This year, I will be doing Lexember in two languages: Katnae and Pavyaasar. As I did last year, I will be posting both languages' words on this website every day as well as sharing them on Mastodon. I have abandoned my personal BlueSky account since last year, but I won't rule out posting the words there too should I decide to revive it.
(ka ʔ na e)
/'kat.nae/
Katnae is a language that I have been working on for approximately the last three years, albeit in occasional bursts rather than consistently. It is a highly agglutinative language with a relatively simple syllable structure. I have done less grammatical development on Katnae than I would normally like to have done at this point, but that shouldn't get in the way of vocabulary generation for Lexember.
Katnae is spoken by a society of eponymous space pirates. It has a relatively wide range of dialectal variation, much of which still exists only in my head, and there is almost certainly no "standard" version of Katnae, although certain dialects are much more widely spoken than others. On the other hand, as the Katnae syllabary typically does not unambiguously represent the sorts of phonological distinctions that form the basis of dialectal variation in Katnae, written Katnae is with a few exceptions quite uniform.
I have atttempted to write music in Katnae, and some year I hope to have at least one song sufficiently done that I would feel comfortable making a recording to share for Lexember, but unfortunately this is not that year.
(P V Y A H S R)
/pav.'ja:.sar/ (in the minority Pashkhaara dialect /fæv.'jɑ.sær/)
Pavyaasar is a very new project which I have been working on in fits and starts since October of this year. It is a Semitic-style triliteral language, and draws much more directly from the structure of existing triliteral languages than my previous experiments with triliteral languages, although the phonology also shows clear influences from Greek and Germanic languages among others. In the same tradition, it is written with a top-to-bottom abjad.
There are two major dialects of Pavyaasar; the transcriptions provided for Lexember will be drawn from the more widely spoken of the two, which also forms the basis for the standard literary language. Unfortunately, very little is known so far about the culture(s) that speak Pavyaasar.
Given the relative un-developed-ness of this language, Lexember is a good excuse to create a bunch of words that I will be grateful to have later.