Tanfun

Tanfun (English: /ˈtæn.fun/; xen dat tan) is a constructed language based on Sajem Tan. It is a language designed for communication, and it contains a vocabulary confined to just 90 words, much inspired by Toki Pona.

History
The project was started by Ocean on April 8, 2019. He intended to create a version of Sajem Tan that could easily be learned.

Early in the language's planning stage, Bird suggested that the language should be comprised of 360 words to represent the circumference of a circle and since it is a factor of six. Wind then suggested that there should be 90 words, which is the system that is used today.

A reform to the language was proposed on April 17, 2019 and was implemented a day later. The reform removed any duplicate words, and it changed a to i if the original Sajem Tan letter was y.

Words were borrowed from Sajem Tan using a three-step process developed by Ocean:


 * 1) Decide whether the word is common enough to be used by speakers at all.
 * 2) Shorten the word to seven letters if it exceeds that length.
 * 3) Apply these sound changes to the word:
 * {|class="wikitable" style="text-align: center;"

!Sajem Tan !Tanfun
 * y
 * û
 * ê
 * ö
 * ë
 * š
 * ž
 * c
 * j
 * â
 * ţ
 * ü
 * i
 * a
 * e
 * e
 * e
 * s
 * z
 * s
 * y
 * a
 * s
 * u
 * }

Etymology
The name of this language comes from the Sajem Tan word tanfun, which is comprised of tan ("language") and -fun ("small"). The name was coined by Wind on April 8, 2019. Ocean chose the working title Sajem Tan Lite before the official name was determined.

Flag


The Tanfun flag has the same dimensions and color palette as the Sajem Tan flag. The yellow concave pentagon to the right represents a speaking mouth, and the nine-pointed star represents Tanfun, the miniature version of the Sajem Tan language.

The flag was designed by Ocean on May 18, 2019.

Description

 * The width of the flag is 1.5 times its height.
 * The width of the yellow concave pentagon is half that of the width of the flag.
 * The width of the nine-pointed star is 7/18ths that of the width of the flag.

Stress
Stress is placed on the first syllable of a word.

Orthography
The Tanfun alphabet has 19 letters.

The first letter of all words that are not on the official Tanfun word list are capitalized.

Phrases

 * Xanenfe: Hello, goodbye
 * Masim znek: Good day
 * Masim do?: How are you?
 * Do manfe de: Thank you
 * Lekzis: You're welcome
 * Sut xen de: I don't know

Pronouns
Pronouns are made plural by duplicating them. The 3rd person pronoun du can also be used as a determiner.

Grammar
Sentences in Tanfun are OVS, the same as in Sajem Tan. Examples are shown below.




 * Vet||fasas||de.
 * plant||sense||I
 * colspan=3|"I see a plant." (literally: "I sense a plant.")
 * }
 * colspan=3|"I see a plant." (literally: "I sense a plant.")
 * }

In Sajem Tan: Vöt fûšûcšo dê.




 * Ternen||kigik||do.
 * water||consume||you
 * colspan=3|"You drink water." (literally: "You consume water.")
 * }
 * colspan=3|"You drink water." (literally: "You consume water.")
 * }

In Sajem Tan: Törnën kygykšo do.




 * Sut||xen||de.
 * know||negative||I
 * colspan=3|"I don't know."
 * }
 * colspan=3|"I don't know."
 * }




 * Seyem||tan||de.
 * color||talk||I
 * colspan=3|"I talk about colors."
 * }
 * colspan=3|"I talk about colors."
 * }

The word yit ("place") can be used as a preposition.




 * Kesis||yit||gigik||kigik||fenat.
 * Internet||place||food||consume||animal
 * colspan=5|"The animal ate the food on the Internet."
 * }
 * colspan=5|"The animal ate the food on the Internet."
 * }

The word gen is not a preposition, but it can be used in place of one.




 * Tekezis||gen||tan||fmivak||de.
 * device||use||language||make||I
 * colspan=5|"I make a language with a computer." (literally: "I make a language using a computer.")
 * }
 * colspan=5|"I make a language with a computer." (literally: "I make a language using a computer.")
 * }

Adjectives are placed before the nouns they modify.




 * lnam||fenat
 * gray||animal
 * colspan=2|"a gray animal"
 * }
 * colspan=2|"a gray animal"
 * }

In Sajem Tan: lnûm fenat

Questions
Questions are often formed by placing ku after the word(s) in question, similar to how it works in Sajem Tan.




 * Vet||ku||kigik||fenat||ku?
 * plant||what||consume||animal||what
 * colspan=5|"Which animal ate which plant?"
 * }
 * colspan=5|"Which animal ate which plant?"
 * }

In Sajem Tan: Vötku kygykfê fenatku?




 * Du||ku||tan||do?
 * thing||what||say||you
 * colspan=4|"What did you say?"
 * }
 * colspan=4|"What did you say?"
 * }

In Sajem Tan: Duku tanfê do?




 * Masim||semek||ku?
 * good||idea||what
 * colspan=3|"Which idea is good?"
 * }
 * colspan=3|"Which idea is good?"
 * }

Time



 * Gigik||kigik||de||yot.
 * food||consume||I||future
 * colspan=4|"I will eat food."
 * }
 * colspan=4|"I will eat food."
 * }

In Sajem Tan: Gygik kygykšo dêjot.

