Kaidu

Background

English

Hi, I am the creator of the Kaidu language, Kyle Farrington. Kaidu is currently three years old. I started making this language when an older language of mine died. Kaidu is used mainly as a personal artlang, there is currently no specific conworld for it, but I use it in a number of stories. I have drawn inspiration from several languages, namely English, Spanish, Japanese, Arabic, and some Bantu languages. Conlanging has been my hobby for many years. Kaidu’s grammar is simple for English speakers; the hardest parts are the verbs and adjectives because they are different from English. Kaidu’s syllable structure is simply (C)V(C). Kaidu has a lot of the basic consonants, but it has some unique consonants as well. For instance, it has prenasalized consonants that can occur in initial positions. I have designed Kaidu’s lexicon to be somewhat more minimal than English. Kaidu words are created in the style of Chinese compounds.

Kaidu

Dimu, ka ziurim fu Kaidui niurme, Caier Ferincton. Mpos Kaidu mpusim hop doit. Ka sondiores Kaidui niur font can mob vintric du nuses. Kaidu zintdampric zoroicim az can kabenric ziomtu, mpos wint ziurim vai niurud pod se, vef ka zorim se nac suizric nkob. Ka siadiomoices tem suizric duru, nac zintdamp Angerdu, Espaniadu. Nihondu, Arapdu, af zai Pantui du. Duniur ton ziures kai sosdoim pod suizric doitru. Kaidui cutupud mpizric pod Angerdui nkabme. Fu kuimob wimpizric zampru ziurim fu zorfoi af merfoi pod se porim to Angerdu. Kaidui nacdampi moi mpizric ziurim (C)V(C). Kaidu mpusim suizrinc mpizric fereznaw, vef wet mpusim zai candempric feresnaw. Pod can zemp se mpusim fiuvmpimpnaw dant ziuroidkim nac fu canric mu. Ka ton siatoes Kaidui mafoiti bus dant femob redzuizrim Angerdu. Kaidui poi niuroices nac fu Zonckuodui gaimpfoii zemp.

Phonology

Consonants

	Bilabial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Plosive	p	t		[c]	k	q
Prenasal Plosive	ᵐp	ⁿt		[ᶮc]	ᵑk	ᶰq
Nasal	m	n
Fricative	f v	s z		[ɕ ʑ] [ç ʝ]	χ ɣ
Approximant	β̞	ð̞	ɻ		ɰ

Vowels

	Front	Near-front	Central	Near-back	Back
Close
Near-close
Close-mid
Mid
Open-mid
Near-open
Open

Phonotactics

In Kaidu all syllables can be a maximum of CVC. C can be ANY consonant, including prenasalized stops in initial positions. When a prenasal stop is syllable final, it becomes a homorganic cluster of nasal+stop. Certain consonants become palatal versions when before the diphthongs ia, io and iu.

Orthography

Kaidu's Latin alphabet, called Romakak, is very straightforward, as it is made to be a 1 to 1 correspondence with the conscript, called Kaikak.

Grammar

Syntax

Kaidu word order is SVO. Adpositions are prepositions.