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The Melanian language (Spanish: Melanés, Portuguese: Melanês, French: Melanais, Melanian: Meilanja) was a language used by international/intercontinental traders to make communication easier when trading, and has become the official language of the Melanian people.

 Features 

- Melanian is an agglutinative language.

- First person and second person pronouns depend on gender and age.

- There are __ noun cases.

- The only irregular verb in Melanian is the verb to be (sea).

- Influences include Finnish; Latin; and Austro-Asiatic, Nordic, and Germanic languages.

=Sounds=

Consonants
Coarticulated Consonants

is represented by the letter W.

Single Consonants

is represented by the letter P.

is represented by the letter Б.

is represented by the letter B.

is represented by the letter T.

is represented by the letter Ŧ.

is represented by the letter D.

is represented by the letter K.

is represented by the letter Ǩ.

is represented by the letter G.

is represented by the letter M.

is represented by the letter N.

is represented by the letter R.

is represented by the letter Ź.

is represented by the letter Đ.

is represented by the letter Č.

is represented by the letter Ć.

is represented by the letter F.

is represented by the letter V.

is represented by the letter S.

is represented by the letter Z.

is represented by the letter H.

is represented by the letter J.

is represented by the letter L.

Consonant Clusters

is represented by the letters DZ.

is represented by the letters CH.

is represented by the letters DČ.

Vowels
There are nine vowels in Melanian: A, Ä, E, Ę, I, O, Ö, U, and Y.

A :

Ä :

E :

Ę :

I :

O :

Ö :

U :

Y :

The vowel harmony rule is utilized in the Melanian language. This means that back vowels and front vowels cannot appear in the same word, with the exception of compound words. Neutral vowels, however, are allowed to appear in words with either vowel group.

Back vowels: A, Ę, O, U

Front vowels: Ä, Ö, Y

Neutral vowels: E, I

Phonotactics
1. Plosives 2. Nasals 3. Trills 4. Affricates 5. Fricatives 6. Approximant 7. Lateral Approximant 8. W
 * 1) Before/after a vowel
 * 2) Before a trill
 * 3) Before approximants and lateral approximants
 * 1) Before/after a vowel
 * 2) Before affricates
 * 3) After fricatives
 * 4) Before approximants
 * 1) Before/after a vowel
 * 2) After plosives
 * 3) Before/after fricatives
 * 4) Before an approximant
 * 1) Before/after a vowel
 * 2) After nasals
 * 3) After trills
 * 1) Before/after a vowel
 * 2) Before a trill (except glottal fricatives)
 * 3) Before approximants and lateral approximants (except glottal fricatives)
 * 1) Before/after a vowel
 * 2) After plosives
 * 3) After nasals
 * 4) After a trill
 * 5) After fricatives
 * 1) Before/after a vowel
 * 2) After plosives
 * 3) After fricatives
 * 4) Before an approximant
 * 1) Before/after a vowel
 * 2) After plosives
 * 3) After fricatives

=Grammar=

Nouns
Melanian nouns have no gender, and are declined using noun cases. Because of this, preposition use is very limited, and it may be confusing to determine the way a noun functions in a sentence if more than one noun is involved.

Articles
Nouns can be indicated as indefinite using the indefinite article löi if the noun is singular, or ran if the noun is plural (in English, a is an indefinite article). Example: löi misa - a table, ran misai - (many) tables

Nouns can be indicated as definite using the definite article den is the noun is singular, or dei if the noun is plural (in English, the is a definite article). Example: den misa - the table, dei misai - the tables