Imqorášə

Classification and Dialects
Imqorášə (formerly Imqorásjə and colloquially Imqə̀aš or Imqə̀š) is a language isolate spoken in the Caucuses. It is the result of people from Europe, Africa, and America immigrating to the Caucuses to create an independent country (for religious reasons) and their culture and language merging overtime. There are minor dialectal differences between the language spoken in the western and eastern parts.

Vowels
Phonemes in parenthesis were brought into the language through loanwords but are now integral to the language. Phonemes in brackets are today rarely distinguished.

Vowel Suprasegmentals
All occurrences of /ɪ/ can be realized as /ɜ/ or /i/, and all occurrences of /ə/ can be realized as /u/, /o/, /a/, /ɑ/, /ɒ/, or /ɔ/.

There are 2 tones (ex. on /a/): normal (/a/) and rising-falling (/a᷈/). The latter only occurs on /a/, /ɜ/, /i/, /o/, and /u/. All vowels can also be creaky voiced (/a̰/).

Nasalization occurs sometimes and /ɑ̆~ɒ̆~ɔ̆/ is the vowel most prone.

Phonotactics
Many phonemes vary depending on their context in a given word:


 * 1) When /k/ and /g/ are final, they have no audible release (/k˺/ and /g˺/).
 * 2) When /t/ and /d/ are final, they are dental with no audible release (/t̪˺/ and /d̪˺/).
 * 3) When /q/ appears final, it is a glottal stop with no audible release (/ʔ˺/).
 * 4) Final long vowels are followed by an implied glottal stop with no audible release follow (ex: /kaːʔ˺/).
 * 5) All above phonemes sometimes may be followed by some audible release.
 * 6) /ʀ/ is almost always a voiced uvular approximant, except when it appears initial and/or directly precedes /a/ and is then sometimes a trill.
 * 7) When /l/ appears final, it is /w/, except when it directly follows /u/ or /o/, and is then often /oɔ/, or when it directly follows /a/, and is then sometimes /aɑ/.
 * 8) Postalveolar consonant clusters are often realized more retroflex, ex.: "pə́ščar" (/ˈpəʂʈʂaʀ/).

Allowable syllable structures: CV, VC, CVC. Geminated consonants are considered as two consecutive consonants.

Introduction
There are 3 genders, typically determined by the first consonant (usually the first phoneme) of a root. Usually, if the first consonant is a stop, the root is masculine, if it is a fricative, the root is feminine, and if it is anything else, the root is neuter (in this case /ɬ/ and /ɮ/ are actually categorized as stops). If the first phoneme in a root is a vowel, the root is usually neuter, but many times it is irregular. Often in conjugations, /t/ and /d/ assimilate to /s/ and /z/.

Informally, conditional mood is used for simple past tense and potential mood is used for simple future tense.

Example text
Much of the language's change over the years and its journey to becoming the "brutally vulgar" language it is today is due to the extreme popularity (and subsequent controversy) of the 1988 self-titled debut release by the Imqorasian rap group Awgat Shangchat (loosely translated as "Faulty Avant-Garde"). The album flew in the face of a more modest, upstanding culture with purposefully extreme lyrics mocking the traditions and old moral values of the time. The incredible popularity the album amassed cemented its lyrical style into the language. Such unbelievably vulgar expressions as, sor oəbafádde váži ózo àneo