Kandaxangg

Background

Kandaxangg is the language of the Nggang, the human inhabitants of the Nangah-Riki, the Northern Archipelago, who dwell in villages upon the shores while the fey Nggang-Angik live within the mirror-world of the glaciers. Tangg-Nggang culture is paleolithic, animist, and illiterate. Then Nggang hunt seals and sometimes birds. Despite this nomadic lifestyle, Tangg-Nggang culture is highly unified in worship and ethics, valuing cooperation, honesty, and piety towards the triple goddess Handangangg, Iring, and Xanggah. Tangg-Nggang men have a cult Hindang-Handung (or Hindang-Handangu), Grandfather Sun, who stays long months in the sky in the summer months, but leaves on a hunting expedition in the winter. Hindang-Nandang, Grandmother Moon, presides over the cult of women and the left side of the tent.

Nouns

Kandaxangg lacks grammatical gender, although some nouns have a natural gender.

nanggingg man

nirangg woman

Numbers

Kandaxangg numbers are quinary. After the initial binary system (the Nggang have no concept of zero), the system operates with a central focus number flanked by two lesser subtractive numbers and two greater additive numbers. It is rare that a Nggang needs to count discrete objects higher than fifteen (15).

1 ndang

2 kand

3 kand kang randax

4 ndang kang randax

5 randax

6 randax tandax ndang

7 randax tandax kand

8 kand kang nandik

9 ndang kang nandik

10 nandik

11 nandik tandax ndang

12 nandik tandax kand

13 kand kang arangg

14 ndang kang arangg

15 arangg

16 arangg tandax ndang

17 arangg tandax kand