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
- Shashagin prop n Shadew, the River God
- 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
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