Qupata

General information
Qupata [qu.pa.ˈta], also known as Qupat [qu.ˈpat], is the sacred language of the Qupasan tribe, inhabiting the land borders of the Taiwanese peninsula and also some parts of the Philippines. It is an agglutinative language which uses Austronesian alignment, four noun classes and aspect-trigger-voice-mood relations, all which are common features shared with. Its standardized form, Kupatu, is one of the official languages of its tribe, along with Tagalog and Taiwanese Hokkien, a closely-related dialect of Chinese also spoken in Taiwan.

Qupata is closely related to Philippine languages (Tagalog, Cebuano, Bikol, etc.), and more distantly to other Austronesian languages such as Formosan languages (Amis and Atayal), Indonesian, Malay, Polynesian languages (Hawaiian and Māori), Malagasy and many more.

Inspiration
When I made that language, it was inspired by these language families:

Basically, I kind of like every Asian language I know, and as always, draw inspiration from them.
 * Austronesian (e.g. Indonesian, Tagalog, Paiwan)
 * Austroasiatic (e.g. Vietnamese, Nicobarese languages)
 * Bantu (e.g. Swahili, Zulu, Xhosa)
 * Tibeto-Burman (e.g. Tibetan, Burmese)
 * Tai-Kaidai (e.g. Thai, Lao, Khmer)
 * Koreanic (Jeju, Korean)

The Qupasan tribe
The word 'Qupata' is derived from the Tagalog word 'gubat', meaning forest. The tribe of the people (which are called Qupasan), mostly live in forests or taigas, and Tagalog-speaking missionaries thus coined that name. The Qupasan tribe were found in 1746 in Taiwan, when a sudden shortage of food changed some of the people's lives.

Until the death of Sapid
In ancient times, in the poor areas of Taiwan, there lived a village called Huebuk (Taiwanese: 火木 hué bák), where famines, contracts and inequalities are flourished. However, one day came the birth of the Janitor (kawas-et), where he made the first boy made into existence, in which he is named Sapid. Time passed, and the boy immediately grew up from child to manhood, who developed his life to farming (mainly pigs (vavuyak)). One day, in a terrible storm, the devil (musma) tried to trick him to death. Sapid then finally became the governor of the Qupasan wars. Realising that the laws were contracted and unequal, he asked for the Helper (mupa tu) to give the involuntary and fixed laws and forces. The Helper than gave him a drift of pigs, in which the involuntary forces deliberately broke away from the winning of Malaysia. The Huebuk was finally bombed and deported.

The age of freedom
Finally, freed from the yoke of their masters, they found themselves a new refuge - a tropical island, spread around the Great Lake in the eastern part of Taiwan. Despite the short description, these events lasted for about seven months.

Phonology & orthography
Qupata uses a modified version of the Devanagari script (commonly used in Sanskrit, Hindi, Marathi and other Indian languages). Some letters have been modified in order to satisfy the phonology of the language e.g. ख being used for fricative /χ/ instead of aspirated stop /kʰ/, and some letters have a nuqta placed on them in order to do it as well e.g. क़ for /q/.

Vowels
The vowel orthography are displayed in order: (Kapari letter/Kapari sign (with क)/Kapari romanization)

Syllable structure
Native Qupata words follow an agglutinative (C)(S)V((C)C) structure, where C is a consonant, S is a semivowel /j w/ and V is a vowel.

Stress
Stress accent on Qupata words is generally fixed into the final syllable, a property that it shares with other Eastern Formosan languages. As follows, the Qupasan stress rule can be exemplified as: V → V[+stress] / _((C)C)# However, despite this rule, the following constraints apply:


 * Proper nouns and loanwords always retain their original stress from the borrowed language e.g.
 * गरेज् (garêz) 'garage' /ˈɡa.ɹɛz/, चौहन्  (Cohan) Johanne /ˈtso.han/