Tasqarînçe

Tasqarînçe (Tasqar Script: تسقرئنص) translating to the speech of the Tasqar in travelers tounge, is the language of the Tasqar people residing in Akirashalam and the Tasqar region.

Origin
Long before the founding of Akirashalam, there was a country known as the Free Territory of Iringa which spanned most of the land in the modern day Kingdom of Sanctus. The Cultural Center of this civilisation was the Capital Ngibamma, where trade and culture flourished. Some Irilani of Iringa also chose to settle west of Ngibamma. Over time Iringa weakened and the west Irilani were soon entirely isolated from the rest of Iringa. As such the cultural development continued separetly from the Irilani in Ngibamma, and with the development of culture, the languange also changed. By the time of Aristios annexing Iringa, the west irilani had become the Ïrîana (men of the desert) and the language spoken by them much more resembled modern day Tasqarînçe compared to the Irilani language.

Alphabet
Tasqarînçe isn't written in standard script but in Tasqar Script. (OOC: Tasqar Script is based on the Persian Abjad where some symbols have been repurposed. It is preferably written in Nastaliq).

The stigmatisation of the letter Ü
In Tasqar culture, the letter Ü has become associated with the devil and death. Therefore it has been avoided when pronouncing words containing it. This has caused most Ïrîqarice words to switch pronounciation except the ones with negative meanings. A example of this is the word "kuszh" that was previously spelled as "küzsh" in irîqarince. The word for "death" - "Üruq", has kept its spelling.

The pronunciation of Akirashalam using IPA:
[əki:reəʃ əɫəm]

Syllable Structure
The Syllable structure in Tasqarînçe is (C)2V(C)2. The Syllable (σ) is broken into the two components:


 * Onset (ω): consists of consonant or consonant cluster.
 * Rime (ρ): Follows the onset, consists of nucleus and coda.
 * Nucleus (ν): consists of a vowel or a syllabic consonant.
 * Coda (κ): consists of consonant or consonant cluster.

Onset
The following can occur as an onset:

Nucleus
The following can occur as the nucleus:


 * All vowels
 * /r/

Coda
The following can occur as the coda:

Syllable Patterns

 * /ɨ/, /eə/, /eɪ/ are always their own syllable.

Word-level Patterns

 * /p/ does not occur in word-initial position in words.
 * /w/ only occurs at the end of words following /ʊ/ in ⟨ù⟩.

The Modern Tasqar Numeral System
The Tasqar numerical system is decimal just as the common Travelers Numeral System. Values in Tasqarînçe are treated like adjectives when they are adjacent to something else. That means that they are placed in front of the word they are adjecent to and connected to the word by an connection indicator [']. To create bigger values than nine, Tasqarince uses a reversed positional system where the lowest value position comes first. According to this order you compose numbers according to this order without changing the spelling. For example if you would want to write the number 14 that would be "Lurphur".

The Old Ïrîan Numeral System
While the Modern Tasqar Numeral system is used currently, it hasn't been like that always. Before the integration of Akirashalam into Aristios, the Old îrian System was used. The Old îrian Numeral System is based in quarternary and only had four numbers. This originates from that the irîan people counted the three phalanges in each finger instead of counting whole fingers. Other than these properties the Old Irîan System is identical to the Modern Tasqar System

Single Nouns
Through addings suffixes new nouns can be formed from pre-existing nouns. One such suffix would be [-art] roughtly analogous to user of or man of proffesion. An example of this would be Kuzshart (Swordsman) where Kuzsh means Sword.

Nouns are categorised as either countable or non-countable. Nouns describing continous matter such as Ehk (Water) and "Çariph (Silk) aswell as nouns describing concepts such as Harteph (Cyan) and Üthon (Hate) are non-countable. Nouns describing occurances aswell as finite matter are countable.

If the noun is determined the suffix [-ut] is added. To notate is that non-countable nouns always appear in the determined singular form. This is the central determiner. In general determiners appear as suffixes to the noun. If a countable noun is in plural the suffix [-a] is added.

Dictionary
https://docs.google.com/document/d/16vjX5OA0LeicxoZ8pNjrG_NS01PrDDdEePLyWDXUtuM/edit?usp=sharing