Taddjok

The Taddjok Language (known internally as "tjennítaddjok" or simply "tjenní" meaning 'language') is a language isolate. Although it is not particularly easy to place it into an existing language family, it bares some grammatical similarities with Uralic languages such as Finnish and Estonian, as well as Turkic languages like Turkish and Kazakh. It is a Verb-Subject-Object language, meaning that rather than using the English Subject-Verb-Object word order "Sam ate apples", Taddjok uses sentences equating to "ate Sam apples". It has quite a complicated noun declension, declining nouns for case, article, number, demonstrative determiners and possession. This noun declension also in some cases spills over onto adjectives, so adjectives are also found to decline with the same or similar case endings and number endings. In contrast, the language's verbs are comparatively easy, it has three simple tenses: the past, present and future, no grammatical aspect and only a handful of verb modifying markers.

Vowels
Taddjok has a system of long and short vowels. However, the short form of the vowel is often found to be in a different place of articulation to it's long counterpart. These can often be very different to their corresponding long/short vowel - the most divergent of these being the long form of the short vowel [ɨ], which is often realised as the diphthong [ɪə̯ː] (pronounced like the vowel sound in non-rhotic pronunciations of "leer" or "beer").