Taðýric

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Taðýric is my ongoing effort - one that's been scrapped and reworked a good number of times - to create the most beautiful language possible to my sensibilities. I have developed a keyboard layout for typing the characters used in the written language.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Dental Alveodental Palatal Velar Uvular
Plosive p ‹p› t̪ ‹t› k ‹c›
Nasal m ‹m› n̪ ‹n›
Fricative θ ‹ð› s̪ ‹s› (x) ‹c›
Lateral l̪ ‹l›
Approximant ʋ ‹v› (r) ‹r› j ‹j› ʁ ‹r›*
  • /r/ has many possible realizations, including a trill (in a complex onset or geminate), rhoticization of the previous vowel (in coda position), or a uvular approximant (in onset position).

Vowels

Front Back
Unround Round
High i y u
Mid e ø ɔ
Low a
  • All vowels can be lax and tense (RTR and non-RTR) apart from /ɔ/ (written ‹o›). Long vowels are realized as the vowel with a schwa offglide (ie /iː/ > [iə]). Short vowels are lax versions of long vowels (RTR).
  • Length and tenseness is represented by an acute accent over the vowel.

Diphthongs

Diphthongs are frequently formed in agglutination. The language has a large and relatively unrestricted vowel inventory for a highly agglutinating language, and diphthong formation is complex:

Second Vowel
First Vowel i y u e ø o a
i í í ju je io ia
y ý ý ju je io ia
u vi vy ú ve vo va
e é é é é é eo ea
ø øji øji ǿ ǿ ǿ ǿ ǿ
o oji oji ó ó ó ó oa
a aji aji á á á á á

These patterns can be explained through optimality: Disyllabic falling vowel progression ((V)o, (V)a) > Gliding of initial vowel > Syllabification of high vowel (aji, oji, øji) > Long vowel (by initial vowel)

Script

Taðýric uses an abugida.

  • A combined vowel-killer/reversal diacritic exists, written below the glyph, typed with the ] character. In multisyllabic words, it is placed under a syllable with nuclear ‹a› to indicate a consonantal coda, rendering the vowel silent. In monosyllabic words, it can be used to indicate that the consonant is pronounced after the nuclear vowel rather than before.

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Phonotactics

Possible consonantal onset structures include:

  • [null]
  • any consonant
  • any non-approximant followed by an approximant

Possible coda structures include:

  • [null]
  • a fricative, nasal, or lateral
  • a rhotic (Where /r/ is realized as a rhoticization of the previous vowel), possibly preceding any of the above.


  • ‹t› > ‹ts› ([ts]) before accented high vowels.
  • /s/ > [ɕ] before accented high vowels, and with /j/.
  • /k/ is lenited to a fricative [x] intervocalically and in coda position.
  • a high vowel between two other vowels will strengthen to an approximant (‹j› or ‹v›).
  • Nasals in contact with another nasal or plosive regressively assimilate place.
  • Fricatives in contact assimilate regressively.
  • Progressive rounding assimilation between front vowels.

Morphology

Nouns

Possessor STEM Plural Possessor Case/Number

Nouns are declined according to two numbers (singular and plural), two genders (animate and inanimate), five or seven cases (a total of eight), and three possessive persons (as well as singular and plural for each possessor).

Many adjectives may also be attached to nouns in a clitic form, as a prefix closest to the root.

Animate Paradigm

Singular Plural
Nominative ja
Accusative i is
Possessive (s) sis
Dative (a)ti (a)tor
Associative (a)li (a)lor
Comparative (a)pi (a)pear
Vocative* ðau ðau
  • The vocative is a postposed particle.

Inanimate Paradigm

Singular Plural
Nominative a
Accusative us
Dative (a)ðu ðar
Instrumental (a)mu mar
Locative (a)su svar
Ablative (a)sa sjar
Comparative (a)li lar

Person

Singular possessive markers are prefixes. Plural markers are suffixes paired with the appropriate singular marker.

Singular Plural
1 se i
2 ce i
21 a i
3.an ðe u
3>3.an ðai u

Inanimate nouns cannot take direct possession. Instead, root compounding is used (ie "the tree's branch" = tíðorcrac)

Pronouns

Pronouns are formed by using the nominal root sto and attaching nominal person affixes and case affixes to it accordingly. (Codas are dropped for prefixes.) The root pronoun for 3.in is to.

Verbs

Person Negative Mood Intensifier STEM Plural Subject Aspect Tense Object

Verbs take different roots depending on the animacy of their object. Crucially, this means that verbs must be used appropriately for their paradigm: for instance, the root for throwing an inanimate noun such as a ball is cílo, while throwing an animate object (whether actually alive or not) is arové.

Verbs are obligatorily inflected for person and number. Transitive verbs are obligatorily inflected for the person and number of the object (in a single suffix). They may also be inflected for tense, aspect, and voice as individual agglutinations.

The verb to be does not exist; a noun may be derived as a verb with the suffix v immediately following the stem.  In a similar fashion, to possess takes the form of the suffix as on the object.

