Amalgam is the interstellar common vocal language, part organic creole and part deliberately constructed auxiliary language. Its origins and nature are as a melting pot of mutually communicable sounds across the
USSC member species able to generate or effectively replicate laryngeal phonetics (being
humans,
shyxaure,
skae, and later
rimor.)
Structure
Morphology
Amalgam uses an extensive set of affixes to signify the role of a given word in the sentence, in addition to aspects like tense and plurality.
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Syntax
One of the more useful facets of the language is its free word order. Rather than adhering to one particular progression of words that may be unintuitive to some beings, Amalgam leverages affixes extensively so that any speaker or writer can arrange words in the way that make intuitive sense to them while using affixes to denote the elements of the sentence for cross-cultural clarity.
Composition
Pronouns
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Essential Vocabulary
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History
Interestingly, amalgam was built from "both ends," in a sense. During the period immediately following USSC contact with the
Shyxaure-Ziirpu Alliance, linguists from all four species worked together to create a usable official index of trans-species phonetics, though unfortunately
ziirpu are not able to replicate these sounds on their own. Meanwhile, however, civilians quickly developed a very similar lexicon of sounds through trial and error in everyday context. As the linguist teams encountered this more frequently in daily life, they opted to shift their focus from fully constructing a mutual tongue to standardizing and streamlining the variations of the auxlang that was already evolving naturally. After many decades of this process, amalgam was recognized by linguists across the stars and established as the official language of the USSC.
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