Tejnaxi

This is my conlang, Tejnaxi. Its core has been worked for almost six years, but a few months ago it went through a massive reboot. Tejnaxi es a proto-language of sorts, more conlangs will be developed using it as a base. All the stuff included here is provisional and may be redesigned in the future.

English name Native name
Spoken in:	none
Conworld:	none
Total speakers:	1/10
Genealogical classification:	(Family) (Branch) (Subbranch) (Language)
Basic word order:	VSO
Morphological type:	Agglutinant
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Split-S Active
Created by: Xroox
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Phonology

Consonants

Consonants
	Bilabial		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Glottal
Nasal		m		n
Plosive	p	b	t	d			k	g	ʔ
Fricative			s						h
Lateral Approximant				l
Tap				ɾ
Approximants		w				j		(w)

Allophony

• r is produced as a retroflex approximant when in coda
• l is velarized in the same environment except when is followed by a coronal.
• Voiceless plosives are unreleased un coda position.
• Nasals are lenited to w and r in intervocalic enviroments, if the syllable is unstressed.

Vowels

Vowels
	Front		Central		Back
High		i iː				u uː
Mid		e eː				o oː
Low				a aː

Allophony

• Long e and o are actually produced as ej and ow in all contexts.
• Short a is produced as schwa in unstressed enviroments.
• Short e and o are raised to i and u when unstressed.

Phonotactics

Long vowels can only occur in open syllables. Any consonant can be syllable onset, which is obligatory. An epenthetic glottal stop can be inserted. The biggest syllable structure alloved in Tejnaxi is CVRK, where R stands for aproximants, liquids, the glottal fricative and nasals. K stands for obstruents (plosives and s).

Stress

Syllables are divided in light and heavy. Light syllables have one mora, heavy syllables two or three. Thus, light syllables can be only CV. Stress goes, among nouns, on the first heavy syllable of the word. If every syllable is light, stress goes to the first one. Some nouns can have morphological stress marking plurality. Verbs have also morphological stress.

Ortography

The alphabet used corresponds with the IPA symbols, the sole exception being the glottal stop, which is <x>. long vowels are marked with ¨, and ^ if stressed.

Morphology

Verbs

Person agreement

Verbs agree with the subject of intransitive clauses, and with both subject and object of transitive ones. Intransitive agreement is conditioned by the degree of control by the subject. More control triggers agent agreement, otherwise patient agreement is employed. Some verbs have a fixed preference for one of the two sets of adpositions, but some others can have both, and a few are diferent semantically acording to which adpositions are added. Passive agreement is necessary with stative verbs. Active agreement is marked by a set of prefixes:

Before vowels:

	Singular	Paucal/Plural
1st person	s-	s-(excl)/sum-(incl)
2nd person	b-	b-
3rd person	∅-	∅-

An example: us- to grow

	Singular	Paucal	Plural
1st person	sus	susega/sumusega	susä/sumusä
2nd person	bus	busega	busä
3rd person	us	usega	usä

Before consonants:

	Singular	Plural
1st person	so-	so-(excl)/sow-(incl)
2nd person	u-	u-
3rd person	∅	∅

paj-to walk

	Singular	Paucal	Plural
1st person	sopaj	sopajega/sowpajega	sopajä/sowpajä
2nd person	upaj	upajega	upajä
3rd person	paj	pajega	pajä

Patient agreement is marked by a set of suffixes:

after vowels:

	Singular	Plural
1st person	-t	-t(excl)/-si(incl)
2nd person	-w	-w
3rd person	-∅(inanim)/-r(anim)	-j/-r(anim)

Daxina-To be put on an horizontal position

	Singular	Plural
1st person	daxinat	daxinagat/daxinagasi	daxinat/daxinäsi
2nd person	daxinaw	daxinagu	daxinaw
3rd person	daxina/daxinar	daxinagaj/daxinagar	daxinaj/daxinar

After consonants:

	Singular	Paucal/Plural
1st person	-it	-it/si
2nd person	-u	--u
3rd person	-∅/-(e)r	-e/-r

tom-to fall asleep

	Singular	Paucal	Plural
1st person	tomit	tomegat/tomegasi	tomat/tomäsi
2nd person	tomu	tomegaw	tomaw
3rd person	tom/tomer/torm	tomege/tomegar	tomaj/tomar

Agreement with transitive verbs goes as follows: Dib-to hit

	1° sing	2° sing	3°sing	1° pau ex	1°pau inc	2° pau	3° pau	1° pl ex	1° pl inc	2° pl	3° pl
1° sing	---	udibit	dibit	sodibegat	sowdibegat	udibegat	dibegat	sodibat	sowdibat	udibat	dibat
2° sing	sodibu	---	dibu	sodibegu	sowdibegu	udibegu	dibegu	sodibaw	sowdibaw	udibaw	dibaw
3° sing anim	sodirb	udirb	dirb	sodibegar	sowdibegar	udibegar	dibegar	sodibar	udibar	dibar
3° sing inanim	sodib	udib	dib	sodibega	sowdibega	udibega	dibega	sodibä	sowdibä	udibä	dibä
1° pl ex	---	udibit	dibit	---	---	udibegat	dibegat	---	---	udibat	dibat
1° pl inc	---	udibsi	dibsi	---	---	udibegasi	dibegasi	---	---	udibäsi	dibäsi
2° pl	sodibu	---	dibu	sodibegu	sowdibegu	udibegu	dibegu	sodibaw	sowdibaw	udibaw	dibaw
3° pl anim	sodirb	udirb	dirb	sodibegar	sowdibegar	udibegar	dibegar	sodibar	sowdibar	udibar	dibar
3° pl inanim	sodibe	udibe	dibe	sodibege	sowdibege	udibege	dibege	sodibaj	sowdibaj	udibaj	dibaj

Plurality

There is a series of suffixes that marks subject plurality. three numbers contrast: singular, paucal and plural. Paucal is usually used for homogeneous or collective sets of items, plural for heterogeneous aggregates.

Singular	∅
Paucal	-(e)g(a)
Plural	-ä

TAM

Tense is marked along with evidentiality with a series of prefixes. Tense is marked for future/ non future. Non future is divided according to experiential, inferred or reported evidentiality:

Non future experienced	∅-
Inferred	ö-
Reported	al-
Future	h(a)-

Ex:

mawe	he eats/he was eating (I saw him)
ömawe	he eats/he was eating (I suppose)
almawe	he eats/he was eating (Somebody told me)
hamawe	he will eat