High Shadevan Language

The language of the High Shadevan Tribes, including the Jamyá, now spoken in a few small pockets in the Jaggudorns, is thought to have been spoken widely among the Shadew River and the Jaggudorn foothills of the east. The modern vestiges have undergone considerable créolization, almost exclusively from the Thwarrish High Gwenyan Tribes that immigrated into Thrace and other wide valleys east of the Jaggudorns. The ancient High Shadevan Language is thought to be the substrate and High Gwenyan the superstrate with the modern High Shadevan Language now incorporating many loanwoards from Thwarrish.

Phonology

p

b m w

t

t' d d' s z n

ch

j sh zh y

k

g k' g' ng

h

' R (uvular R)

Lexicon

A

akimu: a shaman

B

C

-chwa: family, great family, little tribe

D

dagunyami: bugbear

dzallanggoo: dragon

K

K'aiu: a boy of the High Shadevan Tribe (Jamyá) Shaman father and Parkyon mother

M

Malag: name of son of Tillyat and Thwar

midva: human

N

nDumi: mountain

nkumá'a n a pile of stones used to honor a local numinous divinity

O

onamshe: the knowledge possessed and exercised by a High Shadevan Shaman

P

pra: divinity

R

ruyak: winged goblinoid

S

shawat' (shawath): one taken by the Elamahti

sheshwat'unnah: the practice of being taken by the Elamahti to become a shawat'

T

te'onami: joining, connection; union between spirits

Tinvar: a demi-mortal person

tskhaa: bird

tulu: higher self

tusla: spirit

U

uglyami: hobgoblin

ugul-zhag': half-hobgoblin + half-human

umyami: goblin

Y

-yá:

yami n spirit of the mountain; goblin; //compare// 'uglyami'

Z

ZH

zha'achem: mound, temple-mound, sacred mound of gods, sacred mound of fairies

zhag': half-breed

Names of Tribes

Jamyá, Gubná, Tajyá, Keddahyá, Pagdá, Tatajyá, D'amekgashachwa,

Morphology Brainstorm

yami → omi; anyami → onomi

0 → emi ;0 → gemi

dva midva maidva ambaidva kidva kaidva

tskhaa mitskhaa maitskhaa ambaitskhaa kitskhaa kaitskhaa

dumi mindumi maindumi ambaindumi kindumi kaindumi

pura impra aimpra ambaipra kipra kaipra

See Also

• Gods and Religion of the High Shadevan Tribes
• High Shadevan Tribes
• Jamyá