Fmefmezam Tan

Fmefmezam Tan, also referred to by the English translation Bazaar Honey, is a derivative of Sajem Tan. The language is for communication while standard Sajem Tan remains for literary purposes. The relationship between Fmefmezam Tan and Sajem Tan is comparable to that of the relationship between Hindi and Sanskrit.

Sound changes
These are the sound changes that have taken place from Sajem Tan to Fmefmezam Tan. Any Sajem Tan consonants not mentioned below have not changed in Fmefmezam Tan.

Vowels:
 * /i y/ > /i/
 * /œ ø/ > /ɵ ~ ʉ/
 * /o ʌ/ > /o/
 * /ɛ e/ > /e/
 * /æ ɑ/ > /a/
 * /u ʊ/ > /u/

Consonants:
 * /x/ > /h ~ x/
 * /ɬ/ > /θ/
 * /ɮ/ > /l/
 * /t͡s/ > /s/

Orthography
The Fmefmezam Tan alphabet has 22 letters. The three official alphabets are Latin, Greek, and a modified Fogscript.

Grammar
The word order is OVS, the same as in Sajem Tan. Fmefmezam Tan does not contain the Sajem Tan particles con and don. Root words in Sajem Tan that are more than nine phonemes long are shortened. Fmefmezam Tan has three aspects: perfective (-fe), imperfective (-sho) and the debated gnomic (-um). It was proposed that the gnomic tense would be merged with the imperfective tense and that (-um) would be reserved for turning predicate nouns and adjectives into stative verbs.

Pronouns
Fmefmezam Tan has six pronouns. They are all derived from the set of neutral pronuns found in Sajem Tan.

Vocabulary
Fmefmezam Tan has a core of 900 root words which can be compounded to expand the vocabulary. 900 was proposed because it is the product of 36, a senarily round number, and 25, a decimally round number.

Conversion from Sajem Tan
Fmefmezam Tan vocabulary is borrowed from Sajem Tan by converting each Sajem Tan phoneme or letter into its Fmefmezam Tan equivalent.

Phrases

 * Xanynfe - Χανυνφε - Hello
 * Xyn - Χυν - Hi
 * Ximus - Χιμους - Goodbye
 * Xim - Χιμ - Bye