Tayamo language

Tayamo
Tayamese
т'аясы итол, итол т'аямоно
Pronunciation	/ˈt’ajas̻ɨ̯ ˈitol/
Native to	Qazhshava Tayamo autonomy Krenya Selenzia Gadorien [PlaceHolder]
Region	Tayamo Archipelego, Selenzia
Ethnicity	Tayamo people
Language family	Language isolate
Writing system	Cyrillic Latin Tayamese (historically)
Language codes
ISO 639-1	tm
ISO 639-2	tym
ISO 639-3	tym
Glottolog	None

The Tayamo language (also known as Tayamese) (Tayamo: т'аясы итол; t'ayasy itol) is a pre-Thuado-Thrismaran languages language isolate spoken on the islands of the laurentine gulf.

History

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Status

Classiffied as Vigorous, the language is spoken by majority of the ethnic Tayamese population, majority of the speakers live on the largest island of Kayri within the Qazhshavan borders. The western dialect almost went extinct due to Krenyan supression, but with pressure of the post-Great war Qazhshavan government, it is making a slow come back, but is still threatened. The Eastern dialect is in a better spot but still has a relatively low number of speakers.

Classification

With a lot of foreign influence over 2000 years the language has taken in a lot of Thuado-Thrismaran and even some Aschari influence, due to which the modern grammar is very poluted compared to it's original form, of which there are very little texts, due to active periods of supressions from more powerfull nations, which makes the language hard to classify, some believe it to be a relative of the extinct Hewehetan language in Qazhshava.

Dialects

There are three main dialect areas of modern Tayamo which all form a Dialect continuum:

• The western dialects spoken on the island of Selenzia/Hrastmož, which are hard to understand for speakers of any other Tayamese dialects, due to its more complex syllables.
• The central dialects spoken on the Qazhshavan islands, which are the most spoken dialects.
• The eastern dialects spoken on the islands owned by Gadorien, they aren't much diferent from the central dialects, with their major distinction being a distinctive soft speech.

The standard literary forms of the language was based on the Kayri dialect, which is one of the central dialects and the most spoken dialect, however the standard form was created around 100 years ago, so the modern pronounciation varies from how it's written.

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial	Alveolar		Palatal	Velar/ Uvular
Plosive/ Affricate	voiced	b	d	d͡z̻		ɡ
	voiceless	p	t	t͡s̻		k
	ejective	pʼ	tʼ	t͡s̻ʼ		kʼ
Fricative	voiced		z̻			ʁ̟
	voiceless		s̻			x
Sonorant		m	n	l	j	w
Rhotic			ɾ

Vowels

	Front	Central	back
Close	i		u
Mid	ɛ	ɨ̞	o
Open		a

Phonotactics

The syllable template in Tayamo is (C)V(S), where S is sonorant consonant. In the Western dialect the template (C)(C)V(C)(C) is possible due to the disapearence of the vowel /ɨ̞/ in polysylabbic words.

Allophones

Allophones in the language vary by dialect, usually rural dialects tend to have more allophones, while speakers in larger urban areas speak the more literary form of the language, some common allophones are:

When a word ends in a nasal consonant it can merge with the previous vowel: катан /ˈkatan/ → /ˈkatɑɰ̃/, там /tam/ → /tɒw̃/

unstressed vowels get reduced: /a/ → /ə/, /ɨ̞/ → /ɪ/, /o/ → /u/, /ɛ/ → /i/ (/u, i/ → /u, i/)

when /ɨ̞/ is the last vowel of a word, it can get reduced to /◌ʲ, ◌ᵊ/: к'ацы /k’at͡s̻ɨ̞/ → /k’at͡s̻ʲ/

/x/ before or after /i/, /j/ becomes /ç/: хины /xinɨ̞/ → /çinʲ/, рыхы /ɾɨ̞xɨ̞/ (→ /ɾɪxʲ/) → /ɾɪç/

in some dialects (predominantly the eastern ones) /s̻/ and /z̻/ and their afficates are pronounced as /s, z/ before /a, ɨ̞, o ,u/ but as /ʃ, ʒ/ before /ɛ, i, j/: сайжы /s̻ajz̻ɨ̞/ (→ /s̻ajz̻ʲ/) → /sajʒᵊ/

Examples

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