Sajem Tan

Sajem Tah or Common Honey is a collaborative conlang started in November 2015 by members of the CONLANG mailing list. As of 29 December 2015, the phoneme inventory and romanization have been decided along with some of the phonotactics, a few words have been coined and a few simple sentences written; work on the native script, syntax and morphology are proceeding.

The Sajem Tah community is based on the following creation myth, posted by Shanoxilt Cizypij on 30 November 2015:

So very long ago, during gray and overcast days past, Thunder rumbled. From the shaken sky tumbled Thunder's noises and with them Rain. By the fallen Rain, Flower was nourished and River was filled. Upon its web, between Flower and Stone, Spider gathered Rain. When Rain ceased and Thunder silenced, Bee gathered Flower's pollen. Bee then flew away to its hive to make our Common Honey. Upon the hive came Bear who so loved our Common Honey that it shared with all who would sample. Witnessing all this, from atop Stone, Bird declared, "May this recur until all our tribe partakes of Common Honey."

The characters in this myth are also the titles or roles of members of the community:

Thunder	phonology	Samantha Tarnowski
Rain	morphology	Scott Hamilton
Spider	syntax	Jim Henry
Flower	semantics	Brett Williams
Stone	orthography	Daniel Swanson
River	pragmatics	Samantha Tarnowski
Bee	corpus	Jim Henry
Bear	pedagogy	Jon Michael Swift
the swift feathered one	supervision	Shanoxilt Cizypij

Each of the roles has certain taboos as well as responsibilities for the development of the language. For instance, Bee (who was the last to edit this document) cannot refer to the swift feathered one by name.

Phonology and romanization

i - i e - eh ɛ - e æ - a u - u ɑ - ah ɤ - ul ʌ - uh y - y ø - ol ɵ - o œ - el

ts - ts t - t k - k m - m n - n f - f s - s ʒ - zh ɮ - zl x - x ʎ - j θ - th v - v z - z ʃ - sh d - d g - g ɬ - sl