Whitechest

Whitechest is an isolate spoken in the Appalachian region of Northeastern Alabama. The Whitechest tribe remained undiscovered until very recently (the last 6 months). It shares little with surrounding languages due to the fact that the tribe has been in isolation for thousands of years.

Consonants
Letters in parenthesis are the sound's representation in the alphabet.

Phonotactics
1. All syllables must have an onset, limited to two consonants.

2. Stress is always ultima, so all words are oxytonal.

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Basic Grammar
Unlike the Muskhogean languages, Whitechest is a fusional language. There are 8 noun cases: genitive, dative, accusative, nominative, instrumental, locative, vocative, and superessive. Verbs take on three simple and three perfect tenses: past sim/per, present sim/per, and future sim/per; each simple tense is composed of two voices: active, and passive. Each voice has three moods: subjunctive, conditional, and optative. Adjectives follow the noun, adverbs describe verbs, nouns, and adjectives. Prepositions are expressed as a proclitic on the subject. Conjunctions function similar to English, there are three kinds: co-ordinating, subordinating, and correlative. Interjections are the same as in English.