Mokha language
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Mokha | |
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Mokhavic, Mokhavian, Nanay | |
Pronunciation | /-/ |
Native to | Mokhavia |
Ethnicity | Mokhavics |
Native speakers | L1: 3,650,000 L2: 1,520,000 |
Unduk
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Standard forms | Coastal
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Dialects |
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Latin alphabet, Cyrillic alphabet | |
Official status | |
Official language in | Mokhavia |
Language codes | |
ISO 639-1 | MK |
ISO 639-2 | MKH |
ISO 639-3 | MKH |
Distribution of the language
Absolute majority >30% of native speakers | |
The Mokha language (Mokha: -) is the language of the Mokha people (aka: Mokhavic/Mokhavian/Nanay people), spoken on the coasts and inland of the Unduk lakes in Mokhavia, mainly the Nanay and Monay lakes. It's one of the indeginous languages spoken on the continent of Argis. It's the official working langauge of the nation of Mokhavia, spoken in the majority of the country.
Classification
Mokha is one of only 2 remaining members of the Unduk language family, the Unduk languages are a sub Paleo-Canamo language group. Most other Unduk languages went extinct by assimilation from people like the Ateenians, Haydag and even other Unduk tribes. The closest living language to Mokha, and also the only other Unduk language is the Seykel language, some linguist group them thoghether into one language due to their great similarity. The language map shown in the infobox includes areas of Seykel.
- Proto-Unduk
- Northern
- Nanaic
- Mokha language
- Seykel language
- Monaic
- Aarnuaq language
- Nanaic
- Southern
- Yakrow language
- Duwat language†
- Northern
† - extinct language
Geographic Distribution
The Mokha language is spoken mainly in the majority north of the nation of Mokhavia, around the Unduk lakes. Historically it was spoken in a larger area around the unduk's, but with the surounding germanic and slavic tribes it has shrunked to the modern confines.
Most speakers are located on the eastern Nanay and northern Monay coasts, and around the Dene and Mäjsä rivers.
History
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Phonology & Orthography
Consonants
Labial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar |
Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |||||||
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Plain | Long | Plain | Long | Plain | Long | Plain | Long | Plain | Long | Plain | Long | |
Nasal | m [m] | mm [mː] | n [n] | nn [nː] | ||||||||
Plosive | p [p] | pp [pː] | t [t] | tt [tː] | k̠ [c] | k̠k̠ [cː] | k [k] | kk [kː] | q [q] | qq [qː] | ||
Affricate | ts [t͡s] | tts [t͡sː] | ts̠ [t͡s̙] | tts̠ [t͡s̙ː] | ||||||||
Sibilant Fricative | v [v] | vv [vː] | s [s] | ss [sː] | s̠ [s̙] | s̠s̠ [s̙ː] | x [x] | xx [xː] | x̠ [χ] | x̠x̠ [χː] | ||
Lateral Fricative | ł [ɬ] | łł [ɬː] | ||||||||||
Aproximant | w [w] | l [l] | ll [lː] | j [j] | ||||||||
Tap/Flap | r [ɾ] |
Vowels & Vowel Harmony
Front | Central | Back | |||||
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unrounded | unrounded | unrounded | rounded | ||||
short | long | short | short | long | short | long | |
Close | i [i] | ii [iː] | y [ɪ̈] | u [u] | uu [uː] | ||
Open-mid | e [ɛ] | ee [ɛː] | o [ɔ] | oo [ɔː] | |||
Open | ä [æ] | ää [æː] | a [ɑ] | a [ɑː] | |||
Harmony | ä | a |
Stress
Stress in modern Mokha is free-flowing, and dosen't convey meaning
Writing system
Mokha is written in the Unduk Alphabet, which is a modified Latin alphabet used for the Unduk languages.
Mokha Variant:
A a | Ä ä | E e | I i | J j | K k | K̠ k̠ | L l | Ł ł |
M m | N n | O o | P p | Q q | R r | S s | S̠ s̠ | T t |
Ts ts | Ts̠ ts̠ | U u | V v | W w | X x | X̠ x̠ | Y y |
Unnoficial ways to write the special characters, seen mainly online.
Due to the fact the letter ⟨h⟩ dosen't appear in the language officially, it's usually used in combination with others:
- Ä ä → ah
- K̠ k̠ → kj
- Ł ł → lh
- S̠ s̠ → sh / Ts̠ ts̠ → tsh
- X̠ x̠ → xh
Order | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 25 | 26 |
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Majuscule | A | Ä | E | I | J | K | K̠ | L | Ł | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | S̠ | T | Ts | Ts̠ | U | V | W | X | X̠ | Y |
Minuscule | a | ä | e | i | j | k | k̠ | l | ł | m | n | o | p | q | r | s | s̠ | t | ts | ts̠ | u | v | w | x | x̠ | y |
IPA Sound | ɑ | æ | ɛ | i | j | k | c | l | ɬ | m | n | ɔ | p | q | ɾ | s | s̙ | t | t͡s | t͡s̙ | u | v | w | x | χ | ɪ̈ |
Grammar
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Syntax
- SVO (SOV)
- possessor - possessee
- noun like adjectives
- adjective - noun
- postpositions
- Verb - Auxiliary
Nouns
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Animacy
Mokha, like other Unduk languages, distinguishes animate and inanimate objects. Due to their faith, animates also include plants, fluids, and groups of animates. A food that has been processed is concidered to be inanimate, as it no longer possesses life, seen from a religeous view.
Number
Only animate nouns get plurality suffixes:
- for words ending in consonants other than ⟨r, j, w⟩ the suffix -(c)(v), with the last consonant lenghtening: k̠et (man) → k̠että (men)
- for words ending in the ⟨r, j, w⟩ consonants the suffix -(v)t: ammaj (bush) → ammajat (bushes)
- for words ending in vowels, long or short, the suffix -jt: mejtä (woman) → mejtäjt (women)
Articles
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Cases
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Adjectives
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Pronouns
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Verbs
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Tenses/Aspect/Moods
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Person & Direction
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Adverbs
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Other features
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Questions
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Miscellaneous
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Dialects
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Lexicon
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Language Examples
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- ↑ Seykel is disputed to weather it's a separate language or a developed dialect.