Alternative Names: The Holy Language
Family: The Eastern Group of the West Plains family, though it is quite far from the rest of the West Plains family
Location: Along the western coast of the bay (it makes sense if you've seen the map), along the rivers, up to the mountains and extending out into the plains, plus as a lingua franca around the whole bay area. Also is used as a liturgical language in Kikxo worshiping communities.
History: Some 2000 years prior, nomads from the west swept in the the fertile plains and river valleys near the bay, overtaking the languages that used to be there. Roughly 1000 years ago, with writing of their scriptures and the spread of Kikxoism, TbKt began dominating its neighbors. Presently it has split into a variety of dialects that all claim to be the same language, even when not mutually intelligible. As an important trade and liturgical language, it is widely spoken and a frequent contributor of loan words to its neighbors. There are also various pidgins and creoles based on it, especially in the Bay Islands
Writing System: Self made logography with some syllabic elements
Typological information:
- Word order: SVO
- Alignment: Nom-Acc, technically, but it is pretty irrelevant to the language, seeing as neither verbs nor nouns are marked like that
- Morphological: Agglutinative
- Triconsonantal roots. Like really a really pervasive system
- Reduplication- lots and lots of it
- Full reduplication
- Very productive imitative reduplication
- Partial reduplication
- No person marking on verbs, no plural marking on nouns
- Registers and dialects
- Complicated politeness based pronoun system
- 4 basic categories of Pronouns
- Polite/honorific/superior
- Neutral
- Familiar
- Pejorative
- Fairly open, allowing for names, nouns and other things to act as a pronoun if desired
- Symmetrical voice system and applicative suffixes on verbs
- Marked Transitivity
- Xenophobia and extreme resistance to loan words and foreign influence (in the standard language)
- Verbs
- Mood (prefix)
- Aspect (prefix)
- Valency (transfix)
- Voice (infix)
- Role of patient/theme (suffix)
- Compounding/serial verb markers (suffix)
- Nouns
- Possessed "case" (suffix)
- Animacy/Gender on certain nouns (suffix)
- Compounding markers (suffix)
- Ensuring a strong split between heads, modifiers and adjectives
Origins: Early 2015, in Indonesia while on my mission and waiting for my companion to get better during and after a nasty illness
History: Biking long distances between appointments (my first area I was easily doing 40+ km on an average day. We covered a very large area and no matter how we planned it things were far apart) gives you lots of time to think. One day, I had this idea about a religion that believed in one day a year where their god was asleep and the sort of schism that would form over that. This lead to the beginnings of the Kikxot religion. Later on, when my companion got really sick, I decided to do some conlanging between study sessions (because there really isn't much else to do when you're housebound for a week) and based it off of this culture. Since I was learning Indonesian, I wanted to do something based off of it, plus I wanted to do something with triconsonantal roots, ala arabic, despite not knowing how they worked at all. I designed it, wrote a whole creation narrative in it, discovered how awesome reduplication is and sent some materials to a friend, who thought it was cool. After me and said friend had a major falling out a few months later (hence why I am missing some essential world building materials, though I do have the creation story still; and also the indirect cause of this blog), I basically gave up on conlanging until after my mission (before hand I'd spend a couple minutes every couple of evenings working on it, in the personal time between planning and bed, I know so naughty of me), when I finally decided to work on it again.
Status: In-development. I still work on it regularly, but I also do lots of other things
What I'm doing with it and why: It's basically outlined above. It's a very personal lang, though now days it's biggest purpose outside of the art is supplying loan words to its neighbors (gotta cut the personal connection
CALS link: http://cals.conlang.org/language/touijab-kikxot It is very much a work in progress though, this page
Other Notes: The vocabulary has lots of in-jokes! Some are really obvious, like KLB "Heaven" and KKB "stars" and others are more difficult. Try to find them!
7/22 0:33-this is probably a good start for now
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