Itarakoské

Itarakoské is a language, or more accurately a dialect continuum, which is spoken by the Tarakasane people.

Language Name
The name 'Itarakoské' literally means 'The Splendid Language', from i- (definite prefix), -tarak- 'splendid, brilliant' and -koské 'language'.

Word Order
Itarakoské is a strongly head-final language; adjectives precede the nouns, and adverbs the verbs, that they describe.

While the use of nominative and accusative cases means that in spoken Itarakoské there is a much more fluid word order, written Itarakoské is almost always written in an SOV word order.

The most common exceptions to this rule appears to be in a group of what are called 'short verbs', such as ade 'to be', kume 'to have' and sode 'to become', which are mostly written in SVO order.