Boghash

Boghash is a language spoken by the people of Boghash, or Boghash-iri ('iri' means 'people, nation'), one of several peoples inhabiting the island of Munnaya. They're a strongly military nation, and their belief system is centered about the element of fire, and that maight be one of the reasons why they have built their main city in a crater of an extinct volcano.

Classification and Dialects
There are two main dialects (or, rather, modes of speech), these being the Rrakhi-lhana, lit. 'hard-speech', and Enqu-lhana (lit. 'soft-speech'). The first one is spoken mainly in the northern parts of their lands, as well as rural areas and in and out of the City of Boghash. The other dialect is used everywhere else.

There are several differences between the two, phonological, but also syntactical and grammatical.

Vowels
There is no length distinction.

Stress patterns depend on several conditions.

Nouns
Nouns have 4 numbers (Singular, Dual, Paucal, Plural), 12 cases (Nominative, Absolutive, Ablative, Locative, Dative, Distributive, Instrumental, Comitative, Possessed, Privative, Adjectival/Equative, Adverbial/Essive), 5 classes (Fire/holy things, Masculine, Feminine, Neuter/mixed, Abstractions/uncountables), as well as two states of definitness (Deinite/Indefinite). They are declined in a strongly fusional way, with the ending part changing. There are several declensions.

Adjectives and adverbs
Boghash has several ways of describing words. There are relatively few 'pure adjectives'; mostly, nouns in the Adjectival/Equative case or participles are used in this position.

The adverbs follow the same way.

Verbs
The verbs are much more complicated than nouns, and they are inflected in a rather agglutinative manner. They have 5 tenses (Present, Near Past, Remote Past, Near Future, Remote Future), 3 semi-tenses (Perfect, Imperfect, Prospective), 4 aspects (Indefinite, Durative, Momentane, Repetitive) and 14 moods. They also agree with the subject in Person, Number, and, sometimes, also Class and Definitness, and with the direct object, as well (in the active voice). There are only the two 'usual' voices, active and passive.

Syntax
Boghash is rather head-final, so it prefers SOV (at least in the Hard Speech) word order, as well as postpositions to prepositions. Adjectives, though, stand before nouns they modify rather than after them (the same applies to adverbs).