Comparative



 * Vet||fenat||simat||dat.
 * plant||animal||same||big
 * colspan=4|"The animal is as big as the plant."
 * }
 * colspan=4|"The animal is as big as the plant."
 * }

In Sajem Tan: Vötvê fenat cimût dûtum.

Pangram
A pangram was created by Ocean on May 22, 2019. It contains 52 letters, not including the spaces or punctuation.


 * Gazin xitmem yit dat seyin xok lnam tanrus fmivak snitin fenat.
 * "The orange animal makes a gray sentence or a large sound in the green world."

Word list

 * {|class="wikitable"

!Tanfun !Origin !English !Tanfun !Origin !English
 * dak
 * dak
 * to learn
 * safis
 * safic
 * to come, to go
 * dat
 * dût
 * big, tall
 * selit
 * celit
 * person, being
 * de
 * dê
 * I, me
 * semek
 * ţemek*
 * idea
 * degem
 * dëgem
 * to decide, to choose
 * sen
 * šen
 * six
 * des
 * dec
 * one
 * sesek
 * söcek
 * long, length
 * do
 * do
 * you
 * sesik
 * cesik
 * word
 * du
 * du
 * he, she, it, this, that, something
 * seyin
 * cejyn
 * sound
 * fam
 * fam
 * two
 * seyem
 * söjem
 * color
 * fasas
 * fûšûc
 * to sense, to appear, to look
 * sik
 * šik
 * can
 * femekas
 * femekâso
 * to think
 * simat
 * cimût
 * same, equal, to equal
 * fenat
 * fenat
 * animal
 * sisum
 * cicüm
 * to destroy, to die
 * fis
 * fic
 * now, today
 * sit
 * sit
 * to start
 * fmivak
 * fmyvûk
 * to create, to build, to be born
 * sizat
 * šizût
 * to remember
 * gafun
 * gafün
 * blue
 * snam
 * snâm
 * down
 * gigik
 * gygik
 * food
 * snem
 * snêm
 * up
 * gan
 * gûn
 * nine
 * snimsoy
 * snymsöjem
 * white, light
 * gatin
 * gatin
 * yellow
 * snen
 * šnön
 * maybe, I don't know
 * gazin
 * gažyn
 * green
 * snifun
 * snifün
 * red
 * gen
 * gön
 * to try, to do, to use
 * snitin
 * snitin
 * orange
 * get
 * göt
 * to end, to stop, the end
 * sno
 * sno
 * time
 * gevmuk
 * gevmüksöjem
 * black, dark
 * snum
 * snum
 * top
 * kigik
 * kygyk
 * to consume
 * sut
 * cüt
 * to understand, to know
 * kas
 * kûc
 * letter
 * tamuk
 * original word
 * right (direction)
 * kasfis
 * kacfic
 * past, before
 * tan
 * tan
 * language, to talk
 * kaxik
 * kaxik
 * vehicle, car
 * tanrus
 * tanrüc
 * sentence
 * ke
 * kê
 * and
 * tekezis
 * tekezisët
 * device, computer, phone
 * kesis
 * kecyc
 * the Internet
 * ternen
 * törnën
 * water, liquid
 * ku
 * ku
 * what, who, which (interrogative suffix)
 * tesim
 * töţim
 * to want, to need, must
 * kuk
 * kük
 * eight
 * tim
 * tim
 * zero
 * las
 * lac
 * to walk, to run, to move
 * tisnim
 * tišnim
 * tired
 * lat
 * lût
 * four
 * vakut
 * vaküt
 * to teach
 * lekzis
 * lek zyšenfê
 * you're welcome
 * vet
 * vöt
 * plant
 * lik
 * lik
 * yes, okay
 * vun
 * original word
 * here, there
 * lnagen
 * lnagen
 * night
 * vus
 * vüc
 * three
 * lnam
 * lnûm
 * gray
 * xamku
 * xûmku
 * why, how
 * man
 * mân
 * when
 * xanenfe
 * xanönfê
 * hello, goodbye
 * manfe
 * manfê
 * to thank, thank you
 * xit
 * xyt
 * all, every
 * masim
 * mûšim
 * good
 * xitmem
 * xytmömdin
 * world
 * men
 * mên
 * any
 * xen
 * xen
 * no, not, never
 * nifun
 * nyfün
 * purple
 * xok
 * xok
 * or
 * namuk
 * original word
 * left
 * xum
 * xüm
 * some, many, much
 * naset
 * našöt
 * to like, to love, to enjoy
 * yit
 * jyt
 * place, in, to, at
 * navnis
 * navnyc
 * on, online
 * yot
 * jot
 * future, after
 * nun
 * nün
 * friend
 * zat
 * žat
 * seven
 * rik
 * rik
 * five
 * znek
 * znök
 * day
 * }
 * xen
 * no, not, never
 * nifun
 * nyfün
 * purple
 * xok
 * xok
 * or
 * namuk
 * original word
 * left
 * xum
 * xüm
 * some, many, much
 * naset
 * našöt
 * to like, to love, to enjoy
 * yit
 * jyt
 * place, in, to, at
 * navnis
 * navnyc
 * on, online
 * yot
 * jot
 * future, after
 * nun
 * nün
 * friend
 * zat
 * žat
 * seven
 * rik
 * rik
 * five
 * znek
 * znök
 * day
 * }
 * rik
 * five
 * znek
 * znök
 * day
 * }

* Removed tyc ("bad") from tycţemek ("bad idea"), archaic form of tyţemek.