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{{Infobox language
{{Infobox language
|name = Xanian
|name = Xanian
|nativename = ''Vâka Xâkömarī''
|nativename = Vâka Xâkömarī
|image = Vâkâ Xâkömârī.png
|image = Vâkâ Xâkömârī.png
|imagesize = 300px
|imagesize = 300px
|imagecaption = '''Vâkâ Xâkömârī''' in written Xanian in [[Vanka]]
|imagecaption = Vâkâ Xâkömârī in written Xanian in [[Vanka]]
|pronunciation = {{IPA|/vɐka ʒɐkɵmaɹɪ/}}
|pronunciation = vɐka ʒɐkɵmaɹɪ
|creator = [[User:Vivaporius|Vivaporius]]
|creator = User:Vivaporius
|states = [[Xania]]
|states = [[Xania]]
|speakers = 5,270,832 in the United States<br/>334,656 overseas
|speakers = 5,270,832 in the United States<br/>334,656 overseas
|date = 2014
|date = 2014
|familycolor = Language isolate
|familycolor = Language isolate
|family = [[Xanic langauges|Xanic]]
|fam1 = [[Xanic langauges|Xanic]]
|stand1 = [[Imperial Xanian Standard]]
|stand1 = [[Imperial Xanian Standard]]
|script = [[Vanka]] (primary)<br/>[[wikipedia:Latin script|Latin]] ([[Xanian alphabet]])<br/>Xanian Braille
|scripts = * [[Vanka]] (primary)
* [[wikipedia:Latin script|Latin]] ([[Xanian alphabet]])
* Xanian Braille
|sign = Signed Xanian
|sign = Signed Xanian
|nation = Xania
|nation = Xania
|agency = Imperial Xanian Linguistics Institute
|agency = Imperial Xanian Linguistics Institute
|iso1 = xa
|iso2 = xan
|iso3 = xan
|map = Xanian speakers in North America.png
|map = Xanian speakers in North America.png
|mapcaption = Location of nations where Xanian is a spoken language
|mapcaption = Location of nations where Xanian is a spoken language
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| style="text-align: center;"|[a]
| style="text-align: center;"|[a]
| style="text-align: left;"|Open front unrounded vowel
| style="text-align: left;"|Open front unrounded vowel
| style="text-align: left;"| -
| style="text-align: left;"|[a] becomes [ɐ] when in the first syllable
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|Â
| style="text-align: center;"|Â
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| style="text-align: center;"|[e]
| style="text-align: center;"|[e]
| style="text-align: left;"|Close-mid front unrounded vowel
| style="text-align: left;"|Close-mid front unrounded vowel
| style="text-align: left;"| -
| style="text-align: left;"|[e] becomes [ɪ] at the end of a word
|-
|-
| style="text-align: center;"|I
| style="text-align: center;"|I
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| style="text-align: center;"|[u]
| style="text-align: center;"|[u]
| style="text-align: left;"|Close back rounded vowel
| style="text-align: left;"|Close back rounded vowel
| style="text-align: left;"| -
| style="text-align: left;"|[u] becomes [ɵ] when the final phoneme in a word, except when the only vowel in the word
|}
|}
===Digraphs and trigraphs===
===Digraphs and trigraphs===
===Alphabet===
===Alphabet===
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| scope="col" style="text-align: center; width: 42px; "|[j]
| scope="col" style="text-align: center; width: 42px; "|[j]
| scope="col" style="text-align: center; width: 42px; "|[z]
| scope="col" style="text-align: center; width: 42px; "|[z]
|}
===Syllables===
The Xanian language has a simple phonological constraint system, in which either vowels or consonants may be placed at the start of a word. However, while any unstressed vowel may close the word, only four of the language's fifteen consonants may end a word if they are used.
{|class=wikitable style=text-align:center
!colspan=5|Phonological Constraints
|-
|('''C''')
|'''V'''
|'''C'''
|('''V''')
|('''C''')
|}
|}


