Abashe

General information
Abashe is a language isolate spoken in the outskirts of the Shinsali Republic. It is generally classified agglutinative or polysynthetic and has some fusional tendences.

Vowels

 * There are two diphthongs /ai/ and /au/
 * Any other sequences of two vowels is pronounced with hiatus
 * If ai, au, eu, iu, and ei are pronounced in hiatus, the first vowel in the sequence is written with diaresis.

Nouns
Nouns in Abashe belong to one of 14 noun classes and take on multiple suffixes, including number, demonstratives, locatives, postpositionals, possessives, derivational morphemes, diminuitives, and augmentatives. However, objective nouns are often suffixed onto the verb itself along with their respective suffixes. There are some verbal paradigms which allow both a subject and object noun to be suffixed onto the verb root, but these are rare. There are no verb roots which allow an indirect object to be suffixed onto the verb root.

Noun class
In Abashe, nouns are arranged into a number of classes. Noun class is not apparent on noun other than from its semantic meaning. The endings listed in the thwird column are suffixes used in various types of agreement, such as with adjectives or postpositions.

Syntax
Abashe is an exclusively suffixing polysynthetic agglutinative language. The language is highly inflected and occasionally exhibits some aspects of a fusional language. It most-often follows SOV word order, but word order is higly flexible.