Abashe

General information
Abashe is a language isolate spoken in the outskirts of the Shinsali Republic. It is generally classified agglutinative or polysynthetic and has some fusional tendences.

Consonants

 * Consonant gemination is contrastive inter- and post-vocalically across morpheme boundaries and less often in root words

Vowels

 * There are two diphthongs /ai/ and /au/
 * Any other sequences of two vowels is pronounced with hiatus
 * If ai, au, eu, iu, and ei are pronounced in hiatus, the first vowel in the sequence is written with diaresis.

Allophony

 * /n/ assimilates in place: becoming [ɲ] before palatal consonants and [ŋ] before velar consonants
 * /m/, in contrast, does not assimilate
 * /ɓ/ and /ɗ/ are realized as [b] and [d], respectively, word-finally and before other consonants
 * The cluster /ɓɗ/, which appears across morpheme boundaries or intervocalically, is realized as [bd]
 * Palatal-velar assimilation occurs, meaning if a palatal consonants precedes a velar consonant, it will become velar and vice versa. For example, /xc/ is realized as [çc] and /ck/ is realised as [kk].
 * /ʎ/ is realised as [l] before alveolar and post-alveolar consonants and as [ɫ] before velar consonants
 * Geminate /t͡ʃ/ is realised as [t͡ʃ:], never [t͡:ʃ]
 * The cluster /tʃ/ is contrastive with /t͡ʃ/ across morpheme boundaries

Nouns
Nouns in Abashe belong to one of 14 noun classes and take on multiple suffixes, including number, demonstratives, locatives, postpositionals, possessives, derivational morphemes, diminuitives, and augmentatives. However, objective nouns are often suffixed onto the verb itself along with their respective suffixes. There are some verbal paradigms which allow both a subject and object noun to be suffixed onto the verb root, but these are rare. There are no verb roots which allow an indirect object to be suffixed onto the verb root.

Noun class
In Abashe, nouns are arranged into a number of classes. Noun class is not apparent on noun other than from its semantic meaning. The endings listed in the thwird column are suffixes used in various types of agreement, such as with adjectives or postpositions.

Syntax
Abashe is an exclusively suffixing polysynthetic agglutinative language. The language is highly inflected and occasionally exhibits some aspects of a fusional language. It most-often follows SOV word order, but word order is higly flexible.