Ulatjut

Classification and Dialects
Ulatjut ([ulɒtʃut], lit. 'art of talking', anglicised as Ullochut) is one of several Elven Languages in the Lost Heir Universe. It is chiefly spoken by Twilight elves in the eastern Mantut Empire. The language uses both nominative-accusative alignment, mostly statements, commands etc., and ergative-absolutive, mostly questions, requests etc., though it would be grammatically correct to pose a question with nominative-absolutive, as well as a statement in nominative-accusative. Its nouns, pronouns and adjectives carry one of four genders, sentient, animate, inanimate, conceptual.

Modifiers
There are two modifiers used to signal hard and soft pronunciation. Hard is signalled by a  preceding the word, whilst soft is signalled by a  preceding. If no modifier precedes the word, the word is pronounced hard if the first (semi-)vowel is /j, i, e/ and soft when the first (semi-)vowel is /w, u, o, a/.

Phonotactics
A word can only contain either hard or soft sounds. The syllable structure is as follows.

(C)(R)V(R)(C)

Whereby C = Obstruent, R = Resonant / Semi-Vowel, V = Vowel.

Writing System
Soft /n/ is written as , whilst hard /n/ is written as . The Pronunciation Alternatives in brackets do not exist across all dialects, whilst the rest are consistently used by nigh every speaker. Furthermore, there is no dialect where the phonemic contrast is lost, thus there is no dialect that pronounces both /x/ and /s/ as [ʃ] when soft and preceding /j, i/. There are, however, a plethora of dialects, that neutralise soft and hard /n/ before velars to [ŋ], though, since this only happens phoneme-internally, no phonemic contrast is lost.