Salofang

Salofang /saloʊ'feɪŋ/, known natively as Selhofang, is a language native to the country of Pactone. It has around 35 million speakers.

Due to a long history of colonization and influence by the English, Salofang grammar has shifted towards English's a lot, although it still keeps its original SOV word order.

Classification and Dialects
Salofang has several similar but distinct dialects, spoken in different regions of Pactone.

The most spoken dialect is Northern Pactonean, from the densely populated north of the country. It is often considered the most "proper" or standard variety, similar to Standard Pactonean English which is spoken in the region.

Other major dialects include Coast, spoken on the East Coast of Pactone south of Lafort, Inland, spoken in the inland southern portion of the country, and Talhena, spoken in the Talhenos Mountains of north-central Pactone.

Consonants
Salofang has an unusual consonant invetory, having a voiceless w and ɾ, and having the voiceless alveolar lateral fricative ɬ. It also has the bilabial fricatives, ɸ and β, but uses them in the same way as f and v in other languages.

Vowels
Salofang has 5 basic vowels, however if next to each other they are usually merged into a diphthong.

Phonotactics
Salofang has a CCVCC syllable structure, however, almost all Salofang words are CVC, besides some loanwords and clusters created by declination.

All consonants can appear at the start and end of a syllable.

Writing System
Salofang had no written language before the arrival of the English, so it inherited English's spelling system.

Nouns
Nouns decline according to case, number, and definitness.

Cases:

Salofang nouns decline to 2 cases: Genitive and instrumental. The suffix -egha is added for the instrumental case, while a variety of suffixes can be added to show a noun's relation to other nouns.

Definitness:

Nouns that are definite have the suffix -ut at the end. Indefinite nouns are not declined.

Number:

Plural nouns have -os added to the end. If the last letter is a vowel, it will be replaced.

Verbs
Salofang has 3 tenses: Past, present, and future. Salofang verbs are conjugated by person too.

Example: To walk - Eipto

I walked in the park - Es otelaet rha eiptel

He walks in the park - Tse otelaet rha eiptap

Syntax
Salofang has an SOV word order.

Objects must go in the order Indirect-Direct-Object of Preposition.

Adjectives come after the noun, and adverbs come after the verb.

Salofang uses postpositions.

Example text
Selhofang Pecton rhanet lharhaposa. Ensotuput Pecton Edgewater sesap.

Salofang is spoken in Pactone. The capital of Pactone is Edgewater.