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Original Khalic
Orsâ Khâl
[or̪sɑ xɑl̪]*
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 2 April 2023
Language type Artistic Language (Artlang)
Species Human/humanoid
About Original Khalic Language of a large city of lizard-folk on the western coast of the Great Continent.

Features
-Used to have a case system, but the only remnant of this is the genitive ending -â, which is itself becoming increasingly formal and archaic.
-Edible and Inedible genders
-Polypersonal pronouns. There used to be pure 1SG, 1PL, etc. pronouns, but these have fallen out of use in the standard language. So, how do you form a sentence like "I saw" "I ran away" etc? You add a -k affix that deletes the second referent. So râ (1sg subj and 2sg obj) becomes râk '1sg subj', leś '2sg subj and 1sg object' becomes lekś '2sg subj', and so on. However, the deleted referent does still have some influence - râk is considered more informal than the 3sg obj form zakkh, which is in turn more informal than the 3pl obj form sakz. So how you refer to yourself in these sentences depends on the social status of the person to whom you are speaking - râk for close friends and family, zakkh as a 'neutral' form for strangers, acquaintances and when you do not know the status of the listener, and sakz if you are speaking to someone of higher status. The same applies for 1pl and second-person subject forms.

-agglutinative verb morphology
Sample of Original KhalicCan't find any yet.
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-xûaffhabitual aspect indicator
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Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialDentalAlveolarPost-
Alveolar
Alveolo-
palatal
Velar
Nasal m        
Plosive p b       k g
Fricative β θ s z ʃ   x
Lateral approximant          
Trill          
Click   ǀ ǃ   ǁ  
VowelsFrontNear-
front
CentralBack
Close i     ɯ u
Near-close   ɪ    
Close-mid e   ɘ o
Open-mid       ɔ
Open a     ɑ
Syllable Structure(V)C(C)V(C)(V)(C)
Orsâ Khâl doesn't allow fricatives to begin a consonant cluster, but otherwise any consonant can cluster with any other, including clusters where both consonants are fricatives.
OtherAlthough reptilian, the teeth of the lizard-folk are covered by scaly lips. These usually would not be enough to enable them to produce bilabials, and this is so among lizard-folk elsewhere, but the Khalic people have, as an adaptation to a harsh, mostly dry and quite windy climate, evolved more substantial lips to protect their teeth and gums (enamel must stay hydrated to stay healthy) and keep the dry (and often dust-laden) wind from dehydrating their mouth and throat.
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Original Khalic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Original KhalicOrthography [edit]
Ââ/ɑ/Aa/a/Bb/b/Dd/d̪/D' d'/ǃ/Êê/ɘ/Ee/e/Gg/g/Îî/ɪ/Ii/i/
Kk/k/K' k'/ǁ/KH kh/x/Ll/l̪/Mm/m/Nn/n̪/Oo/o/Ôô/ɔ/Pp/p/Rr/r̪/
Śś/θ/Ss/s/Tt/t̪/T' t'/ǀ/Uu/u/Ûû/ɯ/Vv/β/Xx/ʃ/Zz/z/
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