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The Minaxrican language is a conlang created to allow communication between the different peoples of Minaris without any preference. It is the official language and is the only commonly spoken language there. The children learn it from Pre-K until 7th grade, where both Minaxrican and foreign languages can be learned.

Sentence Structure

Minaxrican is almost entirely positional: The official form is

Action Subject /Adjective /Verb /Adverb/ Direct Object/ Indirect Object /Ablative clause

An example is (in english):

"Man fat throws quickly ball red John Doe in odd manner." Trans (English). "The fat man throws the red ball at John Doe quickly and in an odd manner"

Being Sub. /Adj. /Verb /Pred./ Adj./ Ablative clause

"Ball round is globe Martian in classroom only at 2:00."

Trans (English). "The round ball is a Martian globe in the classroom only at 2:00."

Question

Same as above w/ "?" on end as opposed to ".".

Verbs

Verbs are organized as follows:

Moods: Indicative

      Tenses: Past
              Number: Singular
                    Persons: 1
                             2
                             3
                      Plural
                             1
                             2
                             3
              Present
            Number: Singular
                    Persons: 1
                             2
                             3
                      Plural
                             1
                             2
                             3
              Future
            Number: Singular
                    Persons: 1
                             2
                             3
                      Plural
                             1
                             2
                             3

      Imperative
               Number: Singular
                       Plural

      Subjunctive
           Latin and Romance Language versions

Verb Declining

Indicative

Past: Verb+-ed

Present: Verb

Future: Verb+-fut

      Pres
 1s    ísi- I am
 2s    ísis- You are
 3s    ísist- (S)he is
 1p    ísisti- We are
 2p    ísistis- You (pl) are
 3p    ísistist- They are
      Past      
 1s    ísied- I was
       etc
      Future
 1s    ísifut- I will be
         etc.      

Imperative=Indicative+ -do

ísistdo Be!

Subjunctive= Indicative+ -wi

ísistwi

Letters

Letters only make one sound.

The vowels are:

   A's:

A- long English A

Á- Latin A ('ah')

  E's

E- English "ee" sound

È- Spanish E (eh)

  I's

I- English word "I"

Í- English short "I" (ih)

  O's

O- English word "Oh"

Ō- English "oo", Spanish "U"

  U's

U- English word "you"

ū- The "oo" in English "cook"

ü- Uhh... sound

Consonants: Minaxrican----English

B B/

_ C/

D D/

F F/

G G/

H H/

J J/

L L/

M M/

N N/

P P/

kwa Qu/

R R/

S S/

T T/

V V/

W W/

ks X/

Y Y/

Z Z/

_ ph/

Pronunciation Exceptions

The language is entirely phoenetic.

Punctuation/Symbols

.= period. End of statement

!= end of exclamation/command. Always.

?= end of question

,= comma. Denotes short stop to catch breath

-= interruption/entering an example

()=Parentheses

/=or

+=and

Numbers

Same 0-9 digits in places... 2+2=4, etc...

Chain # words together to make larger ones (no spaces)

English word example

two hundred nine ten 290 dōoCènshünNienDèksèn 290

Words

Look, I cannot make many words at this time. Here are a few:

Minaxrican-------Other Spelling if applicable-----Meaning

-Mínèreèn/(English) Minarian/Either a person from Minaris,of Minaris, or the Minarian's money unit

-Áōksíleü/Spanish) Auxilia/Help

-Sèro/(Spanish) Cero/Zero 0

-ōn/One 1

-dōo/Two 2

-treo/Three 3

-kwátro/ (spanish) cuatro/ four 4

-senko/ (Spanish) cinco/ five 5

-síks/ (English) six/ six 6

-Sèptèn/Seven 7

-Aet/ (English) eight/ eight 8

-Nien/ (English) nine/ nine 9

-Dèksèn/ ten 10

-NienDèksèn/ ninety 90

-Cènshün/ (One)hundred 100

-dōoCènshün/ Two hundred 200

-dōoCènshünNienDèksènAet/ two hundred ninety-eight 298

-Míl/(one) thousand 1000

-MíldōoCènshünNienDèksènAet/ one thousand two hundred ninety-eight 1298

-Bíl/ (one) million

-Tíl/ (one) million

-Trílíl/ (one) trillion

-Kwíl/ (one) quadrillion

-Kwíntel/ (one) quintillion

-Sèntíl/ (one) sextillion

-Sèptíl/ (one) septillion

-Octí/ (one) octrillion

-Noní/ (one) nonillion

-Gígíl/ (one) googol

-Cèntíl/ (one) centillion

-Plōskwa/ plus

-Minōs/ minus

-Mōlís/ Multiplied by

-ánteMōlís/ Divided by

-Ákwedo/ water

-Pirís/ paper

-Fir/ fire

-Rtè/ earth

-Ratè/ planet

-Arís/ air

-Oksígín/ Oxygen

-Hidrogín/ Hydrogen

-Hiliüm/ Helium

-Plant/ plant

-Fōd/ food

-se/ to see

-vísion- vision

-ís/ to be

Sample Sentences

"Sei plant."

I see a plant.

"Seis plant?"

Do you see a plant?

"ísi Cènshün." I am 100 (years old).

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