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{{Language|
| English = Mekoshan
| native = Meexoŝ
| country = USA
| universe = Future
| speakers = 50 Million
| family = Germanic
| branch = Anglic
| subbranch = American
| wordorder = VSO
| type = Agglutinative
| alignment = Accusative
| author = Taylor Selseth
| date = 2011 C.E.
| background = white
| headingbg = #B5EAAA
| width = 50%
}}

'''Mekoshan''' ('Mheexoŝ) is a descendant of English spoken in the American Midwest. It is notable among the Anglic languages for it's pharyngealization of consonants.

=Phonology=
Mekoshan has a very large consonant inventory and a very complex syllable structure. Most notable are the Uvular, Pharyngeal, and Pharyngealized consonants that developed from clusters with the historical English /ɹ/. Most voiceless nasals come from /s/+nasal clusters. most /ɬ/ come from English /sl/.
==IPA==
{|
|| ||Labial||Alveolar||Palatal||Velar||Uvular||Pharyngeal||Glottal
|-
||Plosives, Plain||'''p'''||'''t tˤ'''|| ||'''k'''||'''q qʷ'''|| ||'''ʔ'''
|-
||Plosives, aspirated||'''pʰ'''||'''tʰ tˤʰ'''|| ||'''kʰ'''||'''qʰ qʷʰ'''|| ||
|-
||Affricates, Plain|| ||'''ʦ''' '''ʦˤ'''||'''ʧ'''|| || || ||
|-
||Affricates, aspirated|| ||'''ʦʰ''' '''ʦˤʰ'''||'''ʧʰ'''|| || || ||
|-
||Nasals||'''m m̥'''||'''n n̥'''||'''ɲ ɲ̥'''|| || || ||
|-
||Fricatives, unvoiced||'''f'''||'''s ɬ'''||'''ʃ'''||'''x'''||'''χʷ'''||'''ħ'''||'''h'''
|-
||Fricatives, voiced||'''v'''||'''z'''||'''ʒ'''|| || ||'''ʕ'''||
|-
||Approximants||'''w'''||'''l'''||'''j'''|| || || ||
|-
|}

{|
|| ||Front||Central||Back||Diphthong
|-
||High||'''i iː'''||'''y yː'''||'''u uː'''||
|-
||Mid||'''e eː'''||'''ø øː'''||'''o oː'''||'''ɛi ɛu œy œu ɔy ɔu'''
|-
||Low|| ||'''a aː'''|| ||'''ɑi au'''
|-
|}

==Orthography==
{|
|| ||Labial||Alveolar||Palatal||Velar||Uvular||Pharyngeal||Glottal
|-
||Plosives, Plain||'''b'''||'''d dr'''|| ||'''g'''||'''x br'''|| ||
|-
||Plosives, aspirated||'''p'''||'''t tr'''|| ||'''k'''||'''q pr'''|| ||
|-
||Affricates, Plain|| ||'''dz''' '''jr'''||'''j'''|| || || ||
|-
||Affricates, aspirated|| ||'''ts''' '''cr'''||'''c'''|| || || ||
|-
||Nasals||'''m mh'''||'''n nh'''||'''ny nhy'''|| || || ||
|-
||Fricatives, unvoiced||'''f'''||'''s lh'''||'''sh'''||'''kh'''||'''fr'''||'''hr'''||'''h'''
|-
||Fricatives, voiced||'''v'''||'''z'''||'''zh'''|| || ||'''r'''||
|-
||Approximants||'''w'''||'''l'''||'''y'''|| || || ||
|-
|}

{|
|| ||Front||Central||Back||Diphthong
|-
||High||'''i ii'''||'''ü üü'''||'''u uu'''||
|-
||Mid||'''e eː'''||'''ö öö'''||'''o oo'''||'''ei eu öi öu oi ou'''
|-
||Low|| ||'''a aa'''|| ||'''ai au'''
|-
|}

=Grammar=
Like many Anglic languages, Mekoshan is a moderately synthetic, agglutinative laguage with a bias towards prefixes in it's verbs.

==The Noun Phrase==
The noun phrase has the following structure:<br>
<br>
1. Case clitic or Proposition
2. Demonstrative, determiner, or numeral
3. Adjective
4. Noun

===Noun===
Nouns inflect for number. For most nouns the plural is formed by a '''-s''' or '''-az''' suffix in voicing agreement with the preceding consonant, if any. Some nouns are formed by mutation of the final consonant with or without the normal plural suffix. 4 nouns retain the old Germanic Umlaut: '''Mei''', '''Womn''', '''Mos''', and '''Gus'''; meaning man, woman, mouse, and goose. Some nouns are considered collective or mass nouns and do not take a plural, but instead are preceded by a classifier derived from UNIT of NOUN constructions of English.<br>
<br>
'''tö - tös''' = toy - toys<br>
'''brekh - brek''' = brick - bricks<br>
'''cref - crep''' = trap - traps<br>
'''mei - mou''' = man - men<br>
<br>
'''tri jraiks waar''' = three CLASSIFIER water".<br>

[[Category: conlangs]]
[[Category: a posteriori conlangs]]