Timekeeping

Notes on how to talk about dates, times, and timekeeping in Toaq.

Dates

The "spoken word" way of referring to dates is something like 󱛃󱛊󱚲󱛆󱚴󱛎󱚹󱛀󱚹󱚿󱚺󱛂 󱚳󱛃 󱚵󱛊󱚴󱛎󱚹󱚾󱚲󱛍󱚴 (gúheıshıchaq po néıjue) "the 21rd day of (the) September".

To specify the year you can add po nị́aqgukoamgujo "of the year 2024", which can be written 󱚵󱛊󱚹󱛍󱚺󱛂󱛒2024 (nị́aq2024). As in Chinese, years are simply read digit-by-digit, without bıq fue heı.

To say this more "mechanically" there's 󱚾󱛊󱚹󱛂󱛒󱚿󱚺󱛂 21 9 2024 (jị́qchaq 21 9 2024), where the numbers should be pronounced digit-by-digit as jị́qchaq gushı neı gukoamgujo.

When writing a date numerically, the preferred format is 2024-09-21. Such a date can be "read out" (reading backwards!) using jị́qchaq.

Alternative month names

There is a "colorful" set of alliterative month names that may be used instead of the numeric names:

Alternative month names

Month	Name
January	󱚿󱚹󱛍󱛃󱚿󱚲 (chıochu)
February	󱚼󱚲󱛂󱚼󱚲󱛍󱛃󱛂 (luqluoq)
March	󱚹󱚻󱚲󱛍󱚴󱛅󱚹󱚺󱚹󱛍󱚴 (ırue'ısıe)
April	󱛃󱚴󱛍󱚺󱛃󱛃󱚱 (geagom)
May	󱚺󱚲󱛍󱚺󱛂󱚺󱛃󱛂 (suaqsoq)
June	󱚵󱚲󱛍󱛃󱛂󱚵󱚴󱛍󱚺 (nuoqnea)
July	󱚽󱚺󱚻󱚲󱚽󱚲󱛍󱛃 (nharunhuo)
August	󱛀󱚲󱛍󱚺󱛂󱛀󱛃󱛍󱚺 (shuaqshoa)
September	󱚻󱚴󱛍󱛃󱚻󱚲󱛂 (reoruq)
October	󱚴󱚴󱛍󱚺󱚴󱚺󱛎󱛃 (feafao)
November	󱛆󱛃󱛍󱚴󱛆󱚹󱛍󱚲 (hoehıu)
December	󱚹󱚲󱛍󱚺󱛎󱛃󱚹󱛃󱛍󱚺 (cuaocoa)

Time

Toaqgua uses 24-hour time. A time like "2:45 p.m." can be referred to as dạ́qhora 14 45.