Baykon Language

The Baykon Language (beī¿'u ngawe; ᐯᐄᗜᐆ ᓐᑲᐌ; [bɛj!u ŋɐwɛ]) is a language spoken by the people, particularly the Baek, of neubaykonia. It is native to the Baykonian Region of Rathnir, however after the Great Baykonian Migration, most of its speakers moved to Eldham. Those that stayed lost the need to use Baykon and thus it is no longer spoken there. There was also a dialect spoken in the Nether, but it is since gone extinct.

It is used by the government of the Holy Baykonian Empire in parallel with Traveller's Tongue for governmental documents. It utilises a relatively artificial script created to give the language a concrete place within society. It also has a variation that uses the Traveller's Tongue script as to have a more universal ability to read and understand what is written

Phonology
In the Traveller's Tongue script, the phoneme [ ɬ ] is written as / ll /, [ ʃ ] as / sh /, [ ʁ ] as / rr /, [ ɲ ] as / ny /, [ ŋ ] as / ng /, and [ ! ] as / ¿ /. The phoneme [ h ] is often preceeded by an apostrophe.

/ll/ is often pronounced as a snort by Baeks. The development to the [ɬ] sound was due to interraction and adoption of the language by non-pig species. In the Traveller's Tongue script, the phoneme [ i ] is written as / ī /, [ ɪ ] as / i /, [ ɛ ] as / e /, [ ɐ ] as / a / and [ ɔ ] as / o /. Dipthongs can occur between all vowels except /i/ and /ī/. Dipthongs ending in /ī/ are often pronounced as if there was a [j] there instead. Some Dipthongs are pronounced with either a [j] or a [w] between them. Tripthongs do the same.

Grammar
The grammar is relatively simple and self-intuitive. When compared to other languages it is often declared to be increadibly simple with a total of 134 words (7/4/23). All other words found in other langauges can be made by combining different adjectives and nouns or verbs together to create the same level of complexity of speech.

Word Order
Baykon uses a S-V-O word order

Pronouns
Baykon has 5 pronouns: I, You, It, It and They.

she, ᔐ - I

fje, ᐠᕝᔦ - You

gberr, ᒃᐯᕐ - It (animate)

lldo, ᕪᑐ - It (inanimate)

sra, ᔅᕋ - They (people & weather)

General Word Order
Baykon Word order is consistant throught all sentences.

(Article/Determiner) Noun ((Adjective) (Adverb)) (Relative Clause) shu (Pre-Verb) Verb (Adverb) lī (Article/Determiner) Noun ((Adjective) (Adverb)) (Relative Clause).

Prepositions follow lī and are followed by te.

More information on sentence construction, as well as the dictionary can be found on this spreadsheet.

Script
The Baykon Script was made relatively recently in light of the need for the language to be integrated and preserved with its own identity. It is a partial syllabary, with symbols for constonant vowel pairings, vowels on their own and constonants on their own. The Syllabary symbols rotate and add dots to indicate the vowel used. Unvoiced sounds are symbolised by their voiced counterparts preceeded by ᐠ. It is written left to right, top to bottom.

a -  ᐊ

ba -  ᐸ

va -  ᕙ

da -  ᑕ

lla -  ᕦ

ga -  ᑲ

wa -  ᐗ

ha -  ᕹ

ma -  ᒪ

na -  ᓇ

ja -  ᔭ

la -  ᓚ

sa -  ᓴ

sha -  ᔕ

ra & rra -  ᕋ

ng -  ᖕ

¿ -  ᗜ

nya -  ᒐ

Baykon Whistle
Baykon Whistle is a dialect of Baykon spoken mostly by Baek farmers and travellers. It enabled messages to be exchanged over a distance of up to 5 kilometers. Due to its loud nature, Baykon Whistle is generally used in circumstances of public communication. Messages conveyed ranged from event invitations to public information advisories. It is a direct transposition of Standard Baykon to a whistled format, with all key notes in a major octave being used for the 6 vowels, [j] and [w], with different trills, sweeps, stops and other pitch changes to indicate the other constonants used. Baeks who speak this regularly have learned a special technique allowing for breathing in through the nose while continuing to whistle. Speakers of this Dialect also can switch from Baykon Whistle to Standard Baykon mid-sentence if they come within normal speaking distance.