Mekoshan

Mekoshan Meexoŝ
Spoken in:	USA
Conworld:	Future
Total speakers:	50 Million
Genealogical classification:	Germanic Anglic American Mekoshan
Basic word order:	VSO
Morphological type:	Agglutinative
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Accusative
Writing system:
Created by:
Taylor Selseth	2011 C.E.

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:

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.

tö - tös = toy - toys
brekh - brek = brick - bricks
cref - crep = trap - traps
mei - mou = man - men

tri jraiks waar = three CLASSIFIER water".