Tanisi languages

Tanisi
Tsani-Damian
Created by	–
Geographic distribution	North America
Linguistic classification	language isolate Tanisi
Proto-language	Proto-Tanisi
Subdivisions	Asaari Damian Namic
Proportion of the Attamian ethnic groups that speaks an Tanisi language:   0–20%   20–40%   40–60%   60–70%   70-80%

Tanisi (/tənˈɪːsɪ/; also Tsani-Damian) is a North American language family which includes at least the Tsan languages, Damian, and Garathi languages.

In November 2012 a proposal connecting Asaari to the Neumatic languages of Western Utah into the Tanisi family was published and well received by a number of linguists.

General Information

The Tanisi languages is a family, or group, of constructed naturalistic languages, which share common features derived the hypothetic Proto-Tanisi language. They are inspired by a diversity of natural languages, each of them with a distinct style, yet with grammatical and semantical similarities, as well as a shared vocabulary.

These are the planned Tanisi languages so far:

• Asaari - My beloved blue little language. Tonal, American, agglutinative, voiceless and written in Vai. Yes. Vai. Didn't expect that, did you? Perhaps similar to Salishan languages, Navajo and the like.
• Damian - A so far sketchy language with Greek/Slavic/Shona/Khmer influences. Possibly ergative, maybe accusative. Mangled by allophony.
• Namic - Indo-European and especially Indo-Iranian influenced language, tripartite, heavy in phonemes, heavy in cases and heavy in scope. A language revised from being a mixed a priori - a posteriori language of the Indo-Iranian branch.

Attamian attributes

• A verb based morphology.
• Agglutinative by origin, decaded into fusional in Damian and Namic.
• An inherited tonal system - Tones in Asaari and Damian, pitch in Namic.

Genealogy

Proto-Tanisi	Tsani-Damian Tsan Ancient Asaari Carolinian Asaari Middle Asaari Asaari Virginian Asaari Manatho-Damian† Ancient Damian Damian Manathi Neumatic Central Ancient Namic Rayan Middle Namic Namic Southern Tarisi Garathi

• A language in bold denotes that it is extant.
• A language in italics denotes that it is now extinct (i.e. has no native speakers).
• † denotes the extinction of a linguistic subgroup