Stradan language

Stradan
stradans linguå
Pronunciation	[stradans li:ŋxəɑ]
Created by	Aaron Penyami
Date	2018
Setting and usage	International auxiliary language
Users	None, still under development
Purpose	Constructed language
Early form	Proto-Stradan
Writing system	Latin; Strada runes
Sources	A posteriori language, with elements of English, Indonesian, Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, German, Spanish, French, Esperanto, Toki Pona, Javanese, Sundanese, Balinese, Poso, Chinese, Malay, Japanese and Ruslandian
Language codes
ISO 639-3	None (mis)

Stradan (stradans linguå) is a constructed international auxiliary language spoken in the micronational area of Strada in Jakarta, Indonesia. It is Germanic-based. It may have similarities with the North Germanic languages. It contains loan-words from different Southeast Asian languages such as Indonesian, Javanese, Sundanese, Posonese and many more. It was created in 2018 as a symbol of the group of micronations located in Strada. The project was started by Aaron Penyami in mid 2018. The project was restarted in late 2018 and early 2019.

History

Stradan was a constructed language created in 2018 as a part of the culture of micronations located in the micronational area of Strada. The original form, Proto-Stradan, was described as "Indonesian as if it was Dutch". It did not have any official grammatic rules and the phonological inventory was based on Dutch. Stradan became an official language with the help of the Pejatenian government. However, a lot of words had been lost, and it never got expanded. Stradan was usually used in multilingual signs only. Some poems were written in Stradan. It was still not used seriously. In late 2018, Penyami got a sudden interest for linguistics, due to his obsession with the Japanese culture and the Japanese language. The project was restarted. It evolved from sounding Dutch-like to sounding Nordic-like.

In early 2019, Stradan had a reform. It had a problem its phonological inventory was confusing for Indonesians. It had to be restarted. Its grammar became a little complex, so it had to be reformed.

Phonology

Vowels

Closed: i; ī, y
Mid: o; ō, ø, æ
Open: a; ā, å

Constants

The following chart shows a complete list of the consonant phonemes of Stradan:

		Labial	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasal		m	n		ɲ	ŋ
Plosive/ affricate	voiceless	p	t	tʃ		k
	voiced	b	d
Fricative	voiceless	f	s			x	h
	voiced	v	z
Trill			r
Approximant	lateral		l
	plain				j	w

• The original list of consonants did not display if Stradan used the voiced alveolar trill /r/. This could be any other IPA-symbol that resembles an ⟨r⟩.
• The original list of consonants did not display if the labialized velar approximant was voiceless (/ʍ/) or voiced (/w/).

Grammar

The word order of Stradan is SVO, it places the adjective before the noun and the possessor before the possesse. In some other varieties of Stradan, the word order is SOV and noun adjective.

Pronouns

Personal pronouns

Person	Nominative	Genitive
1st	ic	ices
2nd	jij	jijes
3rd masculine	yasst	yasstes
3rd feminine	yanst	yanstes
3rd neuter	at	ates
1st plural	ynks
2nd plural	fyrd
3rd plural	sare