Hwakahan

The Hwakahan language is a Kithano-Japonic language native to southern Kiton, including the state of Solan-Hwakahan. 60% of its vocabulary is Japonic (kata-kata Nihanikari), with 45% being native Hwakahan and 15% being borrowed from other Kaika languages such as Sakanese. Hwakahan also includes loanwords from Kithanovedic, a.k.a. Kitonese, as well as languages such as the Chinese languages and Malay.

Classification and Dialects
Hwakahan is classified as belonging to the Kithanic branch of the Kithano-Japonic language family. When the pre-Yamato coastal Jomons arrived in Kiton in around 10,000 to 6,000 BCE, they brought with them their proto-Kithano-Japonic from which Hwakahan evolved. It was the court language of the Hwakahan kingdom in the 9th century CE, and a literary language widely held in esteem throughout Kiton in the pre-Sakan era, being known as Classical Hwakahan. This is widely considered to be the purest form of Hwakahan and also the closest Kaika language to proto-Kithano-Japonic.

The language gained a significant body of Sakan and Kithanovedic loanwords after the kingdom was conquered by the Sakans. Upon joining the Kaika Confederacy as the state of Solan-Hwakahan, it started to gain an increasing number of technical Kithanovedic loanwords.

The language consists of several dialects, the prestige dialect being the Kaseu dialect, spoken in the capital of Sola-Hwakahan.

Nouns
Hwakahan nouns are classified into declinables and indeclinables. Words such as tuan (door), keun (you, mister) and kuan (boy, man) have the -n ending removed when attached to a particle such as hwa, ni, hwe, ne, he, to.

Lexicon
tuan door

kuan son

nian daughter

Keun mister

taun, hin sun

toku moon

Example text
''Nara ne nina hwa hwahirahan kanaahikuasiki ta kamulyaan ni ta hak-hak ni samanya ni ari. Hwa hwahipunyasiki tatha kahwrataran ne amahwi ni ahisamu.''