Echlander

General Information
Echlander (natively ꅁ›ꏂꇮꇠ‘Ēckęle /ʔe:tskẽle/) is a language isolate spoken in the remnants of the Ech Empire on the planet Patrona (‘Arkǭnę): The Kingdom of Ech, Kalatuun, and the Cōersā canton of the Confederacy of Belsha (Persā).

Consonants

 * Stops, affricates, and fricatives are voiced intervocallically or after /l/.
 * [m] is an allophone of /w/ before a nasal vowel.
 * [ɹ] is an allophone /l/ in the syllable coda.

Phonotactics
(C)V(/s/, /ts/, /l/)

Illegal syllables: ne, no, nǫ, ge, go, gue, guo, ko, kǫ, yi, pę, pǫ

Native script
The native script of the Echlanders and all of the languages of their previously-conquered territory is a syllabary called Posani‘ēckęle.

The syllabary

 * 1) This is the length mark
 * 2) The inverted breve on these symbols is supposed to be above them like the other glottal stop syllables.
 * 3) This letter functions ambiguously as either a coda s or c. It is also commonly written as a barred ꉔ.
 * 4) Despite yi 's pronunciation matching i, it retains a separate symbol.

Writing direction
In imitation of Edalith and Andem writing, the Ech syllabary is written in left-to-right horizontal lines starting at the bottom of a page.

Collation
i1, ‘i, e, ‘e, ę, ‘ę, a, ‘a, o, ‘o, ǫ, ‘ǫ, ni, nę, na, nǫ, gi, gę, ga, gui, guę, gua, guǫ, ti, te, tę, ta, to, tǫ, ki, ke, kę, ka, qui, que, quę, qua, quo, quǫ, pi, pe, pa, po, si, se, sę, sa, so, sǫ, ci, ce, cę, ca, co, cǫ, hi, he, hę, ha, ho, hǫ, li, le, lę, la, lo, lǫ, i2, ye, yę, ya, yo, yǫ, wi, we, mę, wa, wo, mǫ, s/c, r, :

Pronouns

 * The inclusive and exclusive 1p pronouns differ in whether or not they include the listener, i.e. ketēle "me and you" vs. gamęr "me and him/her/it".

Verbs
Verbs are insanely expressive in the Echlander.

Person
The personal prefix taking up the first slot is obligatory and may be broken down as a compound prefix into most animate argument and least animate argument.

In the table, the more animate arguments are the rows and the less animate arguments are the columns. ex. ilāga "I carry", ǫlāga "he/she/it carries", keolāga "we carry you/him/her/it", tilāga "he/she/it carries him/her/it", nalāga "he/she/it carry them", mǫislātęrqui "it's said he carried you"

Voice
There are three "voices" in Echlander. A sentence can be direct, inverse, or reflexive.

The direct voice is used when the more animate argument is the subject of the sentence. It is marked with a null morpheme in slot 2. ex. Yǫsōrkicqui. "I knocked him out."

The inverse voice is used when the less animate argument is the subject of the sentence. It is marked with an infixed -is- in slot 2, which sometimes affects the personal prefix. ex. Yǫissōrkicqui. "He knocked me out."

The inverse morpheme also functions as a reflexive morpheme when applied to the intransitive prefixes (the 0 column in the above table). ex. Ǫissōrkicqui. "He knocked himself out."

Personal prefix mutations with the inverse/reflexive morpheme:

Incorporation
When an object is incorporated, the verb becomes intransitive.

Taimę keotīlios‘ęga. vs. Ketīliostaimę‘ęga. "We can steal the gold."

Ability
There is an affix meaning "able to do", ‘ę, which takes up slot 5. ex. Ācor iguǫ‘ęgaga. "I think I can go today."

Evidentiality
Evidentiality is a marking of the type of evidence the speaker has for what they are saying. The evidence infix is placed in slot 5. Evidentiality is only marked in five of the ten TAMs: the habitual, continuous, past, negative, and abilitative.

In the past tense the null morpheme describes an event directly witnessed or experienced by the speaker. ex. nitīliostaimęqui "I saw them steal the gold", nitīliostaimęquilar "I didn't see them steal the gold"

There are 3 more evidential infixes: reportative -tęr- (I was told, I hear, It's said), assumptive -hō- (I can only assume), and deductive -ga- (I suppose, I guess, I can then infer)

Cōgua ǫsōrkic‘apīryęhōta. "I assume he'll get drunk and pass out soon"

Tense and mood

 * Personal prefixes are dropped in the imperative. ex. Guǫslar! "Don't go!" or "Let's not go!"