Tahar

Tahar is a language often used in Acadia society. There are five known dialects: Traditional, Simplified, Elenat, Tristitat, and Bharati. Of these five, currently only Traditional and Simplified are actively used.

Traditional Tahar
Traditional Tahar is an inflected language which declines its nouns for case and number. It has a large range of words, and grammar similar to that of Classical Sanskrit. In particular, it has a six-case system, and its nouns decline for gender and number. Cocobeaa is known to be an active user of Traditional Tahar.

Simplified Tahar
Simplified or "Acadian" Tahar is a mostly uninflected language with a slightly more strict word order than Traditional Tahar. It was developed by Kalipso in order to promote wider usage of and interest in Tahar. Its grammar contains influences from Toki Pona, accordingly its nouns are unmarked for case, number or gender, and its verbs are unmarked for person or tense. Its vocabulary is derived from Traditional Tahar. Its vocabulary is very small, however. Therefore, many words for non-basic concepts are formed via compound constructions: for instance cuin'dorei /t͡ɕuin doɾeː/ means "worker", composed of cuin ("work") and dorei ("person") separated by a grammatical linking apostrophe. Context is also very important in Simplified Tahar, as a single word can be interpreted in a variety of ways: sabar means "body", "physical entity", "state of being", or "health" depending on context. Although Simplified Tahar has no official word order, it tends to follow a Subject-Verb-Object, Adjective-Noun, Adverb-Verb paradigm, i.e. it has a broadly head-final grammar.