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General Information
Hwayi (Haqi: 魂语，Hagu: 화이 IPA: /xwa.i/) is an agglutinative language spoken around the Changbai mountains. It is considered stable, with a population of about ~2,275,000 speakers. The language is vastly innovative, with much assimiation from middle chinese and korean. Thus, recent loanwords may conjugate differently compared to naturalized and natural lexicon.

The Hwa People
The Hwa people have historically occupied much territory, from Primorsky Krai to Shandong.

Since the formation of North Korea, it is likely that the population in North Korea has assimilated with North Korean culture and philosophy. Thus, the population may no longer speak Hwayi.

Consonants
Non phonemic consonants and vowels are in brackets.
 * [r] may shorten to [ɾ], as long as [r] is not the initial consonant.
 * The retroflex series does not occur before the vowel /i/.
 * Coda nasals differs depending on the initial consonant of the next syllable.
 * Before bilabial consonants: /m/
 * Before coronal consonants, glottal consonants, and if the consonant is absent : /n/
 * Before velar consonants: /ŋ/

Vowels

 * Hwayi does not employ phonemic vowel or consonant length.

Vowel Clusters
In Hwayi, many vowel clusters may consist of a Pure Vowel/Diphthong and a glide. This is a list showing the possible vowel-final combinations.
 * /ɥ/ may only succeed an Alveolo-Palatal consonant.
 * Bilabial consonant can not occur before /ɥ/ or /w/.

*Analyzation of /ɯ/ after Certain Consonants

 * [ɯ] is often devoiced after velar consonants.

Phonotactics

 * The language's main syllable structure is (C)N(F)
 * C = Consonant
 * N = Nucleus
 * F = Alveolar Nasal

Writing System
This language usually uses a heavily modified variation of the Korean alphabet in conjunction with a Chinese- based logography. The alphabet shown here is similar to the actual alphabet.

Grammar
The language is SOV. Hwayi is traditionally suffixing.

Noun phrases
Nouns in Hwayi lack grammatical gender, articles and number. In order to show number and definiteness, the noun must be bound to a classifier.

Example 1: 애태왜猫 Etewemani, literally one [classifier- small animate] cat.

Example 2: 사왜猫 Sawemani, literally this [classifier- small animate] cat.

Hwayi also uses postpositions to show spatial relations.

Demonstratives
Hwayi has a four-way distinction between demonstratives, similar to the Northern Sami languages. (Proximal, Mesioproximal, Mesiodistal and Distal.)

Classifiers
Classifiers, or counter words, work similarly to Chinese, and must be bound to a noun if one were to describe number or definiteness. Here is a list of the classifiers which are commonly used.

Quantity
Many classifiers may be used to demonstrate quantity. They mostly descend from the morphemes for much, xyo, and the morpheme for less, gata.

Pronouns
The pronouns in Hwayi act similarly to Japanese pronouns; they aren't true pronouns. They act more similarly to regular nouns, and are sometimes derived from nouns. Also like Japanese, they are an open word class.

Reflexives
The only reflexive in Hwayi is ki, a suffix. It is a loanword from middle chinese. To use it, it is added as a suffix to a pronoun or a noun.

Example: ''Me eke taohan-ú twe meki-e. Lit: I(NOM) one [classifier]cup[ACC] give(Present) I[reflexive][DAT].''

Adjectives
Adjectives must occur before a noun.

Verbs
The verb system of Hwayi is somewhat complex.

Mood

 * 1) Indicative - States a fact witnessed by the speaker, in some direct form. -"I feel/hear/see/etc. him running"
 * 2) Conditional - Indicates that an action depends on another event -"If the motion of his legs is propelling him forward, he is running"
 * 3) Jussive - Indicates a desire -"I want to run"
 * 4) Imperative - Indicates a command -"You must run"
 * 5) Inferrential - Indicates a fact not witnessed directly by the speaker. -"John Doe told me he was running"
 * 6) Subjunctive - Indicates a thought -"I am thinking that he is running"
 * 7) Epistemic- Indicates a statement deemed possible

Aspect
Auxillary Verbs

Similarily to many other inflecting languages, the auxillary verb in Hwayi is irregularily conjugated.

Particles
The particle "iye" is used to form yes/no questions.

Example text
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.