Kjaxono language

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

Phonology

Consonants

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.

		Bilabial		Alveolar		Velar		Uvular	Glottal
		Plain	Palatalized	Plain	Palatalized	Plain	Palatalized
Nasal		m	mʲ	n	nʲ	ŋ	ŋʲ	ɴ
Plosive	Unvoiced	p	pʲ	t	tʲ	k	kʲ	q	ʔ
	Voiced	b		d		g	gʲ	ɢ
Affricate	Unvoiced			ts	tsʲ	kx	kxʲ	qχ
	Voiced	bβ		dz	dzʲ
Fricative	Unvoiced			s	sʲ	x	xʲ	χ	h
	Voiced	β		z	zʲ			ʁ
Liquid				l	ʎ			ʀ

Grammar

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. Kjaxono has three grammatical genders, of which are called types by Kjaxono linguists. These genders are usually referred to as Kjai, Umare, and Rubin. Kjaxono has six articles, accounting for definiteness/indefiniteness, and Kjaxono's three genders. These articles are suffixed onto the end of the nouns they modify.

Verbs are the most inflecting part of speech in Kjaxono - see §6 Verbal System.

Pronouns

Personal pronouns in Kjaxono

	Singular					Plural
	First-person	Second-person	Third-person			First-person	Second-person	Third-person
			Kjai	Umare	Rubin			Kjai	Umare	Rubin
Transitive	ce	ǐŋce	kjace	hamce	żoxe	cet	ǐŋcet	kjacet	hamcet	żoxet
Intransitive	ceb	ǐŋbe	kjabǒ	hamǒcb	żǒxbe	ceżt	ǐŋbet	kjabǒt	hamǒżt	żǒxbet

Nouns

As stated previously, Kjaxono nouns inflect for two cases, and 2 numbers. The transitive case is unmarked, and marks the subject of a transitive verb. The intransitive case is marked by the suffix -(ie)b. The intransitive case marks the subject of an intransitive verb. The intransitive cases sometimes takes slightly different marking based on the final phonemes of the noun it is attached to. Generally, if the noun ends with 2 or less consonants, only -b is attached; otherwise, -ieb is attached. Grammatical number is marked via the addition of a numeral one or two after the noun, for the singular and plural numbers respectively. In addition, if an article is attached onto a noun, the noun changes slightly to agree with the article's gender.

Verbal system

See main article: Kjaxono verbs

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 consists of 5 different conjugations, which are called systems by most linguists. Kjaxono verbs conjugate for 4 tenses - past, hodiernal, present, and future - 7 aspects - perfective, momentane, prospective, imperfective, progressive, stative, and gnomic - 4 moods - indicative, conditional, potential, and hypothetical - 3 types of evidence - direct, reportative, and assumptive - and 3 voices - active, middle, and passive. 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, see the main Kjaxono verb article) within Kjaxono systems. Hard to 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 its own seperate article.