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|name = Kandi | |name = Kandi | ||
|nativename = ''Kāndi tsūyi'' | |nativename = ''Kāndi tsūyi'' | ||
|pronunciation = [ | |pronunciation = [kaːndɪ t͡suβ̞ʝɪ] | ||
|region = West Africa | |creator = [[User:Waahlis|Waahlis]] | ||
|states = Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso | |setting = Unknown conworld | ||
<!-- |region = West Africa | |||
|states = Sierra Leone, Burkina Faso --> | |||
|speakers = 4 million | |speakers = 4 million | ||
|date = | |date = 2015 | ||
|familycolor = Afro-Asiatic | |familycolor = Afro-Asiatic | ||
|fam1 = Jasi-Jivan | |fam1 = Jasi-Jivan | ||
|fam2 = Tanisi | |fam2 = Tanisi | ||
|ancestor = Proto- | |ancestor = Proto-Kandi | ||
|iso1 = ts | |iso1 = ts | ||
|iso2 = ts | |iso2 = ts | ||
|iso3 = qts | |iso3 = qts | ||
|script = [[w:Latin script|Latin]] | |script = [[w:Latin script|Latin]] | ||
|agency = '' | |agency = ''Aytšin Tatšūkkāndi'' | ||
|notice = IPA | |notice = IPA | ||
}} | }} | ||
'''Kāndi''', or '''Tsan''' (''kāndi tsūyi'' or ''tsani tsūyi'') is a language spoken by the Tsan people. It belongs to the Tanisi language family and is thus distantly related to the [[Ris]] language. Kandi is a heavily [[w:agglutinative language|agglutinating]] with a complex verbal morphology. The language has repeatedly been analysed as lacking [[w:nouns|nouns]] and [[w:adjectives|adjectives]] altogether, in favour of [[w:verb|verb]]s. | |||
Slightly dated versions of the language were featured in the [[Third Linguifex Relay/Tsan|third]] and [[Fourth Linguifex Relay|fourth Linguifex relay]]s. These are probably not a good source for the constructed language, but they do give the reader an impression of Kandi's evolution. | |||
==Background== | |||
The language was supposedly first documented scholarly by the Belgian linguists Émile d'Ivoire and his Scottish colleague John Glenn Crossing, both of which were experienced in the field of the related Jivan languages, including for example the [[Ris]] language. They first encountered the Kandi people in the early 19<sup>th</sup> century south of the Caspian Sea, in what is now Northern Iran. The Kandis dwelled in small villages intentionally isolated from the rest of the country. Crossing recognised the language's syntactic pecularities and assessed it could be related to the Jivan languages, a then rather unfounded speculation. | |||
The Kandi language, which the natives had not given a name, was eponymously named after the speakers themselves; '''''kāndi''''' meaning ''handy'' in the language. The word is most likely related to Jávva '''''gánne''''', Wok '''''khaṃ''''' and Ris '''''sān''''', and kan be traced back to the hypothetical Proto-Jasi-Jivan form '''''*kʰãn'''''. | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
The Kandi inventory has been documented and assessed repeatedly since the 19<sup>th</sup> century, the foremost scholars in the field being the Belgian linguist Émile d'Ivoire and the Scottish linguist John Glenn Crossing, an expert on Jivan languages. This page uses a standard notation where C is a consonant, N a nasal consonant, and V is a vowel. Features are indicated by square brackets [ ] and plus or minus signs, ±. | The Kandi inventory has been documented and assessed repeatedly since the 19<sup>th</sup> century, the foremost scholars in the field being the Belgian linguist Émile d'Ivoire and the Scottish linguist John Glenn Crossing, an expert on Jivan languages. This page uses a standard notation where C is a consonant, N a nasal consonant, and V is a vowel. Features are indicated by square brackets [ ] and plus or minus signs, ±. | ||