Itarakoské

Itarakoské is a language, or more accurately a dialect continuum, which is spoken by the Tarakasane people.

Language Name
The name 'Itarakoské' literally means 'The Splendid Language', from i- (definite prefix), -tarak- 'splendid, brilliant' and -koské 'language'.

Word Order
Itarakoské is a strongly head-final language; adjectives precede the nouns, and adverbs the verbs, that they describe.

While the use of nominative and accusative cases means that in spoken Itarakoské there is a much more fluid word order, written Itarakoské is almost always written in an SOV word order.

The most common exceptions to this rule appears to be in a group of what are called 'short verbs', such as ade 'to be', kumé 'to have' and süde 'to become', which are mostly written in SVO order.

Numerals
Besides large numbers, there are only five numbers in Itarakoské:

These five numbers are then multiplied and declined to give the other numbers. For example, 6 to 10 are as follows: