Jorayn
| Jorayn | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | /ʒɔrɐjn/ |
| Timeline and Universe: | contact with cree, french and then english |
| Species: | Human |
| Spoken: | Manitoba |
| Total speakers: | 1.01 |
| Writing system: | Joranic |
| Genealogy: | none |
| Typology | |
| Morphological type: | inflecting, agglutinative |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Nominative-accusative |
| Basic word order: | VOS |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Matthew Turnbull |
| Created: | ~2003 |
The language
Jorayn is a language that I am in the process of creating on a purely for the heck of it basis, as a personal artlang. It is the second language I have ever worked on, and the first one that really ever got anywhere.
some grammatical overview
Jorayn is a VOS, prepositional language that has quite a bit of case marking and complicated verbs with aspect tense and evidentiality on some verbs. Jorayn is a pro-drop language(It often does not state a pronoun that is evident from context or other grammatical cues).
Orthography
vowels :
| orthography | quality |
|---|---|
| i | ɨ |
| a | ɐ |
| o | ɔ |
| u | u |
| ii | i |
| e | ɛ |
| é | e |
Consonants
| orthography | quality |
|---|---|
| p | p |
| t | t |
| k | k |
| f | f |
| th | θ |
| s | s |
| sh | ʃ |
| ts | ts' |
| kka | k' |
| kko | k'w |
| r | r |
| rk | R |
| rrk | Rr |
| l | l |
| w | w |
| y | j |
| gn | ɲ |
| n | n |
| m | m |
| b | b |
| d | d |
| g | g |
| z | z |
| j | ʒ |
the real grammar section
Pronoun system
Jorayn has only one pronoun, which declines for the following things :
- animacy
- number
- person
- sexuality
- case
- The inanimate pronouns are jii(1SG) tii(2SG) and lii(3SG), which pluralize via the normal rules to form ja, ta, la.
- The animate pronouns are as follows
- Heterosexual : jor, tor, mor -> jur, tur, mur
- Bisexual : jorrk, torrk, morrk -> jurrk, turrk, murrk
- Homosexual : cor, dor, por -> cur, dur, pur
- the pronouns follow the normal case derivations outlined in thier respective sections
notes on the pronouns - The sexuality marking is a diachronic result of the reassignment of a larger more elaborate system the included case, the plurals were reassigned to the bisexual and the singular objective became the homosexual pronouns; While this change was coming about I debated simply scraping the "extra" pronouns, but realized that since Jorayn is prodrop it would be pretty easy to hide one's sexuality in case you were uncomfortable with someone knowing, although the conculture that speaks the language wouldn't care one way or another, so the sexuality marking stayed. - The person marking on the inanimate pronouns comes from stories where inanimate things talk and to things, they will refer to themselves, and others will refer to them with these pronouns. A good example is the word for thankyou, which has a form for each second person pronoun: maniimotii, maniimota, maniimotor, maniimotur ... ect
