Kughralga

Phonology
Kughralga has a moderate but sometimes unusual phoneme inventory. It is relatively consonant-heavy with distinguishing circa thirty consonants, but only four vowel phonemes.

Consonants
Kughralga has a moderately big consonant inventory containinɡ some rather unusual sounds like the lateral affricates [t͡ɬ] and [d͡ɮ] or the voiced uvular plosive [ɢ]. [ŋ] and [ɴ] are allophones of [n] in front of velar ([k], [ɡ], [x] and [ɣ]) or uvular ([q], [ɢ], [χ] and [ʁ]) consonants.

Vowels
Kughralga has just four vowel quantities. It lacks the mid-front [e] and the mid-back [o] often found in European languages. [ɛ] and [ɔ] are allophones of [i] and [u] in front of uvular consonants.

Grammar
The grammar of Kughrulga is quite complex, with heavy use of prefixes, circumfixes and suffixes. Although mostly strongly agglutinating, it also has some undeniable polysynthetic traits. Basic word order is SOV, although variations are not unusual with the most common being OSV, SVO and OVS. Kughralga is an ergative-absolutive language.

Affixiation can lead to very long sentence-like words, e.g.:

Tsqvaghdzgraghzrash. - We would not have circled you (if...)

[t͡sqvaɣd͡zɡraɣzraʃ]

ts-q-va-ɡh-dz-ɡraɡh-zra-sh - 1ex.sg.erg-perf-neg-2.sg.abs-ind-circle-make-pl