Togarmite

Togarmite
Þėrmir
Pronunciation	[/θermir/]
Created by	IlL
Setting	Lõis
Language family	Afro-Asiatic North Semitic (Togarmo-Canaanite) Togarmite

Togarmite (Þėrmir /θermir/ or lsėnyn þėrmiryn /ˈləsenən θermirən/) is a Semitic language closely related to Hebrew and Knánith. It is inspired by Maltese, Germanic languages (particularly Icelandic) and the Semitic conlang Alashian.

Modern Togarmite retains the Semitic root-and-pattern morphology and binyanim of Old Togarmite, but has undergone some grammatically restructuring (such as loss of grammatical gender and the use of the Old Togarmite waw-subjunctive for the present tense), taking features of the Greece-Turkey-Northern Levant sprachbund.

Todo

• gdėl = big
• kdės = (formal, mathematics) specific, particular, chosen (not arbitrary)
• mkodas = holy, sacred (from Old Semehliþ muquddaš)
  • mkosyn = expletive/swear word like "damn"
• Çabśyn w frasel /xabʃən və fɾasel/ = The sheep and the horses
• nabė = to call out (wrongdoing)

Phonology

Consonants

• /m n/
• /t ts k ʔ/
• /b d g/
• /f θ s ʃ x h/
• /v z ʒ ɣ/
• /l r j/

Vowels

a å e ė i o u y /a ɔ ɛ e i o u ə/

aj aw /ai au/

Pronouns

	I	thou (m.)	thou (f.)	thou (formal)	he	she	we (exc.)	we (inc.)	you (pl.)	you (pl. formal)	they (an.)
Nominative	rie	łen	łes	Pra	in	is	tsa	bang	łănam	Impra	ănam

Nouns

Like Knánith, Modern Togarmite has lost grammatical gender. Noun have indefinite and definite states but the construct state has been lost.

Example: ȝėlam 'world'

• Indefinite state: ȝėlam = a world; ȝėlami = worlds
• Definite state: ȝėlamyn = the world; ȝėlamil = the worlds

Adjectives

big in Togarmite:

• gdėl / gdėlyn
• gdėlin / gdėlel

Degree

Adjectives do not have separate degree forms, unlike in Indo-European languages. A dedicated particle brėþ (*bi-raʔēθī yuθ- 'when-see.INF-1SG ACC') is used for 'than', however.

Verbs

• Past = prefix conjugation
• Present = particle 3and + w-form?
• Future = suffix conjugation
• Subjunctive = w-form (like the Hebrew construction wa-ashiv-ah "so that I may answer")
• Imperative
• Infinitive
• Participles

Passive uses the PSem stative; use passive participle for past passive

Binyanim

Binyan 1: fȝal

tȝam 'to choose'

Binyan 2: faȝėl

taȝėm 'to elect'

Binyan 3: hyfȝėl

hytȝėm 'to distinguish'

Binyan 6: styfȝėl

stytȝėm 'to try out'

Concatenative "binyanim"

• [STEM] = active
• ʔaC-[STEM] (geminating) = passive
• ta-[STEM] = reflexive/reciprocal
• mV- = participle
• []-ar/-at- = verbal noun

Gzarot

Main article: Togarmite/Gzarot

In Semitic languages, gzarot (Hebrew, sg. gizra 'figure, form, pattern') are variations of an inflectional (especially verbal) paradigm that are determined by the choice of consonants in the consonantal root. Thus, a paradigm has not only a regular gizra but various irregular ones, which occur most commonly when

• the consonantal root contains a "guttural" (ʔ ȝ h) or a semivowel (j w);
• the consonantal root contains a n, since nC tends to assimilate into CC
• the consonantal root has 2 letters.

Lexicon

ʔ

• ʔwr
  • awr 'light'
• ʔxl
  • yxal 'to eat'
  • exly 'food'
  • taxil 'comsumption'
• ʔmn
  • haamėn 'to trust, to believe'
• ʔmr
  • ymar 'to say'
  • emry 'remark'
  • amer 'to assert, to affirm'
• ʔrþ
  • arþy 'earth'

B

• bajþ 'house'

G

• gdl
  • gdėl = big

D

• drs

H

• hdš
  • hyduš 'new'
• htʔ
  • heta 'sin'
  • hatė 'to sin'
• hml
  • hymal 'to suffer'
  • hymul 'patient'

W

• wld
  • waldy 'child'
  • molad 'birth'
  • wlad (archaic) 'to give birth to (of a woman)'
  • holėd 'to give birth to, to sire, to father' (for both genders in the modern language)
• wrš
  • waršy 'inheritance'
  • wrėš 'to inherit'
  • wriš 'heritable'
  • wrišt 'gene'
  • morašt 'heritage'
  • twarešt 'tradition'

Z

• zhr (?)
  • hazhėr 'to warn'
• zrȝ
  • zarȝe 'seed'

Ž

• žbh
  • myžbeh 'sacrifice'
• žbi 'antelope'
• žhb
  • žahab 'gold'
  • žahėb 'to gild'
• žhr
  • žohri 'noon'
• žxr
  • žyxar 'to remember'
  • žaxėr 'to record; to memorize'
  • hažxėr 'to remind'
  • haždaxar 'to come to mind'
  • styžxėr 'to make note of'
• žrȝ
  • žerėȝ (f.) 'arm'

T

• tȝm
  • tȝam 'to choose; (archaic) to taste'
  • taȝėm 'to elect'
    • taȝum 'election'
  • þytaȝėm '(literary) to be pleased with, to take pleasure in'
  • stytȝėm 'to try out'

J

• jad 'hand'
• jbs
  • jabas 'dry'

L

• lbs
• lmd
  • lymad 'to notice, to experience, to come to know'
  • lamėd 'to show, to point out'
  • halθamad 'to find one's way around'

M

• mlk
  • malky 'king'

N

• nbʔ
  • nybi 'prophet, truthteller'
  • nabė 'to call out (a wrongdoing)'
• nśʔ
  • nyša 'to carry'
• nþn
  • nyþan 'to give'

Ȝ

• ȝšy
  • ȝyšė 'to do, to make'

F

• flʔ
  • føle 'miracle'
  • hafle 'to amaze'
  • miføla 'wonderful'

S

• sxn
  • sxan 'to live (at a certain place)'
  • mesxan 'apartment'
  • saxėn 'to inhabit'
• smȝ
  • smaȝ 'to hear'

Š

• šmėl 'north'

C

• cbȝ
• cdk

K

• kds
  • kdės 'specific, not arbitrary'
  • kadės 'to sanctify'
• krʔ
  • kra 'to read, to call'
  • mekra 'scripture'
  • takru 'invocation, prayer'
• ksm
  • haksėm 'to curse'

R

• rʔy
  • ryė 'to see'