Dakanese

Dakanese is an artlang created in 2017 by jretion with the intent of being used in-universe as the official language of the City State of Dakan. Dakanese is a priori with grammar influenced by French, English and Japanese: the 3 languages that they speak decently. In universe, Dakanese in its current form emerged from middle Dakanese ~500 years ago. Whilst not the only spoken language native to Dakan, it is the only official one. Before middle Dakanese, there was old Dakanese which co-existed with other extinct languages such as Yoshralese (a literary language which has gone 500 years without any speakers) and Odmeshic (a poorly-attested language only mentioned in old Dakanese texts along with minimal word lists.)

Classification and Dialects
Dakanese's only known relative is named Shenish and is a minority language in the north of Dakan. The Dakanese government has yet to give official status or protection to the language and the language is slowly losing favour to Dakanese. Speakers of Shenish tend to display an accent when speaking Dakanese where U is said as [u] and UU is said as [ɯᵝ] instead of the standard pronunciations of [ɯᵝ] and [ɯᵝː] respectively.

Phonotactics
Dakanese's syllable structure is CVN, meaning consonant (any consonant save [ŋ]), vowel (or diphthong) and nasal consonant ([m], [n] or [ŋ]). Syllables are also allowed to start with a vowel if they're at the beginning of a word. The syllable following a syllable ending in a nasal consonant may not begin with the same consonant. For example: Yomma wouldn't be allowed, but yomna and yonma are.

Nouns
Nouns are not conjugated with case, number or gender. The role of the noun is determined by which particle is followed by it. For example, the topic marker hom, the nominative particle yekan, the accusative particle mimu or the location particle den.

To indicate possession of a noun by another, you take the object which is owned, add the possessive particle ton and then put the noun which owns said object. For example:

Pronouns
Dakanese uses 4 personal pronouns. They are not marked for number, though should you really need to specify number, simply duplicate the last syllable. For example: choko (I) would become chokoko (We). However, this is uncommon and choko is used to mean both I and We. They're also not marked for case or gender. Like nouns, their roles are determined by the particle which follows it. The personal pronouns are displayed in this table with their corresponding English equivalents. Along with the 4 personal pronouns, there are also 4 demonstrative pronouns. There are also 4 pronouns for location.

Verbs
Verbs have 2 classes and 2 registers: casual and polite. To change a verb from the casual register to the polite register, remove the ending and replace it with the polite ending for the same verb class. These endings are called the "dictionary form".

The tenses of Dakanese
Dakanese are marked for tense and mood. The tenses are past, present, and future. The moods are indicative, conditional, imperative, passive, hypothetical and volitional. Two tables will be below, displaying all possible conjugations. Darker areas which have no text in them are forms which are not possible. To make the negative form of a verb, add amee at the end.

Adjectives
Adjectives work similarly to verbs. However, they are only conjugated in one way: no classes nor registers of politeness. All adjectives finish in ''miki. ''All adjectives are indicative.

Syntax
Dakanese's normal word order is TSOV (Topic, Subject, Object and Verb), although it is possible to change the order around because of the particles being used to indicate roles. The only thing is that the topic must always be first. Take this sentence as an example:"Choko hon, yanka mimu koto-jika yonamamto."This sentence, piece by piece means I [topic], you [object] today-[time] see-[future volitional].