Phonotactics is a "rule" of how words should be formed in a language. Here are some restrictions of Sänjaxom that I defined:

1. The max syllable of Sänjaxom is (C)V(C) (consonant; vowel; consonant), meaning there's only one consonant at the start fo the syllable and at the end, which is a relatively a simple syllable structure compared to Engrish (C)(C)(C)V(C)(C)(C)(C).

2. all consonats can be on onset, the start of a syllable and on coda, the end of a syllable (except /h/, so syllable such as /tah/ is not permitted because there's the /h/ is at the end of a syllable).

3.Stop consonants (p b t d k g) cannot be before nasal consonants (m n), so consonants combinations such as /pn/ or /dm/ are not permitted.

4. Here are all illigal syllables (I'm way too lazy to explain all):

/ji/, /wu/, /xi/, /hi/, /hu/, /si/, /wo/, /wø/, /wy/, /jy/

If you don't know how to read IPA:

IPA Consonant Chart; IPA Vowel Chart

At word order, there is not much surprise going on. The basic word order is SOV (Subject, Object, Verb), one of the most common word order after SVO (subject, verb, object). So if you want to say "Koraidon eats the sandwich", you would say like "Koraidon the sandwich eat.". The verb is at the end, always, no matter in which context. So in Sänjaxom, it would be...

Ranagigoradagkäprägitak pasopatan janäm.

Subject Object Verb

At nouns in Sänjaxom, it, again, doesn't really have surprises going on. Like really boring. However, there are dual (two of the stuffs) and plural (many of stuffs) suffixes plus cases that can be attached to nouns.

NUMBERS

Singular: Ø

Dual: -ki

Plural: -man

ARTICLE

Sänjaxom has a suffix for denfinite article ("the") and can be attached to a noun using -ta

CASES

Nominative: Ø

• Subject of sentence

Accusative: -(u)n

• Direct object

Genetive: -(e)ne

• Posession; used with postposition (preposition but it goes after noun) as postpositions are nouns

Dative: -(i)l

• Indirect object

Locative: -(o)s

• Location

Instrumental-comitative: -(a)t

• "with"  using something; with someone

Ablative: -sy

• Away from something

At some noun cases, I wrote vowels in brackets. Why? It's because it depends on if the word ends with a vowel or with consonant. For example:

• A word of "water" is kim and if the accusative suffix is attached:

kim-un

--> The vowel is written because kim ends with a consonant.

• A word of "raccon" is lix̂ta and if the dative suffix is attached:

lix̂ta-l

--> No vowel is written because lix̂ta ends with a vowel.

TOPIC MARKER

Sänjaxom also features a topic marker by attaching -k or -ok depending on if the words ends with a vowel or a consonant. It marks a topic of a sentence.

Where to place all those sillies

N-(1)-(2)-(3)-(4)-(5)

N: Noun

(1): Numbers: Singular, Dual, Plural

(2): Article

(3): Cases: Nominative, Accusative, Dative, Genetive, Locative, Instrumental-comitative, Ablative

(4): Topic marker

(5): If slot 2 and slot 1 are not used, the verb suffix (-nä) can be used to turn the noun into a verb

Tense, aspect and mood

Sänjaxom features...

3 tenses:

Present: Ø

Past: -(e)rö

Future: -(y)l

3 aspects:

Perfective: Ø

Habitual: -inä

Inochative: -(g)ödy

3 Voices:

Active: Ø

Passive: -häm

Causative(?): -zä

3 moods:

Indicative: Ø

Visual: -(r)öt

Speculative: -gi

Where to place all those sillies

V-(1)-(2)-(3)-(4)-(5)-(6)-(7)-(8)

V: Verb (in stem)

(1): Causative

(2): Negative suffix (-(e)njö/-(e)njo)

(3): Passive

(4): Tense

(5): Aspect

(6): (conjuncation per person and number of previous slot)

(7): Mood

(8): 

– Relative suffix (-(e)re)

– Adverbial suffix (-x̂a*)

– Question marker (-(i)ne)

– -jo (much like Engrish "innit?" and Japanese "ne"; idk what's called linguistically)

*Before you attach this suffix:

→If the verb ends with Ä, Ö or Y:  Ä, Ö or Y changes to A, O and U

→ If the verb ends with anything else: Nothing changes.

More infos coming soon...