Mekoshan

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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 tʰ tˤʰ 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 breg - brekhs = brick - bricks creb - cref = trap - traps mei - mou = man - men