Martian

General Information
Martian (natively Malchan [malˠˈʃã] or la-dyon d Malt [lɘˈðjɔ̃θ ˈmalˠt]) is the sole official and national language of the Democratic Republic of Mars (natively Zepúglca Demarcátca d Malt) which became de facto sovereign nation independent from the spacefaring Chile in the year 2351 (Martian Republican Year 0).

As of MRY 125 (2581 C.E.), Martian has 86 million native speakers and approximately 18 million L2 speakers. Martian is one of a handful of descendants from Chilean Spanish, which became a language of science after the fall of many world powers from 2050 to 2130.

Paz la-venefich d to.

Consonants
There are 18 consonant phonemes. Allophones are in parentheses.
 * 1) /p/ and /k/ and /s/ are allophonically voiced intervocalically, while /t/ and /d/ contrast only in that environment.
 * 2) /ð/ is devoiced word-finally or when adjacent to a voiceless consonant.
 * 3) /l/ and /r/ are velarized in the coda.

Vowels
There are 13 vowel phonemes.
 * 1) /e/ and /ɛ/ contrast only in unstressed syllables. In stressed syllables they merge into an archiphoneme /E/ which is realized as [ɛ] before a coda consonant and [e] elsewhere.
 * 2) /ɘ/ is a rarely encountered phoneme which appears in many clitics and a few loanwords, but very seldom elsewhere.

Orthography
The Evese Malchan (Martian Alphabet) is a descendant of the Spanish Latin Alphabet. It contains twenty-three separate characters, eight digraphs, and one separate diacritic.
 * An asent aggo (acute accent) is applied to vowels in syllables that are stressed and not word-finally.

Pronouns
Pronouns (Pronorf)

Articles
The indefinite (na-) and definite (la-) articles take the form of clitics that attact to the first word in a noun phrase with a hyphen.

Demonstratives
These also function as demonstrative pronouns.
 * ex. Et vin solament por nosort. Vo tene acech águ.
 * "This wine is only for us. You have that water."

Verbs
Infinitives are in -al, -el, and -il.

Copula
Sel [ˈsɛlˠ] {ser} -to be (in essence)

Etal [eˈdalˠ] {estar} -to be (in a state)

Examples
Eperal [ebeˈɾalˠ] {esperar} -to hope

Crehel [kɾeˈɛlˠ] {creer} -to believe

Ocuzil [oguˈʑilˠ] {ocurrir} -to happen

Conjunctions
and ("i"), or ("o"), but ("per")

Colors

 * colal [koˈlalˠ]: colors
 * ner [ˈnɛɾˠ]: black
 * vlanc [ˈvlãk]: white
 * zo [ˈʑo]: red
 * luzos [luˈʑos]: pink
 * colora [koloˈɾa]: colored, blush-colored
 * anaranja [anaɾãˈha]: orange
 * êmêrich [ɛmɛˈɾiɕ]: yellow
 * asul [aˈzulˠ]: blue
 * veld [ˈvɛlˠθ]: green
 * vyolet [vjoˈlɛt]: violet, purple
 * mora [moˈɾa]: bruise-colored
 * mazon [maˈʑɔ̃]: dark brown
 * vronsea [vɾɔ̃zɛˈa]: light brown (tan)
 * zuch [ˈʑuɕ]: gray
 * ureclal [uɾɛkˈlalˠ]: gray
 * platea [pladɛˈa]: silver

Family
Family members (Myerf):
 * fêmíli: family
 * par: parents
 * paba/pap: father
 * mama/man: mother
 * nin: children
 * hich: son or daughter
 * epos: spouse
 * hêlman: sibling
 * ti: aunt or uncle
 * prin: cousin
 * sarvin: niblings
 * aveul/veulit: grandparents
 * ñet: grandchildren
 * visaveul: great-grandparents
 * tíaveul/tíveulit: grandaunt/granduncle
 * seur: parents-in-law
 * cuña: siblings-in-law

Days of the Week

 * 1) lun- Monday
 * 2) malt- Tuesday
 * 3) myélcle- Wednesday
 * 4) jeuf- Thursday
 * 5) vyenn- Friday
 * 6) sávdo- Saturday
 * 7) dominñ- Sunday

Months
As the Martian year is about twice as long as Earth's, upon declaring independence, the Darian calendar was adopted.
 * 1) Sachêtáli
 * Dan
 * 1) Carpêcóni
 * 2) Macar
 * 3) Acgáli
 * Cuf
 * Pis
 * Min
 * Áli
 * 1) Mech
 * 2) Táru
 * 3) Zêchaf
 * 4) Chénni
 * 5) Mêtun
 * 6) Cansl
 * 7) Calc
 * 8) Leon
 * Sin
 * Vil
 * 1) Canch
 * 2) Lirf
 * Tul
 * 1) Cálpi
 * 2) Vríchka
 * ex. Today is Monday, Leo 1.
 * Hay e lun, la-sal primer d Leon.

Seasons

 * Primaver: Spring
 * Veran: Summer
 * Oton: Autumn/Fall
 * Invyenn: Winter