Hatzonian

Hatzonian Hatzon den
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Type
Fusional
Alignment
Nominative-accusative
Head direction
Initial	Mixed		Final
Primary word order
Subject-verb-object
Tonal
No
Declensions
Yes
Conjugations
Yes
Genders
Animate-inanimate
Nouns decline according to...
Case		Number
Definiteness		Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice		Mood
Person		Number
Tense		Aspect

Hatzonian (IPA: [had͡zoniən]) is a Kardonian language spoken on the planet of Hatzon. It is

Introduction

Rokadong is my first conlang, first started in 2020 as part of my worldbuilding projects. Specifically, it is linked to my project "Drawn to AfterLife," though the language itself may see use in my other projects. It is one of the three notable languages of DTAL, alongside the as-yet very incomplete Nentan language Kairitelan and Gomensayan language Liðakuin.

Rokadong, like all of my serious conlangs, is meant to be similar to natural languages in terms of scope. It is primarily inspired by Malay, but also draws significant inspiration from Spanish and Japanese.

This is a work of love and I ask any readers that, outside of grammatical mistakes, they do not make any edits without my premission. This work is protected by copyright, and I do plan on using it in monetized material; this wiki is a service both for myself and for any future fans.

Etymology

Rokadong is a contraction of "dong to rokasela," meaning "Rokasela's language." Rokasela refers to the six major islands of the Acrylla Archipelago, where Rokadong originated, and apocryphally, may also refer to the six extensions from the core of a kanva's body: two arms, two legs, a head, and a tail.

Phonology

Main article: Rokadong phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial			Alveolar			Post- alveolar/ palatal			Velar			Uvular			Glottal
Nasal	m			n			ɲ			ŋ
Stop	pʰ	p	pʼ	tʰ	t	tʼ	t͡ʃʰ	t͡ʃ	t͡ʃʼ	kʰ	k	kʼ	qʰ	q	qʼ
Fricative				s		z							χ			h
Approximant				l		ɹʷ	j		ʎ	w
Trill				r

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i (ĩ)		u (ũ)
Close-mid	e (ẽ)		o (õ)
Open-mid	ɛ	ɜ	ɔ
Open		a (ɐ̃)

Prosody

Hatzonian is generally described as syllable-timed.

Stress

Rokadong is a dynamic-accent language. Stressed syllables are louder than non-stressed syllables.

Stress is phonemic in Rokadong. This is indicated with an acute accent on the vowel (the first one of the pair in digraphs).

Phonotactics

Rokadong is a (C)(C)V(A) language, where A represents any of the consonants in the Approximant row of the phoneme table above. The allowed CC sequences are any nasal or the sibilant /s/ followed by a plosive, the same consonant twice (though if it is an ejective, the first consonant of the pair is not), and either the plain or aspirated alveolar stops followed by a sibilant (though these become the alveolar affricates /ts tsʰ dz/).

Orthography

Main article: Rokadong orthography

Rokadong may be either written using the Latin alphabet or the native Rokadong abugida.

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial			Alveolar			Post- alveolar/ palatal			Velar			Uvular			Glottal
Nasal	m			n			ny			nh
Stop	p	b	p'	t	d	d'	ch	j	ch'	k	g	k'	q	c	q'
Fricative				s		z							x			h
Approximant				l		r	y		ly	w
Trill				r

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i (im)		u (um)
Close-mid	e (em)		o (om)
Open-mid	ae	eo	ao
Open		a (am)

Other resources

• Rokadong on Star Dragon's Den