Mekoshan
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Mekoshan Meexoŝ | |
Spoken in: | USA |
Conworld: | Future |
Total speakers: | 50 Million |
Genealogical classification: | Germanic
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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 |