Rahturior

General information
Standard Rahturior (SR; Rähtürïör), sometimes spelled more logagraphically as "Rahtourior", and sometimes referred to as "Hkrinik" or "Hëkrinik", is a fusional language of the Hkrinitik language family, being classified under the Lüdra-Shadon branch and the Rälai sub-branch, distancing the language from the many languages of the Nirut peoples. The name comes from a combination of the Pehrasi word "rahtouri" meaning "after the great era" and the Drulaktyor grand-possessive case ("-yor" to "-ior"), the latter of which also carried into Modern Galrantior.

The word "rahtouri" is significant because the legendary ancient Pehrasiil ruler named Tarieden delivered a speech upon his inauguration that ended with the line (in Old Pehrasi): "Kwutaila rahtouri; polikure." which means "We live on past the great era; accommodate." The word "rahtouri", spelled differently depending on the language it is transferred to, has since become a byword for the universe inhabited by the Shaneiks, Galrants, Rekuans, Skalots, Leimuses, and others.

Rahturior is itself an auxlang developed by a team of linguists led by a Lüdraic Shaneik linguist named Ikcäla Nörvü for the purposes of establishing a lingua franca across the inhabited lands of Rahtouri. Superficially, it is like Esperanto in that it was specifically constructed to become a "world" language, the main difference being that Rahturior actually succeeded in this regard--to some extent. In the lands of Uxtratana (which the Galrants, Rekuans, and Skalots mostly inhabit), the language has only had minor success as an occasional trade tongue and a popular choice for Skalots to learn for surface communication; Rekuans continue to speak languages of the Kuo-Faslonur family, and Galrants continue to speak Modern Galrantior.

However, in the lands of Hkrinitik, Rahturior spread like wildfire to the point that it is the last major language in the major Hkrinitik populace to this day--modern variants of Nirut languages remain as officially recognized native languages, and Standard Shaneic (spoken by the Lüdraic Shaneiks in the past) being preserved as a scholarly tongue much like Latin. Due to its wide success in Hkrinitik and only minor success in Uxtratana, it has been proposed multiple times that the language be renamed "Hkrinik" to reflect its true range, and many citizens of Uxtratana lands have taken to calling it Hkrinik.

Much like Esperanto, Rahturior is made up of words and grammar derived from many sources, the most influential being Standard Shaneic, Modern Galrantior, and Old Niruti.

Phonology
Rahturior phonology, like that of Galrantior and Rekualn, does not follow any human phonological trends or shifts, because the language is spoken by nonhumans (Shaneiks and Leimuses, which are mammals but not simian, and Skalots, which are like lungfish). It generally maintains the phonology of Standard Shaneic with a few borrowed sounds from Shadonic and Niruti.