Nhefashizharrypa

Nhefashizharrypa is a language spoken by nomads in the world of Forexis. In the recent years they have started to develop agriculture, in their expansive grassy flatlands, most predominantly pastoralism however some level of grain growing is done. After a drought that had severe impacts on crops and animals' health they had to

Consonants
1 ʁ and ʀ are allophones

Vowels
1 e and ɛ are allophones

2 o and ɔ are allophones

Phonotactics
CVC

CCVC

(C)CVCC

CC+approximant+VC(C)

Nouns
Nouns decline according to case (10 of them), gender (3) and number (3).

The cases are: ergative, absolutive (used for the direct object), ablative (out of), locative (at a place), dative (serves also as instrumental and for indirect objects), genitive (possession), vocative (apostrophe), temporal (it is at 7 pm), limitative (have it by 7 pm) and perlative (through)

The genders are: abstract, mineral and organic (organic includes anything with sponanious growth including mould, fermentation and fire)

The numbers are: singular, dual and plural Singular is also generlly used for mass nouns, e.g. "grass", "some money", etc… Adjectives do not decline like nouns, they only match the gender of the nouns with the table above.

Nouns have a prefix indicating the case and a suffix indicating number.

Verbs
Inflection happens in this manner: ASPECT + PERSON + VERB-TENSE-MOOD + VOICE

Only tense and mood act in a fusional manner, the rest are agglutinative affixes. The only exception to the rule are irregular verbs like the verb to be.

There are 4 voices: passive, active, causative, reciprocal

There 3 moods: indicative, imperative, conditional

There are 9 persons: 3 persons in 3 numbers: each of the numbers (singular, dual, plural) are split in 1st, 2nd and 3rd person.

There are 3 tenses: present, recent past (generally of the day), and distant past There are 3 aspects: habitual, perfect (finished actions), and imperfect (ongoing action)

Kakut does not conjugate according to voice

There are two classes of verbs. The ones that end in a vowel in the infinitive and the ones that end in a consonant.

The vowel one is split in two groups: -njo and -zhy forms

The consonant one is split in three group: -ut, -ab and -ok.

-ut might be for irregular verbs only.

Lexicon
Nomadic people endonym - Œnhefashi

Nomadic language endonym - Nhefashizharrypa