Hükzhiohish

Classification and Dialects
Hükzhiohish is a sinitic language, spoken in the fictional island of Hükzhioh. It is a mixed language, with origins from Siyi yue, Canton yue, Teo-Swa minnan, Tsuan-Tsiang minnan, Houguan mindong, Oujiang wu, Taihu wu, Hongchao huai.

Inventory and Phonotactics
One syllable is one morpheme.

The syllable structure is (C)(V)V(V)(C).


 * (sounds in this brackets is only used in sound changes)
 * Some words with /b/,/d/,/g/,/d͡z/,/d͡ʑ/ initials, would be changed to /bʱ/,/dʱ/,/gʱ/,/d͡zʱ/,/d͡ʑʱ/ when spoken isolatedly and at the start of sentence.
 * Some words with /v/,/l/,/m/,/n/,/ȵ/,/ŋ/ initials, would be changed to /vʱ/,/lʱ/,/mʱ/,/nʱ/,/ȵʱ/,/ŋʱ/ in light tones.


 * Some word combination have chances of undergoing consonant lenitation. Pattern as follow.
 * After /i/,/u/,/ʔ/ coda, 


 * 1) Initial /p/,/pʰ/ would be changed to /β/.
 * 2) Initial /t/,/tʰ/,/s/ would be changed to /l/.
 * 3) Initial /k/,/kʰ/,/h/ would be changed to / /.
 * 4) Intial /t͡s/,/t͡sʰ/ would be changed to /ʒ/.
 * After /ŋ/,/n/,/m/ coda,


 * 1) Initial /p/,/pʰ/ would be changed to /m/.
 * 2) Initial /t/,/tʰ/,/s/.l/ would be changed to /n/.
 * 3) Initial /k/,/kʰ/,/h/,/ / would be changed to /ŋ/.
 * 4) Intial /t͡s/,/t͡sʰ/ would be changed to /ʒ/.
 * However, all of the above rules are quite irregular and happens randomly.
 * Some median would changed to consonant if the word lacks consonants. Pattern as follow,
 * 1) /y/ would be changed to /ɥ/.
 * 2) /ɪ~i~ɨ/ would be changed to /j/.
 * 3) /ʊ~u/ would be changed to /w/.
 * However, again, the above rules are quite irregular and happens randomly.
 * /ɫ/ is only used in /əɫ/.
 * Apical Er-hua patterns as follow,
 * For coda,


 * 1) /ɪ~i~ɨ/ and /n/ are deleted (add /ʅ/ (non-rounded vowel) or /ʯ/(rounded vowel) after).
 * 2) /ŋ/ is deleted and the syllable becomes nasalized (add /ʅ̃/(non-rounded vowel) or /ʯ̃/(rounded vowel) after with the nucleus nasalized).
 * 3) /ʊ~u/ would have /ʯ/ added after.
 * 4) /ʔ/ would have /ʅ/ (non-rounded vowel) or /ʯ/(rounded vowel) added before.
 * For Nucleus,


 * 1) /e/ would have /ʅ/ added after it.
 * 2) /ʊ~u/ would have /ʯ/ added after it.
 * 3) /ɪ~i~ɨ/,/y/ becomes median with /eʅ~e̞ʅ~əʅ~ɛʅ/ added after.
 * 4) /ʅ~ɿ/ would be delete with /eʅ~e̞ʅ~əʅ~ɛʅ/ added after.


 * Nasal Er-hua patterns as follow 
 * 1) All other codas are replaced by /ŋ/.
 * 2)   All nucleus without coda will add a coda /ŋ/


 * Vowel Er-hua patterns as follow
 * 1) Add /e~e̞~ə~ɛ/ at after the word.

Tense, Mood, Aspect
The language almost entirely lacks inflection and so words typically have only one grammatical form. Tense, mood and aspect are indicated by verbs, adverbs or phrase that indicate them.

Readings
Quite a number of words in Hükzhiohish have different pronunciation depending on their writing voices, each voice might even have different pronunciations for colloquial, literary and kunyomi readings.

The eight voices are
 * Narrative
 * Descriptive
 * Lyricative
 * Didacative
 * Explanative
 * Argumentative
 * Persuasive
 * Sarcastive

Word order
Hükzhiohish is a Topic-Prominent Language, so words order tends to be determined by the topic. The topic is always placed before the subject. Sentences are in mainly in Subject-Verb-Object order. Sometimes sentence could be changed to Subject-Object-Verb order.

But the language allows the object to be promoted to the topic of the sentence, resulting in an apparently Object(Topic)-Subject-Verb word order. In this structure, only when the subject and object can't be analysed, we have to add indicating words, otherwise it is omitted.

Subject could also become the topic with indicating words, resulting in an apparently Subject(Topic)-Object-Verb word order.

There is also sentences with so-called "double subjects", but actually a topic plus a subjects.

Subject is determined by the topic, and there is no dummy pronoun. A sentence does not necessarily have subject or object.

When there is two objects, normally indirect object goes first. However, if the sentence is about giving, the more emphasize one goes first. And when the sentence is about giving, the direct object could be placed at the first part of sentence.

Complements could go before and after nouns depending on their emphasis, the more emphasize one goes first.

Measure words is found in Hükziohish, after Quantity, and in most situation, before nucleus. Only when the nucleus is the indirect object placed at the first part of sentence, it could be placed after the nucleus, but with quantity. Measure words could also be used without quantity. When the nucleus is the indirect object placed at the first part of sentence with measure words but without quantity it would be placed before the nucleus.

Then abverials, most adverbs and adjectives are before the nucleus. However, there are still some exceptions, which is after the nucleus.

Attributes could be placed before or after the noun freely.

The boundaries of Modal verbs and verbs are really blurry in Hükzhiohish and modal verbs are placed before verbs.

Both prepositions and postpositions are found in Hükziohish.