Khendan

The Khendu Language, or Khendan, is a language strongly based off of German, and is spoken througout the Khendu Sultanate, as well as the Zaf'Kor province of the Shin'Zari Empire. As of the mid 9th century, it had 45 million native speakers and 20 million more speaking it as their second language. This is because every Khendan who can speak has to be able to read, write and speak both Khendan and Shin'Zarese by the age of 14 to ease communications between the two world superpowers. To see a complete list of Khendan words, see the Khendan Dictionary

Rules and Characteristics
In order to speak Khendan, you have to be able to make the KH sound, which is found in most Khendan words, even if there's no KH. The letters K and GH are pronounced with a very hard pronunciation. The W's are also pronounced as W's, not as V's like in German.

To make a word plural, you add either one of these two suffixes, the D or the T. The D is used after vowels, while the T is used after consonants (Wasert, Gebaud, Monnart, etc.).

There is only one way to make any word (be it noun, verb, adjective, etc.) past tense; the "nt" suffix.

Phonology
Khendan has an alphabet of 22 consonants and 5 vowels with different variations, making a total of 27 letters, though most Khendan speakers use only 26 of them.

Consonants
B Makes the "B" sound in words such as  b ed,  b at or  b all.

CH Makes the "Č" sound as in ch eck, ch ange or ch urn.

D Makes the "D" sound as in d og,  d rive or a dd.

G Makes the "G" sound as in  g ive, do g or  g ame.

H Makes the "H" sound as in  h ow,  h en or w h o.

J Makes the "J" sound as in  J ohn,  j ust or  j ail, but sometimes makes the "Y" sound as in  y es, pa y or  y ak.

K Makes the "K" sound as in  c ase,  c amera or  k ind.

KH Makes the "KH" sound as in Arabic words such as a kh dar, names such as the German composer Ba ch or Hebrew words such as  H annukah.

L Makes the "L" sound as in  l et,  l arge or  l emon.

M Makes the "M" sound as in  m other,  m ake or  m assive.

N Makes the "N" sound as in  n o,  n either or darke n.

P Makes the "P" sound as in  p ay,  p ass or  p rint.

Ñ Makes the "NY" sound as in Spanish names and words such as Mu ñ oz, Nu ñ ez or a ñ os. This letter is rarely used, and often not included in texts and documents about the language. There is only one word with this sound; "Sultañah", the ancient word for "Sultanate" (now "Zultanuk").

R Makes the unrolled "R" sound as in  r ed,  r oll or vi r al.

S Makes the "S" sound as in  s ound,  s y s tem or  s and.

SH Makes the "Š" sound as in  sh ip,  sh ow or  sh ock.

T Makes the "T" sound as in  t ea,  t ip or  t en t.

V Makes the "V" sound as in  v enn diagram,  v endor or  v ase.

W Makes the "W" sound as in  w ater,  w here or  w hy.

F Makes the "F" sound as in  f un,  f ear or  f reak.

Y Makes the "Y" sound as in  y ell,  y odel or  y ellow. This sound is usually done by the J, but exists in words such as Yar (yes).

Z Makes the "Z" sound as in  z epplin,  z ebra or  z oo.

Vowels
A Makes the plain "A" sound as in s a ck.

Ä Makes the "Ä" sound as in pl a in or  a ir.

Å Makes the "AH" sound as in f a r or c a r.

E Makes the plain "E" sound as in  e xcept or  e x e cute.

É Makes the "É" sound as in  e gg or s a ne.

Ë Makes the "EE" sound as in b ee, employ ee or  e at.

I Has 3 sounds; the "I" as in ice, the "I" as in  italic or the "EE" sound as in w ea ve.

O Makes the "O" sound as in  o ther.

Ö Makes the "OH" sound as in z oo.

U Makes the "U" sound as in  u nderstand.

Ü Makes the "YÜ" sound as in the German word Br ü der or the Turkish word T ü rkçe.

Example Words
Hello="Haw"



Goodbye="Tschau"



Thank you="Duk den"



Please="Pläase"



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Example Sentences
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<span style="font-size:15px;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);white-space:pre-wrap;">Us Khendans cannot fall, not even in our enemy's dreams!="Uns Khendant kannikht feaul, nakht'ebelin ansaure dröme d'krägor!"

A ship leaves in the morning="Ahne schiffe bläa in don'more"