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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. | 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. | ||
=Siye Nominal Morphology= | |||
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=Siye Verbal Morphology= | |||
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Revision as of 08:21, 5 March 2014
| Siye | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | ['ʃi.je] |
| Timeline and Universe: | EJL Universe, Late 22nd century CE |
| Species: | Indigenous Martian Humanoid |
| Spoken: | Mars |
| Total speakers: | 20,000,000 (est.) |
| Writing system: | syllabic |
| Genealogy: | Tide:* Tiye |
| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | Agglutinating/Polysynthetic |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Split Ergative |
| Basic word order: | SOV |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Linguarum Magister |
Phonology and Orthography
Phonology
/m/ [m], > [ⁿ]/V_#, V_C
/n/ [n]
/p/ [p], > [pʰ]/#_, [f]/_u, [ç]/_i
/t/ [t], > [tʰ]/#_, [ʦ]/_u, [ʦʰ]/#_u
/k/ [k] > [kʰ]/#_, [x]/_u, [ʧ]/_i, [ʧʰ]/#_i
/s/ [s] > [ʃ]/_i
/w/ [v]
/y/ [j]
/l/ [l]
/h/ [placeholder after /m/ [ⁿ]]
/i/ [i]
/im/ [ɪⁿ]
/e/ [e]
/em/ [ɛⁿ]
/a/ [a]
/am/ [aⁿ]
/o/ [o]
/om/ [ɔⁿ]
/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:
/d/ [d] > /l/ [l]
/t/ [t] > /s/ [s]/_i
/b/ [b] /w/ [w] > /w/ [ʋ]
/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.
