Khēqothu

(Horribly unfinished, please ignore for now)

Classification and Dialects
there are roughly four different dialects of Khēqothu used, split into northern formal, northern informal, southern, and eastern (aka human). for practicality, this article is currently only documenting northern formal.

Consonants
dracofolk (the species that speaks this language natively) cannot make an alveolar plosive except in affricates, so it is only listed in affricates. for humans, it is acceptable to pronounce the ts or dz affricates as plosives.

Phonotactics
(C)(C)V(V)(S)(C) syllables. all words operate under sibilant-coronal harmony, with preference to postalveolar consonants

Nouns
all nouns in Khēqothu are made by taking an adjective word and then putting a noun-marking particle before it. there are many different particles that are used for different purposes, but the most basic are ta (/tsa/), sa (/tʃa/), and shu (/ʃə/). ta and sa are interchangeable, and which one is used is decided by the harmony of the word following it. both are used in the subject or (much more rarely) the direct object of a sentence. shu is used exclusively to indicate directional indirect objects, eg towards x, and only in present tense, but it is still extremely commonly used, because when a sentence has no object, it is used by itself to indicate tense.

in (most dialects of) Khēqothu, adjectives "spiral" around a noun, with each one of a phrase being on the opposite side of the noun from the previous, eg "big, heavy rock" becomes "big rock heavy". in the southern dialect, however, adjectives always come before.

in Khēqothu, tense is not marked in verbs, but in object particles, with 5 different tenses, being distant past, recent past, present, near future, and distant future.

Verbs
adverbs come after verbs

Syntax
all sentences of moods other than imperative are SOV, and between the subject and object phrase, a particle of ru is used to separate them. imperative sentences are SVO, and no separator particles are used.