X'ocpláq'/history

The following history of the X'ocpláq' language is fictitious.

The true story
The language was created by a small group of Aztec rebellions lead by prince Atlocoxi who were unhappy with the Aztec language and script and were forced to create a new one. They soon found Spanish explorers who drove them back to Spain. The group rapidly became a living souvenir.

The myth
Of course, the group didn't tell their story as it really happened. They came up with a myth, in which the god of stone, Xoxoctictetl, created the language by saying tlahtolli xocplac, which meant the X'ocpláq' language. He gave the speech to the people by pulling one green rock out of the dirt and placing it instead of Atlocoxi's throat. Atlocoxi taught the people how to speak X'ocpláq'. The script was send by the same god in a form of stone carvings.

Lonely years (1769-1816)
The language grammar and full lexicon were written and stored in the Philological Institute of Oviedo in Spain in 1769. Many years passed and the documents began to decompose in the tiny wooden locker. The language started to interest the Language Society Lingua Nova in Boston. They found the documents in 1810 and began to restore the ancient grammar. The language was capable for scientists to speak it in 1816 when the restoration was finished.

The Toore grammar
In 1824, the first objections were made concerning the X'ocpláq' language. Linguist John Gerald Toore started to modify the grammar and the script, but his ideas were soon rejected. It was about changing the grammar into the SVO system and that generitive and springitive should blend with the nominative. The old grammar was restored as it remains today.

The transliteration
By restoring the old grammar, so-called stepping phonemes (the ones with an apostrophe or with an ´ accent) were replaced with the symbols such as ä, ń, ł etc., which lead to the symbol confusion.

Steiner's method
Stuart Thomas Steiner proposed an easy way to transliterate stepping phonemes in 1862. His idea was broadly accepted among X'ocpláq scientists.



Moore's proposal
Giovanni Moore added a few differences to the Steiner's way of transliterating. He put dots instead of macrons on the consonants.



Germaine's way
Scientist Janie Marie Germaine proposed a new modification.

(incoming)