===Stress===
Xanian is a highly stressed language, with emphasize on the first or second syllables of a short word, or first and middle syllables of a longer word, typically regarded as the norm. The stress on words with Xanian is often considered similar to the stressing of words in the English and Latin, though Xanian words will have diacritic marks to indicate when stress on a particular syllable is required, much as with the accents in Latin and Romance languages. With regards to rhythm, Xanian is a stress-timed language, with stressed and unstressed syllables carrying equal weight in a word though the stressed portion may be shorter than the unstressed portion in letter length, but longer when voiced.
===Nota bene===
===Nota bene===
#/z/ never comes before another stop consonant
#/z/ never comes before another stop consonant
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==Grammar==
==Grammar==
===Cases===
===Cases===
There are five cases in the Xanian language:
#Nominative
#Accusative
#Genitive
#Ablative
#Dative
===Nouns===
===Nouns===
====Masculine====
Xanian has no gender, with all nouns using a strictly neuter form with the sole exception of titles.
====Feminine====
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 660px; text-align: center;"
====Neuter====
!scope="col"|
! colspan="10" scope="col"|Cases
|-
!scope="col"|Phoneme ↓
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Nominative
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Accusative
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Genitive
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Ablative
!colspan="2" scope="col"|Dative
|-
!scope="row"| -n
|colspan="2"| ''-n'' (s) / ''-nī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-n'' (s) / ''-nī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-no'' (s) / ''-nokī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-nu'' (s) / ''-nurī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-na'' (s) / ''-nânī'' (p)
|-
!scope="row"| -r
|colspan="2"| ''-r'' (s) / ''-rī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-r'' (s) / ''-rī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-ro'' (s) / ''-rokī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-ru'' (s) / ''-runī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-ra'' (s) / ''-rânī'' (p)
|-
!scope="row"| -k
|colspan="2"| ''-k'' (s) / ''-kī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-k'' (s) / ''-kī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-ko'' (s) / ''-konī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-ku'' (s) / ''-kurī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-ka'' (s) / ''-kânī'' (p)
|-
!scope="row"| -s
|colspan="2"| ''-s'' (s) / ''-sī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-s'' (s) / ''-sī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-so'' (s) / ''-sonī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-su'' (s) / ''-surī'' (p)
|colspan="2"| ''-sa'' (s) / ''-sânī'' (p)
|}
====Diminutives and augmentatives====
====Diminutives and augmentatives====
===Articles===
===Articles===
Articles denoting definiteness and indefiniteness are both attached to their respective words as prefixes, separated from the word by a dash.
====Definite====
====Definite====
{| class="wikitable" style="width: 660px; text-align: center;"
! colspan="14" scope="col"|Articles
|-
!colspan="2" scope="col"|a
!colspan="2" scope="col"|an
!colspan="2" scope="col"|and
!colspan="2" scope="col"|the
!colspan="2" scope="col"|if
!colspan="2" scope="col"|of
!colspan="2" scope="col"|by
|-
|colspan="2"| ''dī-''
|colspan="2"| ''dīr-''
|colspan="2"| ''do-''
|colspan="2"| ''jâ-''
|colspan="2"| ''ne-''
|colspan="2"| ''no-''
|colspan="2"| ''kâ-''
|}
====Indefinite====
====Indefinite====
===Adjectives===
===Adjectives===
In Xanian, adjectives are placed before nouns at all times. Certain adjectives which are descriptions for verbs or nouns will be modified to agree with the word it is attached too. For instance, ''Vâka Xâkömarī'' literally means "signed" or "spoken Xanian", simply translated as "Xanian language". As "vâka" represents a verb or action, it does not decline based on the word it is attracted too. However, ''Tâzeno Xâkömâro'', meaning "Imperial Xania", does decline, as "tâzeno" is a noun describing another noun, and therefore agrees with it.
===Comparatives===
===Comparatives===
====More====
====More====
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====Least====
====Least====
===Personal pronouns===
===Personal pronouns===
====Masculine====
The Xanian language lacks gender outside of titles, and does not differentiate between male, female, neuter, animate or inanimate objects. All genders are represented as the same pronoun. The lack of gender in the Xanian language can best be attributed to the Xanians overwhelmingly female population, but the vital role males play in their species, leading to the Xanians simply discarding the need for gender in their language. Instead, all objects are referred to equally, and without any regard to the gender of the individual unless their position or family name is brought up in the sentence. In these instances, only the title and the surname are given genders, with "o" for men and "a" for women, though the former only applies to surnames for men.
====Feminine====
{|class="wikitable" style="text-align:center"
====Neuter====
! colspan="10" scope="col"|Personal pronouns in Xanian
====Reflexive====
|-
! colspan="2"| Person
!style="width:6em;line-height:1.2;"| Subject/Object
!style="width:6em;line-height:1.2;"| Possessive
!style="width:6em;line-height:1.2;"| Reflexive
|-
! colspan="5"| Singular
|-
! colspan="2"| First
| ''kī''<br />(I/me) || ''kīn''<br />(my/mine) || ''kīnu''<br />(myself)
|-
! colspan="2"| Second
| ''to''<br />(you) || ''ton''<br />(your/yours) || ''tonu''<br />(yourself)
|-
! colspan="2"| Third
| ''te''<br />(he/she/it) || ''ten''<br />(his/hers/its) || ''tenu''<br />(him/her/itself)
|-
! colspan="5"| Plural
|-
! colspan="2"| First
| ''ku''<br />(we/us) || ''kunī''<br />(our/ours) || ''kunu''<br />(ourselves)
|-
! colspan="2"| Second
| ''to''<br />(you) || ''tenī''<br />(your/yours) || ''tenu''<br />(yourselves)
|-
! colspan="2"| Third
| ''du''<br />(they/them) || ''dunī''<br />(their/theirs) || ''dunu''<br />(themselves)
|}
 
===Possessives===
===Possessives===
===Interrogative pronouns===
===Interrogative pronouns===
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==Numerals==
==Numerals==
===Cardinal===
===Cardinal===
The Xanians use a decimal, e.g. base-10 counting system within their language, basing it off of the countable appendages on their hands.
The Xanians use a decimal, e.g. base-10 counting system within their language, basing it off of the countable appendages on their hands. Cardinal numbers, as with the other numbers, are unaffected by the Xanian case system.


Examples:
Examples:
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[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:Conlangs]]
[[Category:Languages]]
[[Category:Xanian]]
[[Category:Xanian]]
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