Shawafian

Shawafian, otherwise known as Saslah' H'tkut'k'aesla ([sɑ̥ɬɑ̥ʔ ʔʹʰtʰkɯ̥tʼkʼæ̥ɬɑ̥]) by its native speakers, is a language isolate spoken by the creatures of Shawaf, a civilization that was in very close proximity to the Empire of Yageeb.

The language has a wide range of moods/aspects, unlike most other Pencilcosmos languages.

Classification and Dialects
Shawafian, as it is in relatively close proximity to The Pencil Language, has inherited some agglutinative traits of The Pencil Language, including nesting subordinate clauses within the same word and sometimes gluing adjectives onto their head. However, the language remains relatively analytic.

Consonants
* The sound cannot be accurately transcribed via the IPA. It sounds roughly like a cough. For the sake of simplicity, it will be referred to as a glottal ejective (although such sounds do not exist).

Phonotactics

 * The glottal ejective can never come before a vowel.
 * The glottal ejective becomes a glottal stop word-finally.

Sound Changes

 * Unaspirated consonants tend to get aspirated when close to the glottal ejective
 * q > χ (unpredictable)
 * kq > kx or χ

Writing System
Shawafian uses a modified version of the Pencil Language script.

Nouns
Nouns have 3 cases: nominative and accusative.

Verbs
Adverbs are formed by gluing the adjective onto the verb.