Mekoshan

Mekoshan Maxoŝ
Spoken in:	USA
Conworld:	Future
Total speakers:	50 Million
Genealogical classification:	Germanic Anglo-Frisian American Mekoshan
Basic word order:	VSO
Morphological type:	Fusional
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Accusative
Writing system:
Created by:
Taylor Selseth	2012 C.E.

Mekoshan is a descendant of English spoken in the American Midwest.

Phonology

IPA

	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Glottal
Plosives, Plain	p	t̪ t ʦ ʧ	k q qʷ
Plosives, aspirated	pʰ	t̪ʰ tʰ ʦʰ ʧʰ	kʰ qʰ qʷʰ
Nasals	m m̥	n n̥ ɲ ɲ̥
Fricatives, unvoiced	f	s ʃ	x χ χʷ	h
Fricatives, voiced	v	z ʒ	ʁ
Other	w	l r r̥ j

	Front	Central	Back	Diphthong
High	i iː	y yː	u uː
Mid-High	e	ø	o
Mid	eː	øː	oː	ɛu ɔi
Mid-Low	ɛ	œ	ɔ
Low	a	aː	ɑ	ai au

Orthography

	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Glottal
Plosives, Plain	b	dh d dz j	g x br/rb
Plosives, aspirated	p	th t ts c	k q pr/rp
Nasals	m mh	n nh ñ ñh
Fricatives, unvoiced	f	s š	kh qh/hr fr/rf	h
Fricatives, voiced	v	z ž	r
Other	w/rv	l r y

	Front	Central	Back	Diphthong
High	i ī	ü ű	u ū
Mid-High	e/ri	ö/rü	o/ru
Mid	ē	ő	ō	ɛu ɔi
Mid-Low	è/re	ȍ/rö	ò/ro
Low	a	ā	ra	ai au

Allophony and Morphophonology

Unaspirated plosives and affricates are voiced when in between vowels or adjacent to a voiced consonant.
Coda /n n̥/ assimilate in POA to a following consonant.
/l/ is velarized when adjacent to a back vowel.

Grammar

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

The Noun Phrase

The noun phrase has the following structure:

1. Preposition
2. Article
3. Possessive Determiner
4. Demonstrative, or numeral
5. Adjective(s)
6. Noun

Articles

There are definite, indefinite, and generic article, all of which inflect for case and number. The generic article is derived from the reanalysis of prepositions, and is highly syncretic with the Indefinite. The article is simply omitted in the Generic and Indefinite Nominative

In the following chart, some article forms differ depending on if the following word begins with a consonant or vowel, the vowel form follows the consonant form.

	Generic	Indefinite	Definite SG	Definite PL
Nominative	Ø	Ø	dhe	dho
Accusative	dha/dh'	dha	dhai	dhau
Genitive	o/ov	ov	od	aud
Dative	ta/t'	ta	tē	tō
Benifactive	fr'/fra	fra	frē	frō
Locative	en/n'	en	ne	no

Possessive Determiners

Possessive determiners, also called possessive adjectives or adjectival genitive pronouns, indicate who or what possesses a noun: "my shirt", "her house"

	1st. Person	2nd. Person	3rd. Masculine	3rd. Feminine	3rd Neuter
Singular	mè	ör	hez	hra	es
Plural	ar	vör	dher	dher	dher

Nouns and Adjectives

Nouns inflect for number. For most nouns the plural is formed by a -s, -z, 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: Men, Womn, Mos, and Gus; meaning man, woman, mouse, and goose.

tö - töz = toy - toys
brekh - brek = brick - bricks
cref - crep = trap - traps
men - man = man - men

Adjectives only inflect for the comparative and superlative forms.

Comparative: mor- Superlative" mos-