Salofang

Salofang /saloʊ'feɪŋ/, known natively as Selhofeng /saɬoʊ'ɸɑŋ/, is a language spoken on the Salofang penninsula. It is an official language in Nympira and Auldrhet, as well as a minority language in Monitland. It is also spoken as a native language in Djursco, but is not recognized. It is spoken by around 16 million people on the penninsula, as well by 4 million around the world, and as a second language.

Classification and Dialects
Salofang has 4 major dialects: southern, which the standard language is based off of, coastal, northern, and djurscoan. The southern dialect has the most speakers and is spoken in most of Nympira and the eastern part of Auldrhet. The coastal dialect is spoken on the west coast of Auldrhet and northern Nympira. The northern dialect is spoken in extreme northern Auldrhet and the areas of Monitland around the border. The Djurscoan dialect is spoken in the eastern part of the island nation of Djursco. All of the dialects except for Djurscoan are very similar. Djurscoan is mutually intelligable with the others but has major differences with vocabulary and pronounciation.

Consonants
Salofang has an unusual consonant invetory, having a voiceless w and ɾ, and having the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative ɬ. It also hs the bilabial fricatives, ɸ and β, but uses them in the same way as f and v in other languages.

Phonotactics
Salofang has a CCVCC syllable structure.

Initial Consonants: All except for nasals

Final Consonants: All

Consonant Clusters: Plosives can form clusters with other plosives. Besides this, only sonorants and obstruents, or vice-versa, can cluster.

Writing System
* H is used in letter combinations for seperate sounds, but not as an individual letter.

Nouns
Nouns decline according to case, number, and definitness.

Cases:

Salofang nouns decline to 3 cases: Genitive, Locative, and instrumental. A suffix is added to the noun - -eun for genitive, -eta for locative, and -egha for instrumental.

Definitness:

Nouns that are definite have the suffix -et at the end. Indefinite nouns are not declined.

Number:

Plural nouns have a t added to the end. If the letter at the end of the noun is an obstruent that is not a plosive, the t will be pronounced as it's own syllable with no spelling changes.

Verbs
Most verbs end with o.

Conjugations:

Salofang has 3 tenses: Past, present, and future. Verbs are also conjugated differently if they are plural in the past and present, but not future. Salofang verbs are conjugated by person too.

The endings in this table are added to the verb after the o. If the verb doesn't end in an o, an o will be added before the suffix.

Example: To walk - Eipto

I walked in the park - Es otelaet rha eiptoel

He walked in the park - Tse otelaet rha eiptoep

You (Plural) are walking in the park - Sat otelaet rha eiptoit

I walk in the park (many times) - Es otelaet rha eiptola

Syntax
Salofang has an SOV word order.

Adjectives come after the noun.

Salofang uses postpositions.

Lexicon
Pronouns:

I - Es

You -Sa

He/She/It-Tse

We - Essa

You (Plural) - Sat

They - Tset

Me - Lhes

You - Lhisa

Him/Her/It - Lhitse

Us - Lhessa

You (Plural) - Lhisat

Them - Lhitset

Example text
Universal decleration of human rights/Ghezazho Krhasaeun vwoudjhan greafng

Glebakt ferhktat greaf swerl ewkal akh whizan tsukit til burn alopt. Tset zhamn laoko casteg yjmn rhalhanj vuscugh akh munyt djhegopt akh gre gre vwa dugweng aultcopt unur.

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.