Matsu
Äiniqkelë Kaujë Puhaa
Pronunciation[æiniŋkelə kɑɯjə pɯhɑː]
Created byMatsu
Native toMatsu Union
Native speakersStandard Matsu: 740 million (2010)
Official status
Regulated byMatsu Language Academy
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Äiniqkelë Kaujë Puhaa (English: Common Elegant Language), referred to in English as Matsu, is the primary national language of the Matsu Union, set in a fictional alternate Earth.

History

On First Earth, a wormhole was located in subterranean Udine, Italy during an archaelogical excavation that had started 14 May 2031. This date is now better known as New Year's Day, 0 Other Earth.

Begun in resolute secrecy as to prevent international focus on access to a second world of natural resources, a small group of scientists begun exploring the world they were in, finding themselves based on the position of stars in the night sky to be in a parallel Earth in the year corresponding to 80 CE. The body of the European Union, eager to prevent other world powers from seizing control over this wormhole, and seeing opportunity in creating an escape space for its citizens from a warming Earth, began throwing resources into colonising Other Earth. An advisory body was tasked with creating a new international language for the colony, the result being Matsu.

Phonology

Consonants

Vowels

Diphthongs

Phonotactics

Orthography

Alphabet

Punctuation

Braille

Verbs

Verb morphology

Tense

Type I aspect

Type II aspect

Causative voice

Function of copula

Verbal anaphora

Affixation

Modals

Reportative

Directive

Volitive

Conditional

Epistemic

Adjectives

Attributive and predicative

Comparison

Measures

Compounding

Non-numeral quantifiers

Adverbs

Adverbs of direction

Adverbs of time

Comparison

Nouns

Number

Compounding

Affixation and word formation

Diminutives and augmentatives

Pronouns

Personal pronouns

Demonstratives

Non-numeral quantifiers

Reciprocity

Reflexive pronouns

Zero pronoun

Cases and postpositions

Type I cases

Type II cases

Type III cases

Conjunctions

Coordinating conjunctions

Subordinating conjunctions

Correlative conjunctions

Direct and indirect speech

Interjections

Utterance-final particles

Numerals

Cardinal numbers

Ordinal numbers

Nominal numbers

Fractions and decimals

Date and time

Time deixis

Directionals

Syntax

Word order

Relative clauses

Topic v. subject

Apposition

Interrogatives

Cultural terminology

Kinship

Colour

Ideophones

Toponomy

Appendices

Abbreviations

Terminology

Selected translations