Hatzonian

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Type
Fusional
Alignment
Nominative-accusative
Head direction
Initial	Mixed		Final
Primary word order
Subject-verb-object
Tonal
No
Declensions
Yes
Conjugations
Yes
Genders
Masculine-feminine
Nouns decline according to...
Case		Number
Definiteness		Gender
Verbs conjugate according to...
Voice		Mood
Person		Number
Tense		Aspect

Hatzonian (IPA: [had͡zoniən]) is a Kardonian language spoken on the planet of Hatzon. It is spoken by about 250,000,000 people, being the official language of Taroday and the primary basis for the common language of the Kardon Empire, Common Kardonian.

Introduction

Hatzonian is my second(?) conlang, first started in 2023 as part of my worldbuilding projects, though originally Liðakuin was going to be used in its place. Specifically, it is linked to my project "National Mana League," as well as my Pokémon AU, though the language itself may see use in my other projects.

Hatzonian, like all of my serious conlangs, is meant to be similar to natural languages in terms of scope. It is inspired by the Dhegiha languages and Korean.

This is a work of love and I ask any readers that, outside of grammatical mistakes, they do not make any edits without my permission. This work is protected by copyright, and I do plan on using it in monetized material; this wiki is a service both for myself and for any future fans.

Phonology

Main article: Hatzonian phonology

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial			Alveolar			Post- alveolar/ palatal			Velar			Uvular			Glottal
Nasal	m			n			ɲ			ŋ
Stop	pʰ	p	ɓ	tʰ	t	tʼ	t͡ʃʰ	t͡ʃ	t͡ʃʼ	kʰ	k	kʼ	qʰ	q	qʼ
Fricative				s		z							χ			h
Approximant				l		(ɹʷ)	j		ʎ	w
Trill				r

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i (ĩ)		u (ũ)
Close-mid	e (ẽ)		o (õ)
Open-mid	ɛ	ɜ	ɔ
Open		a (ɐ̃)

Prosody

Hatzonian is generally described as syllable-timed.

Stress

Hatzonian is a dynamic-accent language. Stressed syllables are louder and longer than non-stressed syllables.

Stress is phonemic in Hatzonian. In romanization, this is indicated with an acute accent on the vowel (the first one of the pair in digraphs).

Phonotactics

Hatzonian is a (C)(C)V(A) language, where A represents any of the consonants in the Approximant row of the phoneme table above. The allowed CC sequences are the corresponding nasal or the sibilant /s/ followed by a plosive, the same consonant twice (though if it is an ejective, the first consonant of the pair is plain), any non-ejective plosive followed by the alveolar trill /r/ or the non-lateral approximants /j w/, and either the plain or aspirated alveolar stops followed by a sibilant (though these become the alveolar affricates /ts tsʰ dz/). Beginning nasals have a tendency to blur syllables together, bunching up with the prior vowel phonetically in many dialects, but in some dialects, it is more parsimonious to regard it as prenasalization, and as such it is not considered a coda consonant phonemically.

Orthography

Main article: Hatzonian orthography

Hatzonian may be either written using the Latin alphabet or the native Hatzonian script.

Consonants

Consonant phonemes

	Labial			Alveolar			Post- alveolar/ palatal			Velar			Uvular			Glottal
Nasal	m			n			ny			nh
Stop	p	b	p’	t	d	t’	c	j	c’	k	g	k’	qh	q	q’
Fricative				s		z							x			h
Approximant				l		r	y		ly	w
Trill				r

Vowels

Vowel phonemes

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i (im)		u (um)
Close-mid	e (em)		o (om)
Open-mid	ae	eo	ao
Open		a (am)

Morphology

Nouns

Nouns decline for case and number in Hatzonian. While nouns have grammatical gender, this only matters for the adjectives used to describe them - the endings used only depend on the final vowel of the noun. For regular nouns, the final vowel laxens in the accusative and dative. Here is an example word to show this, kíra:

Conjugation of kíra

	Singular	Plural
Nominative	kíra	kíram
Accusative	kíreol	kíreolim
Genitive	kírato	kíratom
Dative	kíreolda	kíreoldam

Hatzonian nouns have one of three genders. For the purposes of English-language discussion, these genders will be called masculine, feminine, and neuter.

Verbs

Verbs in their infinitive always end in the vowel u. The vowel changes in several of the conjugations. Here is an example word to show this, kádu:

Conjugation of kádu

	Indicative	Subjunctive	Imperative	Participle
Present	kádu	kádol	kadó	kadúra
Past perfect	kádil	—	—	kadála
Past imperfect	kádam	kádollya	—
Future	kadurnyá	kadurnyéo*	—	—

Other resources

• Hatzonian on Star Dragon's Den