Karahien

General Info
Karaxien is directly descended from Afrikaans, and is spoken many years in the future by a growing community outside of Karasburg, Namibia. While Afrikaans was spoken by about 11% of the population in 2015, the isolation of speakers led to rapid evolution of the language and the eventual designation as a separate language, rather than a dialect of Afrikaans. The language has kept evolving since, and eventually spread back to South Africa, where it settled once again in the Northern Cape.

Nouns
Nouns inflect to case and number, but there is no gramatical gender, and definitiveness is indicated through articles which are sometimes presented as clitics. There are two classes of nouns, with Class I ending in vowels, and Class II ending in consonants. There are 4 degress of definitiveness, each usable on non-total nouns, defined as follows:


 * Indefinite:   Speaking of arbitrary instance(s) of what is being referred to
 * Some rabbits can only be killed with hand grenades
 * Definite:     Speaking of specific instance(s) of what is being referred to
 * The rabbit is evil
 * Personal:  Speaking of specific instance(s), bearing a personal significance to the 1st person
 * ​The/this rabbit is my friend
 * Interpersonal / Impersonal:  Speaking of specific instance(s), bearing a personal significance to either the 2nd or the 3rd person
 * The/that rabbit is her friend

Nouns are pluralized in two ways:  noun forms that end in vowels are pluralized with an -s, while noun forms that end in consonants are slightly more complicated. An -i is added to the end, and this induces a vowel change quite similar to a parallel umlaut (the changes go both ways) on the previous vowel, and the -i is removed but the umlaut retained. These vowel changes are as follows in Karaxien:
 * o > e
 * e > o
 * a > aa OR i
 * aa > a
 * i > a
 * ao > ai
 * ai > ao

Class I - Ayjo:  Idiot

Class II - Orvaod: Jungle

Articles
The articles used to indicate definitiveness are as follows:
 * Indefinite :             An
 * Definite :               Dai
 * Presentable :         Ecai
 * Inter/impersonal:    Yaodai

Verbs

Verbs do not conjugate to person, however the number of the subject is relevant to conjugation. Most verbs conjugate fully and distinctly to number, tense, and mood. Though there is much debate over this in general, there is no doubt that the conditional is a tense in Karaxien.

Verbs in the present tense are formed by using the infinitive form for the singular subjects, and the infinitive form with -es or -s attached

Conjugation
Verbs only conjugate to present and conditional

Past tense
The present perfect tense is formed by placing cze before the past participle, while the pluperfect is formed by placing czasao before the same. The past participle is identical to the preterite.

The preterite tense is formed by placing ja- in front of the verb as a prefix.

Other tenses
The other tenses are discussed in great detail in the syntax section.

Adjectives
Adjectives inflect according to number, and whether or not they are predicative or attributive. The predicative singular adjectives serve as the base form, while the others add onto that. They are as follows:

Pronouns
Nominative, Accusative, and Dative personal pronouns follow

Word Order
The general word order is SOV, but this is often ignored in writing, where the reader can simply go back if s/he does not understand what was said and context is more 'rewindable'

Future Tenses
There are two future tenses, the simple future and the near future. The simple future, the equivalent of 'I will xyz', is formed by placing the present tense form of the verb "to be" before the infinitive verb, while the near future, the equivalent of 'I am going to xyz', is formed by placing the present tense form of the verb "to go" before the infinitive verb. When forming the conditional, the simple future is used as the base for a simple conditional, while the near future base is used as a progressive conditional.

Conditional Tense
The simple conditional, 'I would xyz' is formed like a past future, conjugating the verb 'to be' in the past tense, and placing it before the infinitive verb. The progressive conditional is formed much the same way, only with the verb 'to go' in the past tense.

Introducing New Clauses
There is no subjunctive conjugation, but subjunctive clauses and other dependent clauses are formed differently from one another. The subjunctives are formed paraphrastically by stating the main subject and the verb, followed by the subject of the new clause, followed by the word 'da' (that), followed by the infinitive verb for the new clause.

Other new clauses, such as 'if' statements, are formed by using the introductory word for the new clause, then a normal subject-verb combination. This is most often the same construction used in english.

Comparatives and Superlatives
Comparatives are formed by placing 'nier' before the adjective they are modifying, while superlatives are formed the same way, only with an article preceeding the 'nier'.

Reflexives
There is no specific reflexive pronoun in Karaxien, but instead, to indicate reflexiveness, transitive verbs are used without an object. Therefore, "They kill the dog" means exactly what it says, but "They kill" means "They kill themselves"

Passive Voice
The passive voice is formed by placing the verb "to be" in front of the past participle. This functions as the mirror opposite of the perfect tenses, however since not all of the perfect tenses are formed using cze (have), the conditional and future passives are formed differently than their perfects.