Cokkel

Cokjazik ([ˈtʃokˌjazik]) is an artistic and to a lesser degree international auxiliary language deriving its vocabulary from false cognates and commonly recognized words that don't differ cross-linguistically, while shifting away from Eurocentrism whenever possible. Its grammar is largely influenced by Turkish and Hungarian with grammar that calls for agglutination and allows for pronoun dropping.

Etymology

The name of this language derives from the words "cok", meaning "many, much" and "jazik" meaning "language". This refers to the fact that this language derives its vocabulary and part of its grammar from many languages.

Orthography

The Cokjazik alphabet contains all 26 letters of the Latin alphabet, each corresponding to one sound. Cokjazik is analyzed as having 6 vowels and 20 consonants.

Letters in Cokjazik
Aa	Bb	Cc	Dd	Ee	Ff	Gg	Hh	Ii	Jj	Kk	Ll	Mm	Nn	Oo	Pp	Qq	Rr	Ss	Tt	Uu	Vv	Ww	Xx	Yy	Zz

All of these are pronounced exactly like their IPA counterpart except for ⟨c⟩, ⟨q⟩ and ⟨x⟩.

• ⟨c⟩ is pronounced as /tʃ/, that is, like the "ch" in "China"
• ⟨q⟩ is pronounced as /ʔ/, that is like the pause of airflow in "uh-oh"
• ⟨q⟩ is pronounced as /ks/, that is like the "x" in "taxi"

Phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial	Coronal	Dorsal	Glottal
Nasal	m	n
Stop	p b	t d	k ɡ	ʔ
Affricate		t͡ʃ	ks*
Fricative	f v	s z		h
Approximant	w	l	j
Trill		r

* "ks" is technically not widely deemed an affricate. However it is analyzed in this language as such to fit phonotactical rules.

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Front	Back
Close	i y	u
Close-mid	e	o
Open	a

Prosody

Stress falls on the penultimate syllable for non-compound words. In compound words the primary stress is on the first syllable and the secondary stress on the first syllable of the compound.

Phonotactics

Cokjazik uses a strict (C)V(C) rule. That is, that a syllable must have at least one vowel, and may have an onset and a coda consonant.

Grammar

Cokjazik's sentence structure is SVO. It is an nominative-accusative aligned language. It has aritcles for nouns and uses seven cases and three tenses.

Verbs

Verbs conjugate to tense and person.

Conjugation of "gez"
(to go, to walk)

	mi	tu	o	mis	tus	os
Present	gezem	gezen	gez	gezemes	gezenes	gezes
Past	gezdem	gezden	gezde	gezdemes	gezdenes	gezdes
Future	gezgem	gezgen	gezge	gezgemes	gezgenes	gezges