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 diverged from Sajem Tan during the late Sajem Sülem-early Sajem Tan stage of the language.

Vowels
Tözen Tan is one of the non-fronting Tannic languages, in which Sajem Sülem's /u/, /o/, and /ɔ/ did not front to /y/, /ø/, and /œ/, respectively (according to the theory whereby this is how Sajem Tan's front rounded vowels came to be). As such, Tözen Tan lacks front rounded vowels except as a result of vowel harmony in particles.

Tözen Tan has vowel harmony based on roundedness, similar to Ţeţat Tan. The unrounded/rounded pairs are as follows. Sometimes the vowel's actual pronunciation is not that of the symbol used to represent it phonemically. For those vowels, a more accurate pronunciation is indicated in square brackets.

There is no vowel harmony within roots. Vowels in particles harmonize with what is known as the fithnomsoksojun "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 vowel in the final one is the "lighthouse vowel": dok means "spear", and its lighthouse vowel is /o/. However, when -met "full of, plenty of" is added, the lighthouse vowel is /e/. Inflectional suffixes and pronouns change their vowels in harmony with the lighthouse vowel: Dokmetym dy, "It is full of spears."

Gender
Nouns in Tözen Tan have genders that are marked on the noun. The genders are animate and inanimate (a merger of Sajem Sülem's vegetal and inanimate). The markers descend from the third person personal pronouns: as in Sajem Tan, they could be used as demonstratives in Sajem Sülem (example: *divom "thunder", *divomzo "that thunder"). In the early stages of Tözen Tan, they came to be used as definite articles and then they simply fused to the nouns to mark gender.

Therefore, the gender of a noun can be determined by its ending as well as its meaning. The ending is a result of the final consonant of the root and the first consonant of the article. The following list lists the gender endings by the end of the Sajem Sülem root.

These are the animate endings: And these are the inanimate endings:
 * SS */k/: /ːθ/ (example: zhilíth < *ʒiɮik-ɮo)
 * SS */t/: /ːθ/ (example: vithíth < *viθit-ɮo)
 * SS */ts/: /ːs/ (example: thusús < *ɬusuts-ɮo)
 * SS */n/: /ːl/ (example: kemól < *kɛmon-ɮo)
 * SS */m/: /ːl/ (example: thefnól < *θɛfnom-ɮo)
 * SS */k/: /ːs/ (example: gamús < *gɑmuk-zɛ)
 * SS */t/: /ːs/ (example: thethás < *θɛθɑt-zo)
 * SS */ts/: /ːs/ (example: sís < *tsits-zo)
 * SS */n/: /ːz/ (example: tozéz < *tozɛn-zo)
 * SS */m/: /ːz/ (example: divóz < *divom-zo)

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).