Ishkari

Ishkari (nat. Ḥ itwa Íshé or Khitwa Ishei [ħ ɪ twa i: ʃe:], lit. city speech) is the standard language of the Qoharic people of the Dar Hajé River Basin, nat. the  Qahríz Na ḥwa. It is the native language of about 3,000,000  Qohars, and is the official language of the city-state of Ishkar located on the mouth of the Dar Hajé River.

Classification and Dialects
A direct descendant of Classical Qoharic, Ishkari retains its predominantly suffixing agglutinative identity while constantly being influenced by the speech of merchants, travellers and pilgrims who visit Ishkar. It is, however, considered the standard of the East Qoharic family  Dar Hajé River Basin dialects, with the variants spoken by the Seven Tribes and the upper class as pure, and those of the Upriver Dwellers and the poor as rustic, corrupted or in poor taste.

Consonants

 * All consonants save for the alveolar trill can occur as geminates, but only between two vowels.

Orthography
Most phonemes are written the same as their IPA symbol. The ones that do not are listed in the table below. If a phoneme written as a digraph is to be geminated, only the first element of the digraph is doubled. The phoneme /ɢ/ only occurs as a syllable-final version of /q/, / e / only occurs at the beginning or end of a word, and / ɑ/ only occurs after /q/.

Phonotactics
Ishkari follows a (C)(r)V(ḥ, h)(C) syllable structure.