Mochadian

Mochadian
Mokadeòn
Pronunciation	/moʊkeɪdiʌn/
Created by	Mocha
Date	2011
Native speakers	1 (2013)
Language family	Default Mochadian
Official status
Official language in	Mochadian Empire
Recognised minority language in	Fluffian Empire, Canon Empire
Language codes
ISO 639-3	mok

Mochadian was the first conlang I created. I actually created it long before I had any idea what a conlang was. I abandoned it for a couple years then decided to use it for a project I have created to simulate a galaxy at war.

Background

The primary users of this language are the Mochadians, a previously warlike race that dominates nearly half the Mochadian galaxy (Hence the name), but has since calmed down a bit... for now. Mochadians hold change and simplicity very deep in their morals, and that has caused the Mochadian language to go through many different stages during it's evolution. Ever since the galaxy started to expand, the need for a standardized Mochadian language was high, so it hasn't changed much since the Mochadians' expansion. Mochadian is basically the equivalent of esparanto or interlingua, but for the old Mochadian languages.

Orthology and Phonology

Quick summary:

Mochadian Alphabet

Letter	A	À	Á	B	D	E	È	É	F	G	H	I	Í	K	L	M	N
Pronunciation (IPA)	/eɪ/	/æ/	/a/	/b/	/d/	/i/	/j/	/ε/	/f/	/ɡ/	/h/	/aɪ/	/ɪ/	/k/	/l/	/m/	/n/
Letter	O	Ò	Ó	P	R	S	T	U	Ù	Ú	V	X	X´	Θ	Θ´	ʃ	ʃ´
Pronunciation (IPA)	/oʊ/	/ʌ/	/ɔɪ/	/p/	/r/	/s/	/t/	/ju/	/u/	/ʊ/	/v/	/tʃ/	/dʒ/	/θ/	/ð/	/ʃ/	/ʒ/

There are 34 phonemes written with 22 letters and 12 accentuated letters. Accentuated letters do not count as proper letters. There is also an additional accent, 'ś', but it's use is a bit more complex. Note that with this character set, you can transliterate (Or very closely approximate) words of many languages.

Phonotactics

The only rule is that you cannot place two of the same consonant in a row. There are absolutely NO exceptions whatsoever, under ANY circumstance where letters are pronounced different than normal. Each letter has exactly ONE pronunciation.

Grammar and Syntax

Still nothing yet. Thinking.

So far the only rule I've set in stone is that if you have two adjacent words, whith the final letter of the first a vowel and the first letter of the second a vowel, they must be separated with “’”, which is pronounced as a glottal stop.

Morphology

Still working on this, however I have a general idea that suffixes would be added to change word meanings, such as, for example, '-na' for negation.

Dictionary

The only words other than below that I've developed are 'Mokadeòn' (Of Mochadia) and 'Mokadeò' (Mochadia). I'm still thinking about everything else. After writing several sample texts, it has become apparent that words often do not surpass three letters. Here is an example sentence I have created: “Ù’ùn gà, ùn ov da no làn var kàbe”

Person	Case
	Nominative			Accusative			Genitive
	M	F	N	M	F	N	M	F	N
First Person Singular	i			mu			me
Second Person Singular	dù			dud			dùs
Third Person Singular	íl	ílò	ílú	èòm	èám	ím	èòs	èás	íse
First Person Plural	ùe			òs			nos
Second Person Plural	vù			vud			vùs
Third Person Plural	íme	ímò	ímú	emèòm	emèám	mím	emèòs	emèás	míse