Qetarch

General information
Qetarch (pronounced [qəʈɑᴙ]) is a language spoken by the warrior class of a space-faring race of the same name.

Consonants
All flaps are (normally) voiceless and slightly aspirated. Laboental fricative /f/ is often pronounced dentolabial. The alveolar sibilant is laminal (like in Basque). Unvoiced consonant can acquire voicedness when inter-vocalically due to he lenition processes, but this is non-phonemical.

Vowels
All vowels are usually spoken with creaky voice, although with long vowels it's permissible to open the glottis a bit more than with the short ones.

Alphabet
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Phonotactics
Qetarch has CV(C) syllable structure, with an obligatory one-consonant onset, one-vowel nucleus (which is also obligatory) and an unobligatory coda (one-consonantal, too). Words are composed of syllabical raher than phonemical units (a feature reflected in the writing system). Each word usually contains one to three sylables (longer words are rare), but these can also be juxtaposed to form longer derived words, although this doesn't influence the inner structure of words.

Grammar
Qetarch uses so-called adjuncts (small, uninflectible words; they can also be called particles) to inflect other words like verbs or substantives (This language doesn't clearly distinguish between nouns and adjectives, so they will be collectively called substantives later in this article). These adjuncts/particles can also be joined into longer forms, thus allowing them to inflect themselves in some way.

Nouns
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Verbs
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Syntax
Qetarch is VOS (or, rather, verb-patient-agent) and strongly head-initial. In an active voice sentence, modal adjunct comes first, then there is a tense/aspect adjunct with the verb. That is then followed by the absolutive subject (or direct object, when transitive). Next come all the indirect objects, with the ergative transitive subject coming at the end.

Vocabulary
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Example text
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