Hardmoks [HRM]
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Tetthinkirl on 3 January 2019
Language type
Engineered Language (Englang)
Place & SpeakersHardmoks is spoken by a population of 1 in the world, (that's me) and it'll probably never gain a second speaker.
Species
Human/humanoid
About Hardmoks
!e rvem vidiharedve id iv'areb edah
Hade beravi di Oderahidu mor e!
[ˈhäˑte peˈräˑji t͡ɕi ʔʌteräˈçiˑt͡sɣ̩ mɔɮ ʔe]
Welcome to the Hardmoks language!
In short: Hardmoks is what happens if Pirahã and Alekano make a baby with disordered speech and no history, as if Pirahã wasn't disordered enough.
A bit longer: Hardmoks is an experiment on the feasibility of doublethink and large homonym inventories in regular speech inspired mostly by the typology of toddler's speech and the linguistics of Genie, with several aspects of early children's speech in general, packed in a more naturalistic and "grownup" shell. For example: there's some simplification of concepts; no colours except light and dark, no genders, no compound words, no rounding, no exceptions to the word order, a very simple morphology and grammar, etc., and overused vocabulary with multiple meanings, for example vidu [jit͡sɣ̩], can be an expression of goodwill, but often gets used in all sorts of contexts involving anything positive. With lots of /ʌ/-s, /ɯ/-s and /ɰ/-s but no /o/-s, /u/-s and /w/-s since there's no rounding in Hardmoks (except allophonically after labial consonants), and a boatload of allophones, Hardmoks will use your day up pronouncing this weird phonology.
And yes, it is almost certain that hypothetical native Hardmoks speakers will mix up their R-s and L-s. Those are allophones in Hardmoks. And no, there's no Softmoks; Hardmoks has nothing to do with either the adjective "hard" nor the surname Mok, but instead comes from the english word "Sandbox"
Also, this is the only conlang I am reasonably fluent in lolDuo pls don't kill me for missing my Klingon lessions
Hade beravi di Oderahidu mor e!
[ˈhäˑte peˈräˑji t͡ɕi ʔʌteräˈçiˑt͡sɣ̩ mɔɮ ʔe]
Welcome to the Hardmoks language!
In short: Hardmoks is what happens if Pirahã and Alekano make a baby with disordered speech and no history, as if Pirahã wasn't disordered enough.
A bit longer: Hardmoks is an experiment on the feasibility of doublethink and large homonym inventories in regular speech inspired mostly by the typology of toddler's speech and the linguistics of Genie, with several aspects of early children's speech in general, packed in a more naturalistic and "grownup" shell. For example: there's some simplification of concepts; no colours except light and dark, no genders, no compound words, no rounding, no exceptions to the word order, a very simple morphology and grammar, etc., and overused vocabulary with multiple meanings, for example vidu [jit͡sɣ̩], can be an expression of goodwill, but often gets used in all sorts of contexts involving anything positive. With lots of /ʌ/-s, /ɯ/-s and /ɰ/-s but no /o/-s, /u/-s and /w/-s since there's no rounding in Hardmoks (except allophonically after labial consonants), and a boatload of allophones, Hardmoks will use your day up pronouncing this weird phonology.
And yes, it is almost certain that hypothetical native Hardmoks speakers will mix up their R-s and L-s. Those are allophones in Hardmoks. And no, there's no Softmoks; Hardmoks has nothing to do with either the adjective "hard" nor the surname Mok, but instead comes from the english word "Sandbox"
Also, this is the only conlang I am reasonably fluent in lol
Sample of Hardmoks[view] Eji gade virgi vir o sene man suredu guserija guvine meru dododo seden gasedu!
A trebuchet can launch several malnourished Gushlis over 300m![view all texts]
A trebuchet can launch several malnourished Gushlis over 300m![view all texts]
Sound samples in Hardmoks
Some sound samples of Hardmoks. Maximum of 6 shown. Click the links to see the full texts.
segure e bol misede guvine el.
School is for chumps.
School is for chumps.
I bolsedo adu doge vil beruge di dija bo gonvogesobu o ide bo o beri geral di o go di seguren, men d...
I understand that you want to use your time on ConWorkShop instead of getting ready to go to school,...
I understand that you want to use your time on ConWorkShop instead of getting ready to go to school,...
Language family relationships
Language treeGadhiatean
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Quondam Gadhiatean
⤷ Modera
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Hardmoks
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Quondam Gadhiatean⤷ Modera
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Hardmoks[view] About GadhiateanA mainly verb-initial strongly prefixing polysynthetic family distinguished by having very few vowels. TPG is currently the dominant language.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Alveolo- palatal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||
| Nasal | m mʲ mˠ | n nʲ nˠ | ɲ | [ŋ]1 | ||||||||
| Plosive | p pʲ pˠ | t tʲ tˠ | k kʲ | |||||||||
| Fricative | s sˠ | ɕ | ç | ʝ̩ | x | ɣ̩ | h | |||||
| Affricate | t͡s t͡sˠ | t͡ɕ | ||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l lˠ | ʎ | ||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɮ | |||||||||||
| Lateral flap | ɺ | |||||||||||
| Approximant | j | ɰ | ||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||
| Flap | ɾ | |||||||||||
- allophone of /n/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i | ɨ | ɯ | |||
| Close-mid | e | |||||
| Mid | ə | |||||
| Open-mid | ʌ | |||||
| Open | a | |||||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Hardmoks. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| HardmoksOrthography | ||||||||||||
| h Hh /h/ | s Ss /s/ | g Gg /k/ | m Mm /m/ | n Nn /n/ | d Dd /t/ | b Bb /p/ | r Rr /ɺ/ | e Ee /ə/ | ve Oo /ʌ/ | i Ii /ɨ/ | vi Uu /ɯ/ | a Aa /a/ |
| ✔ Shown in correct order | ||||||||||||
