Nuktaq

Setting
Nutavik is spoken by the Nutavik elves, a tribe of about 300 forest elves who live in the kingdom of Unaasseq. The elves live a very traditional and simple life and have no modern technology, so their language lacks many modern words you'll find in English. Nutavik is a language isolate and has had very little lexical or grammatical influence from any other language. The Nutavik don't like borrowing words from other languages, so when they need to create a new word they combine existing morphemes together to create the word rather than borrowing from another language. Nutavik has a fairly simple grammar with few irregularities. The Nutavik originally had their own script but in recent years have adopted the Latin alphabet. Nutavik has a small and simple sound inventory but has a number of sounds that are foreign to speakers of most European languages, such as the high central vowel /ɨ/, the implosive consonants /ɓ ɗ/, and the lateral fricative /ɬ/, which is voiced to [ɮ] intervocalically.

Phonology
Nutavik has a phonemic inventory consisting of 11 consonants and seven vowels. The consonant inventory includes three plosives (/p t k/), two implosives (/ɓ ɗ/), two fricatives (/ɬ h/), three nasals (/m n ŋ/), and one approximant (/l/). Nutavik has a symmetrical seven-vowel system consisting of the vowels /i e ɨ ə a o u/, with no length distinction. There is little to no allophony in the vowel system, but the consonant system has a moderate amount of allophony. The plosive consonants are generally unaspirated but may be weakly aspirated word-initially. /h/ becomes palatal [ç] after front vowels and velar [x] after back vowels. /t/ is realized as a tap [ɾ] word-medially between two vowels, and /ɬ/ is voiced to [ɮ] in the same environment. None of this allophony is indicated in the orthography, but is simply implied. Nutavik has no phonemic tone or stress and has no diphthongs.

Phonotactics
Words may begin in either a consonant or vowel but always end in a consonant. The consonants /ɬ/ ad /ŋ/ are not permitted word-initially. The consonants /ɓ/, /ɗ/ and /h/ are restricted to the syllable onset. Vowel clusters are not permitted, and consonant clusters are only permitted word-medially and do not exceed two consonants in length. Monosyllabic roots have the structure (C)VC, disyllabic roots have the structure (C)V(C).CVC, and trisyllabic roots have the structure (C)V(C).CV(C).CVC. No roots exceed three syllables in length.

Basic Grammar
The grammar of Nutavik is highly regular and fairly simple, and so is easy to learn. Nutavik is a strongly isolating language which uses particles and prepositions rather than inflection and affixes to convey the meaning of grammatical case, number, mood, tense, aspect and voice. Nutavik is strongly right-branching and is prepositional rather than postpositional. Word order is strictly Subject-Verb-Object. Nutavik has no grammatical gender. Tense and aspect are indicated simultaneously by particles preceding the verb. There are three tenses (past, present, future) and three aspects (perfective, habitual, continuous/progressive). Nutavik has three grammatical numbers; singular, dual and plural. Each root word in Nutavik belongs to a default part of speech. Particles are used to turn root words into a different part of speech from their default. Nutavik makes no distinction between adjectives and adverbs.