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{{infobox|pronounce={{IPA|['ʃi.je]}}|tu=EJL Universe, Late 22nd century CE|species=Indigenous Martian Humanoid|in=Mars|no=20,000,000 (est.)|script=syllabic|tree= Tide:* Tiye
=Siye=
:* [[Siye]]|morph=Agglutinating/Polysynthetic|ms=Split Ergative|wo=SOV|creator=Linguarum Magister|created=2012}}
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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Pronounced: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| ['ʃi.je]
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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Timeline and Universe: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| Earth Jungle Lord (EJL)
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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Species: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| Martian Hominin
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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Spoken: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| Mars
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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Total speakers: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| 19,000,000
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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Writing system: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| Native Syllabary
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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Genealogy: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| Thide <br>&nbsp; Tide <br>&nbsp; Tiye <br>&nbsp; [[Siye]]  
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!colspan=2 style="background: #dfdfdf; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0;"| Typology:
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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Morphology: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| Agglutinative
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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Morphosyntax: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| Split Ergative
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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Word order: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| SOV
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|style="border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 30%"| Creator: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; border-bottom: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| Linguarum Magister
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|style="width: 30%"| Created: ||style="border-left: 1pt solid #c0c0c0; width: 70%"| 2012
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{{WIP}}
=Description=


=Phonology and Orthography=
Siye is one of the two major languages, along with Ulok, of the Martian Equator, It is spoken by nineteen million people in the Valley of the River. The Guild of Scholars estimates that there are twenty million speakers, but the Terrestrial conservative estimate separates one million speakers whose inclusion within the Simakim is more political than linguistic.


==Phonology==
'Simakim', a key concept in linguistic and political thought, means 'area where the Siye language is spoken.' The Simakim is defined by the presence of a Siye-speaker with immovable property. If the Simayam (Siye speaker) is bilingual, the Siye portion is dominant under Siye law.


/m/ [m], > [ⁿ]/V_#, V_C
The Valley is a federation of city states and autonomous regions whose only unifying government is the Guild of Scholars, a body of grammarians based in the Central Province which regulates the grammar of Siye and therefore the validity of contracts. The Valley is divided into provinces, but unless there is need for military action, provinces are more geographical descriptions than political unities. The only permanent militia is maintained by the Far Western Province, which borders the Ulok-speaking Kingdom of Nesa.


/n/ [n]
=Phonology and Orthography=


/p/ [p], > [pʰ]/#_, [f]/_u, [ç]/_i
==Orthography==


/t/ [t], > [tʰ]/#_, [ʦ]/_u, [ʦʰ]/#_u
[[Siye Orthography]]


/k/ [k] > [kʰ]/#_, [x]/_u, [ʧ]/_i, [ʧʰ]/#_i
==Phonology==


/s/ [s] > [ʃ]/_i
[[Siye Phonology]]


/w/ [v]
==Dialects==


/y/ [j]
[[Siye Dialects]]


/l/ [l]
=Morphology and Syntax=


/h/ [placeholder after /m/ [ⁿ]]
==Nominal Morphology==


/i/ [i]
[[Siye Nominal Morphology]]


/im/ [ɪⁿ]
==Verbal Morphology==


/e/ [e]
[[Siye Verbal Morphology]]


/em/ [ɛⁿ]
==Syntax==


/a/ [a]
[[Siye Syntax]]


/am/ [aⁿ]
=Texts and Vocabulary=


/o/ [o]
==Texts==


/om/ [ɔⁿ]
[[Siye Texts]]
 
/u/ [u]
 
/um/ [ʊⁿ]
 
==Vowel Dominance==
 
Siye Vowel Dominance indicates which vowel will dominate in a vowel-vowel sequence. The Vowel Dominance hierarchy is listed below:
/u/ > /o/ > /a/ > /e/ > /i/
 
The 3rd person animate subject prefix of the verb is -i- and therefore vanishes most of the time after the object prefixes. It is, however, present in /yi-/ and /umhi-/ and /tumhi-/.
 
==Stress Placement==
 
A Siye noun receives a primary accent on the first syllable. Thus /laye silime/ receives primary accents on /la/ and /si/. A Siye verb receives a primary accent on the first syllable of the verb root.  Thus /pelekopuyamma/ receives a primary accent on /ko/. If the root is monosyllabic, the number suffix does not receive stress, If the root is polysyllabic, the number suffix does receive stress. From the number suffix onward, secondary accents occur every other syllable, with the caveat that only the first syllable of a suffix can receive an accent.
 
