Shinsali

Vowels
Vowels can form closing and opening diphthongs with /j/ and /w/.

Alphabet
Aspiration is marked with with ‹h› and ejective consonants are marked with ‹'›, both following the basic glyph. Consonants that can be written preceeding both of ‹h› or ‹'› are ‹p c ċ k t ṭ›.

Phonotactics
The syllable structure is simple (C)V(C). There are no consonant clusters.

Verbs
Shinsali verbs are very complex. They are aspect- and mood-heavy, but have no morphological tense. Verbs of motion, as with many languages, are more complex than other verbs. In Shinsali, verbs of motion indicate deictic information as well as indicating the shape of the object in motion. Verbs are almost exlusively prefixing but verbs of motion take on suffixes to indicate other infomation, such as deictal suffixes and a suffix indicating the shape of the object in motion. The deictal prefixes are used to denote the relation of the speaker and the subject.

Pronominal Prefixes
If there is a third-person suffix there must be a deictal prefix that indicates the relation of the speaker and a third-person object unless the object is invisible to the speaker and the adressee(s). There are standalone pronouns but they are only used with prepositions.

Mood prefixes
Moods in Shinsali are unique in that every mood has a negative form, for example, the negative indicative translates to "not" in English, the negative imperative translates to "Don't ___!", and so on. However, there is no negative dubitative mood.

Deictal prefixes
Deictal prefixes indicate the relation of a third-person subject to the speaker and are only used in the precense of a third-person subject.

Verb stem
The verb stem in the most simple part of a Shinsali verb. Multiple verbs in a list (ex: ____ and ____ and _____) or structures like (verb) to (verb) (such as ask to leave, need to cry, etc) are stacked serially in one verbal construction. Stative verbs also act as adjectives (e.g. to be blue, to be good).