Nhefashizharrypa

Nhefashizharrypa is a language spoken by nomads in the world of Forexis. In the recent years they have started to develop agriculture, in their expansive grassy flatlands, most predominantly pastoralism however some level of grain growing is done. After a drought that had severe impacts on crops and animals' health they had to ask for the help of their neighbours and this was one of their first official contacts. Now they are enjoying friendly relations with the empire nearby who seems to be a benefactor of city states.

Consonants
1 ʁ and ʀ are allophones

Vowels
1 e and ɛ are allophones

2 o and ɔ are allophones

Phonotactics
CVC

CCVC

(C)CVCC

CC+approximant+VC(C)

Nouns
Nouns decline according to case (10 of them), gender (3) and number (3).

The cases are: ergative, absolutive (used for the direct object), ablative (out of), locative (at a place), dative (serves also as instrumental and for indirect objects), genitive (possession), vocative (apostrophe), temporal (it is at 7 pm), limitative (have it by 7 pm) and perlative (through)

The genders are: abstract, mineral and organic (organic includes anything with sponanious growth including mould, fermentation and fire)

The numbers are: singular, dual and plural Singular is also generlly used for mass nouns, e.g. "grass", "some money", etc…Nouns have a prefix indicating the case and a suffix indicating number.

Nouns are formed with the suffix -galla from adjectives

Nouns from verbs are formed by using the present participle

Adjectives
Adjectives are formed using the suffix -kada

The comparative is formed by adding the suffix -shad

The superlative is formed by adding the suffix -shatsat

Adverbs
Adverbs are formed using the suffix -tuska, except from verbs where they're formed using the suffix -hønh.

Adverbs do not decline.

Verbs
Inflection happens in this manner: ASPECT + PERSON + VERB-TENSE-MOOD + VOICE

Only tense and mood act in a fusional manner, the rest are agglutinative affixes. The only exception to the rule are irregular verbs like the verb to be.

There are 4 voices: passive, active, causative, reciprocal

There 3 moods: indicative, imperative, conditional

There are 9 persons: 3 persons in 3 numbers: each of the numbers (singular, dual, plural) are split in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person.

There are 3 tenses: present, recent past (generally of the day), and distant past

There are 3 aspects: habitual, perfect (finished actions), and imperfect (ongoing action)

Kakut does not conjugate according to voice

There are two classes of verbs. The ones that end in a vowel in the infinitive and the ones that end in a consonant.

The consonant one is split in three group: -ut, -ab and -ok.

-ut might be for irregular verbs only. The vowel one is split in two groups: -njo and -zhy forms Voice Prefix Verbs don't need person when in the participle form The verb forming suffix is -zharrab

Syntax
The basic word order of Nhefashizharrypa is SVO but it is rather flexible due to the declensions.

Suffix summary
-galla is noun forming suffix from adjectives

nouns from verbs are formed by using the present participle

-kada is adjective forming suffix

-tuska is the adverb forming suffix

-hønh is the adverb forming suffix from verbs

-zharrab is the verb forming suffix

Lexicon
Nomadic people endonym - Œnhefashi

Nomadic language endonym - Nhefashizharrypa