Person

Subject prefix is always furthest from the root. The plural suffix is paired with the singular prefix, before the object suffix.

Singular Plural
1 se i
2 ce i
21 a i
3.an ðe u
4/3.in te u

Object

Object suffixes are always furthest from the root.

Singular Plural
1 is isir
2 ic icir
21 ar
3.an iðer
3.in im imer

The object suffix placement is also that of the passive suffix -toc. The reflexive is formed with a further suffix -jis or -ris for plurals, with the appropriate object.

Tense

Past en
Nonpast+singular subject+intransitive+indicative a

Aspect

Inchoative ro
Cessative pi
Habitual ja

Mood

Desiderative vél
Non-Affirmative ːse

Other Affixes

Intensifier loc
Negative mar

Lexicon

Demonstratives

Demonstratives precede the noun.

an.s an.pl in.s in.pl
Proximal oma omes omar omsis
Mesodistal ana anes anar ansis
Distal amov amoves amor amoris

Numbers

Base-12 system. Numbers are prefixes or particles (cardinal). Ordinals are prefixes immediately before the stem.

Arabic Clitic Cardinal
1 néto netósa
2 níðo niðóca
3 jóci jocís
4 jíso jisós
5 síðo siðóm
6 sor sorom
7 rupís rupísi
8 lomán lománi
9 vári varíð
10 vis visíð
11 névo nevoi
12 súvo suvoi
13 súvo néto súvo netósa
24 nysu nysuvi
36 jocsu jocsuvoi
48 jysu jysuvoi
60 sýsu sýsuvoi
72 sorsuvo sorsuvoi
84 rusu rusuvoi
96 lomsu lomsuvoi
108 vásu vasuvoi
120 výsu vysuvoi
132 nǿsu nǿsuvoi
144 hánja hánjai

Open Class

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The Tower of Babel (Genesis 11: 1-9)

  1. Now the whole earth had one language and the same words.
    Ómðíssu, vajpórrá ðonnétotaðýreten ic taðýrað tossénraven.
  2. And as people migrated from the east, they found a plain in the land of Shinar and settled there.
    Ic ðíssu, mánjeð ðosrópaven súnisjar, tinólloven lácnju Sinarmy ic tinessísjen amappélsu.
  3. And they said to one another, "Come, let us make bricks, and burn them thoroughly." And they had brick for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
    Ic ðyntaðýrjen: “Nammót! Sejǿrajoner copimínus, ic silǿcpóverjoner.” Ic tincopimíneten sucénaðar ic timpitumeneten mortarðar.
  4. Then they said, "Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens, and let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be dispersed over the face of the whole earth."
    Ic ðyntaðýrjen: “Nammót! Semonácjon ðáfolasu ic møcélju, ic niðuðar élisu, ic sejǿrajon acálu iníntor, el iporéðertoc pórranémðar.
  5. And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of man had built.
    Ic Omacámisðaje tinnammón ðáfolasu tinðíta ic møcélju son monácentoc ðenvojinvað tápisis.
  6. And the Lord said, "Behold, they are one people, and they have all one language, and this is only the beginning of what they will do. And nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible for them.
    Ic Omacámisðaje tintaðýren, "Aðíta, tinnétosecsau, ic tinnétotaðýrtó, ic tosusysíceva tinyðjǿru. Ic ðestóðor málina tinsonaslinému annoc tosmalicánðoa.
  7. Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that they may not understand one another's speech.
    Nammót! Sestaja amór appélða ic simusmúrjon ðistaðýrús, før tinocovacárjon.
  8. So the Lord dispersed them from there over the face of all the earth, and they left off building the city.
    Ic Omacámisðaje timporéðerenoðer amór appélsi vajpórraða, ic ðáfolasu tinmonácvempjon.
  9. Therefore its name was called Babel, because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth. And from there the Lord dispersed them over the face of all the earth.
    Før ómar, amór appélacála tosPapelven, før amór appélsu Omacámisðaje tinmusmúrjon vajpórrataðýru. Ic amór appélsi Omacámisðaje timporéðerenoðer vajpórraða.

Hávamál 93-95

93.

No man should ever ridicule
another’s love.
The lure of a beautiful woman often snares
the wise while leaving the fool.

94.
A man should not heap abuse
on another for something
that happens to many men.
Powerful love makes fools of heroes and sages.

95.
Only your own mind knows what is dearest
to your heart. You must counsel yourself.
There is no worse illness for a sage
than losing love for himself.

Rusu vári

Simarlócørolveloð mamánje ðimactaðýra
ántemanis ðisjárau.
Ðisjára cajljómin tetocinasíroð
Alvisi ic maralvisi tesacáloð.

Rusu vis
Silócørolveloð mánje ðimarmactaðýra
Ántemanita vør nétocic
telocúra aðmánitor.
Omacsjáraj tejǿroðer maralvisis alvisis ic omacmánis.

Rusu névo
Usy icitána tecývyson cícu tecoamosið
Cilovárða. Ciloðarniric.
Locmarcúcusumer alvista
Er ðicuðpajan sjárau cistota.

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