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 and  that inhabit Sajem Dasnan. We have also begun to work on dialects and sister languages as well as.

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). to do: add nebulonic, etc. then finish this page

Locations

 * Sajem Dasnan - The universe in which the fictional side of Sajem Tan occurs.
 * Internet Land - The continent in which the major history of Sajem Tan occurred.
 * Instant Messenger Kingdoms - A group of lands within Internet Land; contains Listservia, Skype, and Discord among others.
 * Tycelit Din - Literally means "Home of what affects you in a bad way." Yeah.
 * Sajem Din - The current homeland of the Sajem Tan tribe within Sajem Dasnan.
 * Dûdengyvnamţnëk - The pasta kitchen.
 * Gavmöt - The current homeland of Cloud.
 * Ţefamdin Snijat - The mountain in which Stone lives.
 * Ladëkmûc - A city in central Sajem Din.
 * Nebulonia - The current homeland of Fog and the Nebulones.
 * Discord - The current homeland of the Sajem Tan tribe within the real world.
 * Xanz of the Southern Isles - An archipelago in the ocean south of Sajem Din, the homeland of Fish.
 * Mižimenak - The mountainous taiga region of the northeast of the New Continent.
 * Chelyras - A coastal region along the south of the Old Continent.
 * Skype - An Instant Messenger Kingdom in which the Sajem Tan tribe lived in two provinces before Discord.
 * Listservia - A large city within the Instant Messenger Kingdoms, where the tribe started.
 * Northlands - Home of the Cold Bois.

Cultures

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

Languages

 * Sajem Tan
 * Tannic languages - The language family to which Sajem Tan belongs.
 * Sajem Sülem - "Proto-Sajem Tan", the language from which the Tannic languages are descended.
 * Dialects - Dialects and sister languages of Sajem Tan.
 * Gavmöt languages - A language family containing languages spoken in Gavmöt.
 * Xanzite language - The language of Xanz, which provided Sajem Tan with many loanwords.
 * Foglodyte language - The language spoken by the Foglodytes.
 * Cold boi tan - The language of the Cold bois.

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

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

Literature

 * Category:Ţekrücnem - 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:Znenanâ - 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.