Kjaxono language: Difference between revisions

'''Kjaxono''' is a language belonging to the [placeholder?] language family, primarily spoken in [[Xjetjeŋ]] and in small communities across [[Brausia]].  

Kjaxono's consonant inventory of 41 phonemes is typical of other [...] languages, featuring a palatalized distinction in most of it's consonants, and rich employment of uvular sounds.

!Plain

!Palatalized

!Plain

!Palatalized

!Plain

!Palatalized

|m

|mʲ

|n

|ŋ

! rowspan="2" |Plosive

|p

|pʲ

|t

|tʲ

|k

|kʲ

|[[W:Voiceless uvular plosive|q]]

!Voiced

|b

|g

|gʲ

|[[W:Voiced uvular plosive|ɢ]]

!Unvoiced

|t͡s

|t͡sʲ

|k͡x

|k͡xʲ

|[[W:Voiceless uvular affricate|q͡χ]]

!Voiced

!Voiced

|β

|z

|zʲ

|[[W:Voiced uvular fricative|ʁ]]

|l

|ʎ

|[[W:Voiced uvular trill|ʀ]]

!Short

!Long

!Short

!Long

|i  

|i:  

|u  

|u:  

|æ

|e:  

|o  

|o:  

Kjaxono is a decisively agglutinative language, with plentiful fusional and polysynthetic characteristics. Kjaxono, along with other languages of the [...] language family comprise the only example of languages with a morphosyntactic alignment of ''transitive-intransitive'' - with the agent of an intransitive verb being inflected for an intransitive case. This feature is one of the most notorious features of Kjaxono. Otherwise, Kjaxono nouns rather simply decline for only '''2 cases''' - ''transitive'' and ''intransitive,'' as previously stated. In addition, while not explicitely inflected, Kjaxono nouns also have '''2 numbers''' - ''singular'' and ''plural.'' Kjaxano features no grammatical gender and no adjectival agreement of any form.  

In contrast, verbs are by far the most inflecting part of speech in Kjaxono. In some cases, they can represent entire sentences by themselves. Kjaxono verbs are often the epicenter of linguistic research into the language, and verbs in the [...] language family as a whole are generally one of their most known attributes in linguistics as a whole. For a overview, see '''[[Kjaxono language#Verbal system|§6 Verbal System]]''' and [[Kjaxono verbs]].  

|żoxe

|żoxet

|ceb

|ǐŋbe

|kjabǒ

|hamǒcb

|żǒxbe

|ceżt

In Kjaxono, only pronouns are inherently gendered. There are three genders used: ''Kjarelen'', used for Kjarelen species individuals, ''Non-kjarelen'', used for non-kjarelen species individuals, aswell as non sapient animals and animate phenomena and objects, such as rain, cities, and so on, and ''inanimate'', used for inanimate objects. Pronouns in Kjaxono are not differentiated via sex; one differentiates the sex of the noun replaced via said noun's sex being added after the pronoun. Consider the following phrase:

 

The rules for applying the intransitive case for nouns are fairly straightforward. Some speakers of Kjaxono have merged the rules for proper names and inanimate nouns with those from ordinary nouns. This is more common in [insert dialect here], but can be found across [South bellic zone].  

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There are four articles that are used in Kjaxono. They are suffixes that are attached onto the noun directly. Kjaxono has two types of article - the definite and indefinite - which change form slightly based on their plurality or lack of plurality. The articles are notably different from how plurality is marked on nouns. Articles do not changed based on the ending of the nouns of which they mark, occasionally leading to consonant clusters of three to even four consonants.

Verbs are the most complex part of speech in Kjaxono. It is by far the most difficult aspect of Kjaxono for new speakers of the language to learn, due its system-wide irregularity and general difficulty. Oftentimes, conjugation can encode all of the information needed to parse a sentence. The verbal system of Kjaxono has two main ''scales'' - a term roughly corresponding to conjugation used when talking about the Kjaxono languages - and 3 subscales therein. The two main scales are:

 

 

 

 

Kjaxono verbs conjugate for tense, person, aspect, mood, evidentiality, and voice. A feature not present in any other language aside from other languages within the [...] language family is the optional marking of definiteness and or indefiniteness, in regards to person marking. Hard to precisely define, they can mark for extremely specific scenarios with little equivelant in any other language. All together, Kjaxono verbs have by far the most inflection and nuance of any part of speech in Kjaxono.

Due to the complexity of the subject, Kjaxono's verbal system entails [[Kjaxono verbs|its own seperate article]].