Shawafian

Shawafian, otherwise known as H'tkut'kaesla Saslah' ([ʔʼtʰkɯ̥tʼkæ̥ɬɑ̥ sɑ̥ɬɑ̥ʔ]) by its native speakers, is a language isolate* spoken by roughly 31% of the creatures of Shawaf, a loose confederacy of small nations/groups that was in very close proximity to the Empire of Yageeb.

The language has a wide range of moods/aspects, unlike most other Pencilcosmos languages, and lacks passive voice and tense.

* most likely; a theory suggests that Shawafian is related to other languages within the Pencilcosmos.

Classification and Dialects
Shawafian, as it is in relatively close proximity to The Pencil Language, has inherited some agglutinative traits of The Pencil Language, including nesting subordinate clauses within the same word and sometimes gluing adjectives onto their head.

Consonants
(?): This sound is a glottal ejective, which humans are unable to pronounce.

Phonotactics

 * The glottal ejective can never come before a vowel.
 * The glottal ejective cannot serve as a coda.

Sound Changes

 * Unaspirated consonants tend to get aspirated when close to the glottal ejective
 * q > χ (unpredictable)
 * kq > kx or χ
 * ts > tʃ /_P
 * x > k /F_V
 * ɯ̥ > ∅ /_#
 * ʔ > ∅ /_#
 * tʃ > ʃ /C_
 * ɯ̥ > ɤ̥

Writing System
Shawafian uses a modified version of the Pencil Language script.

Nouns
Nouns have 4 case suffixes: nominative, accusative, genitive, and locative, as well as 2 marked numbers: plural and collective. Other cases are formed using particles and combinations of those. Inclusive variants of pronouns end with -h't, which was the old collective case.

Verbs
Verbs are conjugated according to mood and aspect.

The perfective, imperfective, and experiential aspects were derived from demonstrative determiners/adjectives. Verb constructions such as "be [verb]ed" that would usually be formed via passive voice are instead created by adding the h't- prefix onto the verb, and treating the patient as the object.

Syntax
The language is head-initial, and does not have a fixed word order (due to a strict case system).