Moon Draconic
| Moon Draconic | |
|---|---|
| Ratihomer | |
| Created by | Madoka |
| Date | 2022 |
| Setting | Alt-Earth |
| Ethnicity | Sky Dragonborns Humanoids |
| Native speakers | 15,000,000 (2023) |
| |
| Official status | |
Official language in | Kingdom of Draconia |
Introduction
Goals
Moon Draconic is my third attempt in making an actual conlang. This time I really tried my best following steps I myself organised. The language is for a project I'm trying to create!
Setting
Moon Draconic is spoken by the north inhabitants of the Kingdom of Draconia, which is the most populated area of the kingdom excluding the capital, Irisamu. In older books, the Moon Draconic was considered a dialect of it's sister language, Sun Draconic, just incorporated into one language named Draconic. With recent investigations and social, cultural movements, Moon Draconic gained independence from it's southern counterpart.
Phonology
Consonants
| → PoA ↓ Manner |
Labial | Labiodental | Alveolar | Alveolopalatal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | m m | n n | |||||||
| Plosives | Voiceless | p p | t t | k k | |||||
| Voiced | b b | d d | g ɡ | ||||||
| Affricates | Voiceless | tsh tʃ | |||||||
| Voiced | dzh dʒ | ||||||||
| Fricatives | Voiceless | f f | s s | sh ʃ | x x | h h | |||
| Voiced | v v | z z | zh ʒ | ||||||
| Approximants | w w | ||||||||
| Tap or flap | r ɾ | ||||||||
| Lateral Approximants | l l | ||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i i | u u | |
| Mid | e e | o o | |
| Low | a ɐ |
Phonotactics & Syllables
The permissible syllable structures in Moon Draconic is (C)V(C), means a syllable may consist of:
- CV: Consonant followed by a vowel.
- V: A single vowel
- CVC: Consonant, vowel, and consonant.
Forbidden combinations include:
- VC: Vowel followed by a consonant
- VV: Two consecutive vowels, meaning that there are no hiatus nor diphtongs in Moon Draconic.
The onset on Moon Draconic syllables can be branched, but it is very restritive, this situation only happens when an