Dazgo Zin

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Contents 1 Introduction 2 Phonology 2.1 Consonants 2.2 Vowels 3 Anaphora 3.1 Pronouns

Introduction

Dazgô Zin is a conlang created by con quesa for his conworld Arzhanø. It is primarily spoken in the Gayômí Mountains, and the part of the Žegüt Plain south of the Izížabaju River. It is also widely spoken in the Island Sea wherever the Éñažyóyu colonized; and wherever the colonies became independant and established their own colonies. This amounts to a good third of the habitable land there, mostly in the northwest.

Dazgô Zin is interesting in that it is in the midst of changing from a largely polysynthetic language to a largely isolating one.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labio-dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Stops	p b	t d		k g	q Þ	'
Fricative	f	s z	š ž	x	j ø	h
Nasals	m	n	ñ
Laterals		ll l	ý
Rhotics		rr
Approxamants	w	r	y

• < r > is /r\/
• < ll > is /l_0/
• < l > is /l/
• < rr > is /r/

Vowels

i /i/       í /1/     u /M/ ü /u/ 
 e /e/                o /7/ ö /o/
  é /E/                     ô /O/
   a /{/              å /A/ ä /Q/

The Dazgô Zin vocalic system can be considered as consisting of three serieses: one series of front vowels, one series of back unrounded vowels, and one series of back rounded vowels.

Anaphora

Pronouns

Dazgô Zin does not have what we would call "pronouns"; that is, words that always represent a conversation-specific item from a certain class of words. Instead, any noun can be "assigned" a variable at the begining of the conversation, and the noun is from then on referred to by that variable for breveity. This is similar to the system used in Mark Rosenfelder's conlang Elkaril.

The standard assignment prefix is rrV(a)-, where V refers to any of seven different variables that can be assigned. The variables are reffered to later in the conversation with the phrase ÞVü, where V is the same variable.

The seven variables are:

• ét
• ipak
• ôbaj
• iñ
• oñ
• íz
• åq

So, Rréta'igaý means "'igaý [who will be reffered to from now on as Þétü]"