Qḱptt͜kt͜kp͜kk

Classification and Dialects
Qḱptt͜kt͜kp͜kk / Qkhptskskfkk [ꝃkʰptt͡kt͡kp͡kk] or Qḱpt͜kt́ḱp / Qkhpskthkhp [ꝃkʰpt͡ktʰkʰp] is a language with absolutely no vowels, and a very non-standard consonant set.

Phonotactics
Qḱptt͜kt͜kp͜kk uses a phonorun system.

Basically, the first letter puts the syllable in three categories, one based on the place, another on the manner, and the last on realization.

So a syllable starting with r has the alveolar, trill and non-aspirated categories.

The next letter must have at least one category which is the same as the first, but not all three. If another letter is added, it must agree in one way with both previous letters, but cannot be the same.

So [r̥t] is a valid phonorun, but **[r̥tʙ̥] is not because "t" has the plosive category, even though "r" has the trill category, so the trill category was forbidden after the 2nd sound.

You can't repeat a sound used previously in the phonorun at any point.

If all 3 categories are forbidden or the next sound should be forbidden, then the phonorun ends.

Romanisation
There are two Latin orthographies for the language, one of which uses tie bars and other diacritics (Pct͜kbyt/Pcskbyt) and one which uses changes to letters and digraphs (Ktt͜kbyt/Ktskbyt). These can be referred to as "P" and "K" as shorthand, and can also be written in either orthography. In Pct͜kbyt, an accent is put on a letter, or both letters of a coarticulated sound, to show it is aspirated (i.e. /t͡kʰ/ = t́͜ḱ). In Ktskbyt, "h" is put after the letter, and not between the two graphemes of a coarticulated letter (i.e. /t͡kʰ/ = skh). In both orthographies, putting an apostrophe (') after the letter indicates that it is an ejective (i.e. /t͡k'/ = t͜k' in P orthography and sk' in K orthography).

Grammar
This language is polysynthetic with heavily inflected nouns.

Nouns
The nouns are inflected for case, gender, and number.

Plural
Singular nouns always end in stops and plural nouns always end in the trills with the corresponding place and realization.

Cases
A transitive verb has two arguments, the Agent (which is doing the action) and Object (which is affected by the action), while an intransitive verb has one Sole argument.

The cake (Sole) burned (Intransitive).

The person (Agent) burned (Transitive) the cake (Object).

Qḱptt͜kt͜kp͜kk nouns take different cases depending on the tense of the verb.

Non-Locative Prepositions
A ditransitive verb takes three arguments: the subject, direct object, and indirect object.

The person (Subject) gave (ditransitive) the cake (Direct Object) to the store (Indirect Object).

For every tense in Qḱptt͜kt͜kp͜kk, the subject takes the pegative case, the direct object takes the case used for the argument of an intransitive verb for that tense, and the indirect object takes the dative or benefactive case.

Genders
This language has at least seven genders.

Verbs
The verbs in Qḱptt͜kt͜kp͜kk are even more synthetic than the nouns.

Word Order
Generally, word order goes:


 * Nouns which have core cases
 * Verb(s)
 * Nouns which don't have core cases

Verbal Case Marking
These are not cases because they attach to the front of the verb, in the rough order of the affected nouns if applicable. In some dialects, they go in front of the nouns and act as prepositions, only going in front of the verb when the thing they modify has already been specified. In other dialects, they go in front of the word with which they form a phonorun, defaulting to some other position if this is not possible. For simplicity's sake, they are referred to as "cases".

As cases, they form phonoruns with the beginning of the word, acting backwards from the end of the case to form a single phonorun with the word. However, if a sound has already been used in the phonorun, instead of changing, it will just stop there. As prepositions, they form single phonoruns with themselves.

Even though they can appear in any order, they tend to appear in orders which create the longest phonoruns.

Locative Cases
There are a large number of regularly-structured locative cases in Qḱptt͜kt͜kp͜kk, many of which carry meaning similar to specific prepositions in English. The case names according to Wikipedia's list of cases are on the chart where corresponding case names exist.

Notes:
 * 1) These cases can only refer to nominalized verbs.
 * 2) These cases appear either when referring to plural nouns or following by a noun modified by t͜ktt́ / sktth.

They can be analyzed as a prefix which modifies an incomplete case in a way that forms a single phonorun.

Semi-Locative Cases
These cases seem related to locative cases, but aren't changed in the same regular way.

Forwards-Backwards Type Cases

Similarity-Type Cases

With-Type Cases

Tenses/Aspects
There are "tenses" indicated by a combination of actual tense, aspect, mood, and evidentiality.

If there are appropriate nouns in the sentence, the tense indicated by the nouns will override the tense indicated by the verb.