Kjaxono language

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Kjaxono is a language belonging to the [placeholder?] language family, mainly spoken in [South Bellic Zone].

Etymology

History

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 n ŋ ŋʲ ɴ
Plosive Unvoiced p t k q ʔ
Voiced b d g ɢ
Affricate Unvoiced ts tsʲ kx kxʲ
Voiced dz dzʲ
Fricative Unvoiced s x χ h
Voiced β z ʁ
Liquid l ʎ ʀ

Vowels

Allophony

Orthography

Grammar

Pronouns

Nouns

Verbal system

See main article: Kjaxono verbs

Verbs are by far 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.

Verb structure

Definiteness

Syntax

Word order

Lexicon

Examples