Kandaxangg
| Kandaxangg | |
|---|---|
| Pronounced: | ['ka.nda.Ɂaŋg] |
| Timeline and Universe: | Polycosm, Unknown World |
| Species: | Humanoid |
| Spoken: | Nangah-Riki Archipelago |
| Total speakers: | Probably under 10,000. |
| Writing system: | None |
| Genealogy: | Isolate |
| Typology: | |
| Morphology: | Isolating |
| Morphosyntax: | Nominative |
| Word order: | SVO |
| Credits | |
| Creator: | Linguarum Magister |
| Created: | Spring, 2016 |
Background
Kandaxangg is the language of the Nggang, the human inhabitants of the Nangah-Riki, the Northern Archipelago, who dwell in villages upon the shores while the fey Nggang-Angik live within the mirror-world of the glaciers. Tangg-Nggang culture is paleolithic, animist, and illiterate. Then Nggang hunt seals and sometimes birds. Despite this nomadic lifestyle, Tangg-Nggang culture is highly unified in worship and ethics, valuing cooperation, honesty, and piety towards the triple goddess Handangangg, Iring, and Xanggah. Tangg-Nggang men have a cult of Hindang-Handung, Grandfather Sun, who stays long months in the sky in the summer months, but leaves on a hunting expedition in the winter. Hindang-Nandang, Grandmother Moon, presides over the cult of women and the left side of the tent.
Nouns
Basic Nouns
Kandaxangg lacks grammatical gender, although some nouns have a natural gender.
nanggingg man
nirangg woman
xanding stone
Pronouns
There are four personal pronouns in Kandaxangg
nangg - 1st person
hanggang - 2nd person
andang - 3rd person
ndanga - 4th person
Other Pronouns
nggang - one; person
Numbers
Kandaxangg numbers are quinary. After the initial binary system (the Nggang have no concept of zero), the system operates with a central focus number flanked by two lesser subtractive numbers and two greater additive numbers. It is rare that a Nggang needs to count discrete objects higher than fifteen (15).
1 ndang
2 kand
3 kand kang randax
4 ndang kang randax
5 randax
6 randax tandax ndang
7 randax tandax kand
8 kand kang nandik
9 ndang kang nandik
10 nandik
11 nandik tandax ndang
12 nandik tandax kand
13 kand kang arangg
14 ndang kang arangg
15 arangg
16 arangg tandax ndang
17 arangg tandax kand
