Boghash

Boghash is a language spoken by the people of Boghash, or Boghash-iri ('iri' means 'people, nation'), one of several peoples inhabiting the island of Munnaya. They're a strongly military nation, and their belief system is centered about the element of fire, and that maight be one of the reasons why they have built their main city in a crater of an extinct volcano.

Classification and Dialects
There are two main dialects (or, rather, modes of speech), these being the Rraki-lana, lit. 'hard-speech', and Enqu-lana (lit. 'soft-speech'). The first one is spoken mainly in the northern parts of their lands, as well as rural areas and in and out of the City of Boghash. The other dialect is used everywhere else.

There are several differences between the two, phonological, but also syntactical and grammatical.

Distinctly from those, there are also so-called 'speech modes': Informal, Formal and Book. The Formal mode is used in presence of people with high social status or with strangers, and it uses a somewhat limited set of grammatical forms; The Book mode, as the name suggests, is used only in tales, writings and religious texts; it's the most ancient one, preserving many properties of the older stages of the language's development.

Vowels
There is no length distinction.

Stress patterns depend on several conditions.

Diphthongs are formed with a non-close vowel + a close vowel with the same roudness, that is, an a might be joined to an i, but not an ü.

Consonants
Boghash consonants show a very interestnig distinction between so-called heavy and light consonants. Every word must be 'balanced', that is, the first and final syllable(s) must have exactly the same weight; that causes some sound changes.

Nouns
Nouns have 4 numbers (Singular, Dual, Paucal, Plural), 12 cases (Nominative, Absolutive, Ablative, Locative, Dative, Distributive, Instrumental, Comitative, Possessed, Privative, Adjectival/Equative, Adverbial/Essive), 5 classes (Fire/holy things, Masculine, Feminine, Neuter/mixed, Abstractions/uncountables), as well as two (in some cases, even 3) states of Formality. They are declined in a strongly fusional way, with the ending part changing. There are several declensions. Definitness is marked via the use of 'short demonstratives', corresponding to articles.

First declension
Only Fire and Masculine classes inflect according to this declension.

Second declension
The Second decl. encompasses mostly Feminine class.

Third declension
This declension covers some Masculine and Neuter class nouns.

Fourth declension
There are words from all classes that fit into this declension.

Fifth declension
This one has some Neuter and Abstract class words.

Sixth declension
This declension actually consists of several sub-declensions for some more rare inflection patterns.

Adjectives and adverbs
Boghash has several ways of describing words. There are relatively few 'pure adjectives'; mostly, nouns in the Adjectival/Equative case or participles are used in this position.

The adverbs follow the same pattern.

Verbs
The verbs are much more complicated than nouns, and they are inflected in a rather agglutinative manner. They have 5 tenses (Present, Near Past, Remote Past, Near Future, Remote Future), 3 semi-tenses (Perfect, Imperfect, Prospective), 4 aspects (Indefinite, Durative, Momentane, Repetitive) and 14 moods. They also agree with the object (the subject in intransitive clauses) in Person, Number, and, sometimes, also Class and Formality. There are also 3 voices: Active, Passive and Antipassive.

Every (nearly) Boghash verb has 4 stem forms: Affirmative and Negative, both in Main and Subordinate variants.

Syntax
Boghash is rather head-final, so it prefers OSV (at least in the Hard Speech) word order, as well as postpositions to prepositions. Adjectives stand before nouns they modify rather than after them (the same applies to adverbs).