Whitechest

Whitechest is a language spoken by a small tribe of 150 people in northeastern Alabama of the same name. The name for the language and the tribe comes from the fascination that the tribe had with the skin color of the discoverers. The native name for Whitechest is "Ȟakasesi." The language is an isolate, so it has a speech pattern that differs from nearby languages such as Creek. It is a fusional language.

Consonants
Letters in parenthesis are the sound's representation in the alphabet.

Phonotactics
1. All syllables must have an onset, limited to two consonants.

2. Stress is always ultima, so all words are oxytonal.

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Basic Grammar
Unlike the Muskhogean languages, Whitechest is a fusional language. There are 8 noun cases: genitive, dative, accusative, nominative, instrumental, locative, vocative, and superessive. Verbs take on three simple and three perfect tenses: past sim/per, present sim/per, and future sim/per; each simple tense is composed of two voices: active, and passive. Each voice has three moods: subjunctive, conditional, and optative. Adjectives follow the noun, adverbs describe verbs, nouns, and adjectives. Prepositions are expressed as a proclitic on the subject. Conjunctions function similar to English, there are three kinds: co-ordinating, subordinating, and correlative. Interjections are the same as in English.