Ajōne [JNO]
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Language type
A priori
Place & SpeakersAjōne is spoken by a population of around 2,000,000 .
Species
Human/humanoid
About Ajōne
Ajoone is a language spoken by the Malanjhin. It evolved from Fosmotus Ma at some point while the Malanjhin were migrating from Ada Lia, but before the encountered the Trino. It was spoken well into the Rivalist period when the Malanjhin settled on the Okanydh Peninsula.
The main features of Ajoone are its case system and austronesian alignment-like voice system. The 20 case system evolved from only six cases in the protolang. The way this happened was through postpositions being used on cased nouns to create finer distinctions. Eventually, this was common enough that the postpositions suffixed themselves onto the nouns.
Onto the voice system. For each noun case class (groups of noun cases evolved from a single case in Fosmotus Ma), there is an according "antiactive voice" These voices promote an oblique argument to the subject and let the nominative be left out or demoted to an oblique. "I bought it for her" would become "She was bought it (by me)" These voices are used in many places in the language.
The main features of Ajoone are its case system and austronesian alignment-like voice system. The 20 case system evolved from only six cases in the protolang. The way this happened was through postpositions being used on cased nouns to create finer distinctions. Eventually, this was common enough that the postpositions suffixed themselves onto the nouns.
Onto the voice system. For each noun case class (groups of noun cases evolved from a single case in Fosmotus Ma), there is an according "antiactive voice" These voices promote an oblique argument to the subject and let the nominative be left out or demoted to an oblique. "I bought it for her" would become "She was bought it (by me)" These voices are used in many places in the language.
Sample of Ajōne[view] Klamo lokantsānma saksintsan vojo
Where are you going tomorrow?[view all texts]
Where are you going tomorrow?[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeNaosian Family
⤷ Proto-Naosian
⤷ Late-Naosian
⤷ Fosmotus Ma
⤷ Ajōne
⤷ Proto-Naosian
⤷ Late-Naosian
⤷ Fosmotus Ma
⤷ Ajōne
[view] About Naosian FamilyThe Naosian Language Family encompasses all language families descended from Proto-Naosian, including the Omun-Quposhyn Family and the Baḳr Family. Proto-Naosian forms the main language group of the Metoan continent, along with the Al'o-Árièn Family.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Velar | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
Plosive | t | k | ||||||||
Fricative | v | s | ʃ | ʒ | ||||||
Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | d͡ʒ | |||||||
Lateral approximant | l |
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i i: | |||
Open-mid | ɛ | ɔ ɔ: | ||
Open | a a: |
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Ajōne. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
AjōneOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
'// | Aa/a/ | Āā/a:/ | Cc/ʃ/ | CH ch/t͡ʃ/ | Ee/ɛ/ | Īī/i:/ | Ii/i/ | Jj/ʒ/ | JH jh/d͡ʒ/ |
Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Ōō/ɔ:/ | Oo/ɔ/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | TS ts/t͡s/ | Vv/v/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |