Českoen

Českoen
Českoen
Pronunciation	[ˈt͡ʃes.ko.en]
Created by	Nicolás Campi
Date	2003
Setting	Earth-like planet, alternate Earth
Language family	Ceskonian
Early form	Ezgeskoina
Writing system	Latin
Official status
Regulated by	Ezgizo Ezgeskoinama (Ičisu ma Českoen)

Českoen is an a priori artlang supposed to be very simple and analytic. However, speakers of the language hold on to the idea that the language used to be quite complex in the past with a School trying to bring awareness of its once lost complexity. The language pokes fun at the conceit that "complexity" makes a "better language" and also that the complexity can only be determined in one subjective set of parameters (mostly imitating ancient European languages).

Introduction

In its backstory the Ezgizo Ezgeskoinama school fought the Azgizu school for control over the teaching of the language. The idea was a language that sounded pretty much like Jabba the Hutt's Huttese but with minimal class prefixes for noun and adjective, with singular and plural numbers. Many of other features of the language are hinted as being retro-fitted by the Ezgizo Ezgeskoinama school in a kind of attempt to make the language "more complex" or "more on par with languages of other international powers", but are mostly hypercorrections or full-on arbitrary creations by grammarians.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Dental	Palatal	Velar	Labio-Velar	Glottal
Stop	p b	t d	t͡ʃ ⟨č⟩	k g
Fricative	f v			x		h
Sibilant		s z	ʃ ʒ ⟨š ž⟩
Nasal	m	n		(ŋ)
Liquid		l r
Approximant			j ⟨y⟩		w

Notes:

• The palatal č is not a stop though it is treated as one due to distribution.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	e		o
Open		a

Grammar

Nouns

	Singular	Plural
Beginning with (C)	i- (ičibu, "house")	mi- (mičibu, "houses")
Beginning with (V)	in- (inonzo, "spider")	m- (monzo, "spiders")

Adjectives

	Singular	Plural
Beginning with (C)	a- (ačibu, "domestic, homely")	na- (načibu, "domestic, homely")
Beginning with (V)	an- (anonzo, "arachnid")	n- (nonzo, "arachnid")

Example texts

anta čoga haska m’ onzo

There seem to be spider-webs.