafit" (on Neocities).

Nebulonic
The Nebulonic language is the language of the Nebulonic people. It is a language isolate, and it is agglutinative. It is not fully constructed yet, but it is diachronic, being evolved through many stages out of Proto-Nebulonic, also not fully constructed yet. See also: Primitive Nebulonic language, Old Nebulonic language.

Locations
The Sajem Tan project is set in a fictional world known as Sajem Dasnan. It contains an as yet unnamed planet, which contains many other places.

Sajem Din
Sajem Din is the fourth and current homeland of the Sajem Tan tribe. It is located on the New Continent. It is the location of many cities such as Ladëkmûc and Cicâ, as well as cultural regions such as the mountainous Nebulonia (the homeland of the Nebulonic people) and Gavmöt.

Northlands
The Northlands are the polar regions where the Snowmads live.

Xanz
Xanz of the Southern Isles is an archipelago south of Sajem Din.

Cultures

 * Gavmötmocâ - The people of Gavmöt.
 * Cold Bois
 * Tözenmocâ - The people of Tözendin.

Creatures

 * Tetan - A snail with a colored mohawk that sings to repair holes in the universe—in theory...
 * Tyţemek - A centipede with human hands and an angler fish antenna.
 * Cömek - Telepathic bonsai trees.
 * Fogwood - A tree that gets its water from fog in the air.

Individuals

 * Tribemembers
 * Vmëfëc Kižütdin - The Wisdomful Beehive
 * Cëmündin - The Wasphive

Literature

 * Category:Literature - A category of pages about Sajem Tan and broader Sajem Dasnan literature.
 * Mythology - The mythology of the Sajem Tan tribe.
 * Fmyvûkţnuvmê Znenan - The beginning of the tribe.
 * Category:Myths - A category containing pages about each myth.
 * Žetammêt Dëgemnocâ - Sayings of the Wisdomful Beehive.
 * Fëtxetsut Lnagen - Shakespeare's rollicking comedy, known as Twelfth Night in English, was originally written in Sajem Tan.
 * Sajem Tan poetry
 * Sajem Tan Reference Grammar - A book that outlines the grammar of Sajem Tan.