Titanian Hafnic

Titanic Hafnic is a language spoken in the state of Hafnia on the moon Titan since the late 25th century.

Classification
Titanic Hafnic is most possibly an isolate Indo-European language, although it makes great use of loanwords. Some people suggest that it is related to Anglic languages (a branch of languages similar to Germanic languages which includes English).

Consonants
/w/ is a relatively frequent approximant sound.

A rare bilabial click /ʘ/ represented by "Q" appears in a handful of words, such as Qeja /ʘɛʃa/ (fish) or Qât /ʘʌt/ (click; name of letter Q).

Special sounds
/ɟ/ does not appear naturally in the standard language, however it can be used to transcribe foreign names, such as Quintus transliterates to G'intus, therefore is pronounced /ɟintʉs/.

/θ/ serves as a replacement for /lz/ in some dialects. Thus, lzurewae (always) is pronounced /θʉrewaɪ/ in those dialects, while the standard language pronounces it as /lzʉrewaɪ/.

/ɣ/ is an obsolete sounds formerly represented by the GX digraph, which was slowly replaced by CX (and later, CH) and thus, /x/. Some old speakers still make use of this digraph.

/œ/ replaced a stressed /ə/ (OE) in some dialects.

/ʀ/ is an allophone of /r/ between two vowels, such as in weraka /wɛʀaka/ (shark).

Alphabet
The Titanian Hafinc Alphabet is composed of 32 letters, of which 26 come directly from the Latin alphabet, 4 are vowel variants (Â; Ê; Ï; Ô) and Ð is a consonant variant of D.

Diphtongs and Digraphs
The letter Û is an archair letter that no longer exists in modern Titanian Hafnic, and was pronounced /ʉ/. It appeared in the word Tû (air), which evolved into Txu.

Verbs
Verbs in Titanic Hafnic always end in a consonant in infinitive. Verbs have a present tense, two past tenses and one future tense. The verbs aren't conjugated based on number, hence why the subject is never omitted. The present and past tenses have affixes such as -ê-, -y- and -a- based on the person.

Nouns
Nouns in Titanian Hafnic have 4 declinations based on genders.

Adjectives
Adjectives in Titanian Hafnic have a comparative form and a superlative form.

Sentence Order
The sentence order is Subject-Verb-Object (SVO), and the adjectives are placed after the noun or pronoun.

Titanian Hafnic lacks articles, however in transcriptions, "the" is identified as "ze" and "a/an" are identified as "ô".

Phrases
Phrase in Titanian Hafnic - phonetic transcription - literal transliteration - translation. Ômpe-brieton cha Titanus, lyns hes planêta anule Saturnus. Ye oeprodê unk Evfnya.

/umpɛ briɪton xa titanʉs, lins ɛs planeta anʉlɛ satʉrnʉs. jɛ əprode ʉnk ɛfnja/

Good came to Titan, moon of planet ringed Saturn. I live in Hafnia.

Welcome to Titan, moon of the ringed planet Saturn. I live in Hafnia.