Meckelnish language

The Meckelnish language is an official language of the Kingdom of Meckelnburgh, where it is spoken as a second language to Istvanistani by a majority of the population. Mekelnish is a Machiavellic language, most closely related to Alexandrian and Martino, two other minority languages in Meckelnburgh.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Dorsal
Nasal	m		n				ɲ
Plosive	p	b	t	d			k	g
Affricate			t͡s	d͡z	t͡ʃ	d͡ʒ
Fricative	f	v	s	z	ʃ	ʒ	ç
Approximant			ɹ				j
Lateral Approx.			l				ʎ

Vowels

	Front		Ctr'l	Back
Close	i	ʏ			u
Close-Mid			ə		o
Open-Mid	ɛ				ɔ̃
Open	a		ɐ	ɑ̃
Diphthongs	au̯   eu̯   ɔi̯

Orthography

Letter	Name	Name (IPA)	Diacritics
A a	a	/a/	Â â
B b	bi	/bi/
C c	ca	/t͡sa/
D d	di	/di/
E e	e	/ɛ/	Ê ê
F f	fi	/fi/
G g	gi	/gi/
H h	hu	/çu/
I i	i	/i/	Ï ï, Î î
L l	elle	/ɛʎə/
M m	em	/ɛm/
N n	en	/ɛn/
O o	o	/o/	Ô ô
P p	pi	/pi/
Q q	quy	/kʏ/
R r	erre	/ɛjə/
S s	si	/si/
T t	ti	/ti/
U u	u	/u/	Ü ü, Û û
V v	vi	/vi/
Y y	y	/ʏ/	Ŷ ŷ
Z z	zi	/zi/

Sound to spelling correspondences

Consonants

Spelling		Major value (IPA)	Examples	Notes
b		/b/
c		/t͡s/
ch		/t͡ʃ/
d		/d/
dz		/d͡z/
dzh		/d͡ʒ/
f		/f/
g		/g/
gn		/ɲ/
h	initially before close vowel	/ç/
	elsewhere	Ø
l		/l/
ll		/ʎ/		All occurrences of ⟨l⟩ between vowels
m		/m/
n		/n/
p		/p/
qu		/k/
r		/ɹ/
rr		/j/		Occurs only between vowels
r·r		/ɹ꞉/		To suppress /j/ in ⟨rr⟩ between vowels
s		/s/
sh		/ʃ/
t		/t/
v		/v/
z		/z/
zh		/ʒ/

Vowels

Spelling		Major value (IPA)	Examples	Minor value (IPA)	Notes
a	elsewhere	/a/		/ɐ/	Minor value in unstressed syllables
	before nasal consonant	/ɑ̃/
â	elsewhere	/a꞉/		/ɐ꞉/	Minor value in unstressed syllables
	before nasal consonant	/ɑ̃꞉/
au		/au̯/
âu		/a꞉u̯/
aü		/a.u/		/ɐ.u/	Minor value in unstressed syllables
âü		/a꞉.u/		/ɐ꞉.u/	Minor value in unstressed syllables
e		/ɛ/		/ə/	Minor value in unstressed syllables
ê		/ɛ꞉/		/ə꞉/	Minor value in unstressed syllables
eu		/eu̯/
êu		/e꞉u̯/
eü		/ɛ.u/		/ə.u/	Minor value in unstressed syllables
êü		/ɛ꞉.u/		/ə꞉.u/	Minor value in unstressed syllables
i, ï		/i/
î		/i꞉/
o	elsewhere	/o/
	before nasal consonant	/ɔ̃/
ô	elsewhere	/o꞉/
	before nasal consonant	/ɔ̃꞉/
oi		/ɔi̯/
ôi		/ɔ꞉i̯/
oï		/o.i/
ôï		/o꞉.i/
u, ü	elsewhere	/u/
	after the letter Q	Ø
û	elsewhere	/u꞉/
	after the letter Q	Ø
y		/ʏ/		/ə/	Minor value in unstressed syllables
ŷ		/ʏ꞉/		/ə꞉/	Minor value in unstressed syllables

Grammar

Articles

Definite article

	masculine	neuter	feminine
singular	el	lo (l')	la (l')
plural	los

Definite article contractions

	a	de	por
el	al	del	por el
lo	a lo (a l')	de lo (de l')	pol (por l')
la	a la (a l')	de la (de l')	pal (por l')
los	a los	des	pels

Indefinite article

	masculine	neuter	feminine
singular	un	uno (un')	une (un')
plural	uns

Indefinite article contractions