==Isoglosses==
 
The Valley in which Siye is spoken stretches halfway across the Martian equator, so there are variations in speech along its length. The primary isogloss is the boundary line between nouns that use the Nominative and Accusative and those that use the Ergative and Absolutive. In Standard Siye, the dialect of the City in the Central Province and the variety on which this article is based, only pronouns and personal names can use Nominative and Accusative forms. As one travels east the range of the Nominative decreases; as one travels west towards the Mountain, the opposite occurs. Thus, all varieties of SIye use /le, la/ for the first person pronouns. All but the Far Eastern Province and the Lake use /pe, sa/ for the second person pronoun. The Mid-Eastern Province and points west place all pronouns, regardless of number, in the Nominative category. Standard Siye, from the Central Province, adds personal names to the Nominative category. The Near Western Province requires that nouns denoting humans must be in the Nominative category, reducing the number of complex cases in the spoken version of the western dialects. The Mid-Western Province treats all animate nouns as Nominative, and the Far Western Province is full nominative under the "contamination" of Ulok.
 
==Diachrony: From Tiye to Siye==


Tiye, the immediate ancestor of Siye, did not differ greatly from Siye. Tiye possessed two extra phonemes: /d/, which only appeared in initial position in native words) and /b/, which only appeared before /a/ in native words. /b/ and /d/ in other positions, and any instances of /r/, are indications of the extensive borrowing that the language endured before its current dominance. The Tiye female derogatives /yeda/, /deda/, and /tera/ are all borrowings, the sisters of the Tiye word /daye/, when the dying planet Kiba had more languages. The name of the language, Tiye, shows that /t/ was allowed before /i/. The following changes occurred in the transition from Tiye to Siye:
==Thematic Vocabulary==


/d/ [d] > /l/ [l]
[[Siye Thematic Vocabulary]]


/t/ [t] > /s/ [s]/_i
=Guild of Scholars Docket=


/b/ [b] /w/ [w] > /w/ [ʋ]
[[Guild of Scholars Docket]]
 
/r/ [r] > /l/ [l]
 
Thus the Tiye words /daye/ and /date/ and the loanwords /yeda/, /deda/, and /tera/ became the native Siye terms /laye/, /late/, /yela/, /lela/, and /tela/. Although Tiye was (relatively briefly) a written language, the Guild of Scholars was founded centuries later, when Siye had penetrated to the Central Province; by that time the Tiye loanwords had become native Siye words.
 
[[Nominal Morphology]]
 
[[Verbal Morphology]]
 
[[Syntax]]
 
[[Siye Texts]]


[[Category: Conlangs]]
[[Category: Conlangs]]
[[Category:A priori conlangs]]
[[Category:A priori conlangs]]

Latest revision as of 15:58, 12 April 2018

Siye

Siye
Pronounced: ['ʃi.je]
Timeline and Universe: Earth Jungle Lord (EJL)
Species: Martian Hominin
Spoken: Mars
Total speakers: 19,000,000
Writing system: Native Syllabary
Genealogy: Thide
  Tide
  Tiye
  Siye
Typology:
Morphology: Agglutinative
Morphosyntax: Split Ergative
Word order: SOV
Credits
Creator: Linguarum Magister
Created: 2012

Description

Siye is one of the two major languages, along with Ulok, of the Martian Equator, It is spoken by nineteen million people in the Valley of the River. The Guild of Scholars estimates that there are twenty million speakers, but the Terrestrial conservative estimate separates one million speakers whose inclusion within the Simakim is more political than linguistic.

'Simakim', a key concept in linguistic and political thought, means 'area where the Siye language is spoken.' The Simakim is defined by the presence of a Siye-speaker with immovable property. If the Simayam (Siye speaker) is bilingual, the Siye portion is dominant under Siye law.

The Valley is a federation of city states and autonomous regions whose only unifying government is the Guild of Scholars, a body of grammarians based in the Central Province which regulates the grammar of Siye and therefore the validity of contracts. The Valley is divided into provinces, but unless there is need for military action, provinces are more geographical descriptions than political unities. The only permanent militia is maintained by the Far Western Province, which borders the Ulok-speaking Kingdom of Nesa.

Phonology and Orthography

Orthography

Siye Orthography

Phonology

Siye Phonology

Dialects

Siye Dialects

Morphology and Syntax

Nominal Morphology

Siye Nominal Morphology

Verbal Morphology

Siye Verbal Morphology

Syntax

Siye Syntax

Texts and Vocabulary

Texts

Siye Texts

Thematic Vocabulary

Siye Thematic Vocabulary

Guild of Scholars Docket

Guild of Scholars Docket

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