How disable hyphenation but keep my hyphenation rules

Question

I have text and my own hyphenation table

\hyphenation{al-a ko-ta mie-ć mu-si}

How do I disable hyphenation and I still use my own hyphenation? I'm not only add hyphenation. I must DELETE all hyphenation and AFTER add my own.

Maybe I must create my own hyphenation file? New definition language?

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article} 
\usepackage{fontspec} 
\usepackage{polyglossia} 
\setotherlanguage{polish} 
\begin{document} 

\hyphenation{al-a ko-ta mie-ć mu-si} 

Tu sa inne zdania i nawet bardzo długaśne. Łojej, Ala żółtego kota mieć musi, a nie żabę.

\end{document}

I compile with xelatex, but my question is for any tex/latex/lualatex etc –

Answer 1

If your language is not Polish, then don't load the language.

Just activate nohyphenation and you're done. In the example, \parbox{0pt} forces TeX to hyphenate as much as possible.

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}

\begin{document}
\hyphenrules{nohyphenation}
\hyphenation{al-a ko-ta mie-ć mu-si}
\lefthyphenmin=1 \righthyphenmin=1

\parbox{0pt}{Tu sa inne zdania i nawet bardzo długaśne.
Łojej, Ala żółtego kota mieć musi, a nie żabę.}

\end{document}

If you need to support other languages, here's the scheme:

\documentclass[a4paper, 12pt]{article}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\usepackage{polyglossia}

\setmainfont{Linux Libertine O} % a font with support for Greek

\setmainlanguage{english}
\setotherlanguage{polish}
\setotherlanguage{greek}

\newenvironment{fantasylanguage}
 {\hyphenrules{nohyphenation}\lefthyphenmin=1 \righthyphenmin=1 }
 {}

\begin{hyphenrules}{nohyphenation}
\hyphenation{al-a ko-ta mie-ć mu-si}
\end{hyphenrules}

\begin{document}

\begin{fantasylanguage}
\parbox{0pt}{\hspace{0pt}Łojej, Ala żółtego kota mieć musi, a nie żabę.}
\end{fantasylanguage}

\medskip

\begin{greek}
θaλb εcπdδ
\end{greek}

\end{document}