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)
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| 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 the homorganic nasal. 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.
