Mekoshan
| Mekoshan Meexoŝ | |
| Spoken in: | USA |
| Conworld: | Future |
| Total speakers: | 50 Million |
| Genealogical classification: | Indo-European
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| Basic word order: | VSO |
| Morphological type: | Agglutinative |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | Accusative |
| Writing system: | |
| Created by: | |
| Taylor Selseth | 2011 C.E. |
Mekoshan ('Mheqqoŝ) 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".
