Khǒrarish (/ˈxɒːrærɪʃ/)

The language of the Far Occident

...and he stood holding his hat and turned his wet face to the wind...
che erb nar kiiffa nar che uubiismeft nar jǒg feshkash ǒst chat
Pronunciation: /ʧe erb nær ˈkiːffæ nær ʧe ˈuːbiːsmeft nær ʤɒːg ˈfeʃkæʃ ɒːst ʧæt/
Khǒrarish word order: and stood he holding hat his and turned his face wet to the wind

Spelling & Phonology

Consonant inventory: b d f g h j k l m n p q r s t v x z ɣ ʃ ʒ ʔ ʤ ʧ

↓Manner/Place→	Bilabial	Labiodental	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Glottal
Nasal	m		n
Stop	p b		t d			k g	q	ʔ
Affricate				ʧ ʤ
Fricative		f v	s z	ʃ ʒ		x ɣ		h
Approximant					j
Trill			r
Lateral approximant			l

Vowel inventory: e iː o uː æ ɒː

	Front	Back
High	iː	uː
High-mid	e	o
Near-low	æ
Low		ɒː

Syllable structure: Custom defined
Stress pattern: Initial — stress is on the first syllable
Spelling rules:

Pronunciation	Spelling
ʔ	ʻ
æ	a
ɒː	ǒ
j	y
x	kh
ʃ	sh
ʒ	zh
ʤ	j
ʧ	ch
ɣ	ǧ
Vː	VV

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Grammar

Main word order: Verb Subject Object (Prepositional phrase). “Mary opened the door with a key” turns into Opened Mary the door with a key.
Adjective order: Adjectives are positioned after the noun.
Adposition: prepositions

Nouns

Nouns have two cases:

• Nominative is the doer of a verb: dog bites man.
• Accusative is the done-to of a verb: man bites dog.

Nominative	No affix en /en/ dog (doing the verb)
Accusative	If ends with vowel: Suffix -vʔ Else: Suffix -uːvʔ enuuvʻ /ˈenuːvʔ/ (verb done to) dog

	Singular	Plural
Definite	No affix en /en/ the dog	Suffix -o eno /ˈeno/ the dogs
Indefinite	If ends with vowel: Suffix -d Else: Suffix -iːd eniid /ˈeniːd/ a dog	Suffix -ex enekh /ˈenex/ some dogs

Articles

Khǒrarish encodes definite article ‘the’, and indefinite article ‘a’ in noun affixes. See Noun section.

Pronouns

	Nominative	Accusative
1st singular	ma /mæ/ I	khuuqt /xuːqt/ me
2nd singular	se /se/ you	shǒr /ʃɒːr/ you
3rd singular	nar /nær/ he, she, it	jǒk /ʤɒːk/ him, her, it
1st plural	osht /oʃt/ we	zhǒng /ʒɒːng/ us
2nd plural	da /dæ/ you all	bo /bo/ you all
3rd plural	re /re/ they	a /æ/ them

Possessive determiners

1st singular	ma /mæ/ my
2nd singular	se /se/ your
3rd singular	nar /nær/ his, her, its
1st plural	osht /oʃt/ our
2nd plural	da /dæ/ your (pl)
3rd plural	re /re/ their

Verbs

Khǒrarish uses a standalone particle word for past tense:

Past	Particle before the verb: æm - am fii /æm fiː/ learned

Khǒrarish uses a standalone particle word for future tense:

Future

Particle before the verb: ʒmuːn - zhmuun fii /ʒmuːn fiː/ will learn

Imperfective aspect

The ‘imperfective’ aspect refers to ongoing actions, such as I am learning and habitual actions, such as I learn (something new every day).
Khǒrarish uses a standalone particle word for imperfective:

Imperfective

Particle before the verb: kiːq - kiiq fii /kiːq fiː/ learns/is learning

Perfect aspect

The perfect aspect in English is exemplified in ‘I have read this book’, which expresses an event that took place before the time spoken but which has an effect on or is in some way still relevant to the present.
Khǒrarish uses an affix for the perfect aspect:

Perfect

Reduplicate whole word fiifii /ˈfiːfiː/ have learned

Numbers

Khǒrarish has a base-20 number system:
1 - favr
2 - de
3 - ǧog
4 - mii
5 - sii
6 - e
7 - ii
8 - sars
9 - buurzarm
10 - charjo
11 - khoh
12 - ʻiih
13 - ʻuur
14 - hod
15 - oʻr
16 - foyiitr
17 - biiz
18 - griiǧ
19 - ǒrn
20 - iipoq
21 - iipoq che favr “twenty and one”
400 - okht “fourhundred”
401 - okht che favr “fourhundred and one”
800 - de okht “two fourhundred”
8000 - raya “eightthousand”

Derivational morphology

Adjective → adverb = If ends with vowel: Suffix -st
Else: Suffix -est
Adjective → noun (the quality of being [adj]) = Suffix -æ
Adjective → verb (to make something [adj]) = Suffix -æ
Noun → adjective (having the quality of [noun]) = Suffix -ɒːx
Noun → adjective relating to noun (e.g. economy → economic) = Suffix -iː
Noun to verb = Suffix -es
Verb → adjective (result of doing [verb]) = Suffix -æh
Tending to = If ends with vowel: Suffix -n
Else: Suffix -æn
Verb → noun (the act of [verb]) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -nd
Else: Suffix -ond
Verb → noun that verb produces (e.g. know → knowledge) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -z
Else: Suffix -oz
One who [verb]s (e.g. paint → painter) = Suffix -ɒːj
Place of (e.g. wine → winery) = If ends with vowel: Suffix -nd
Else: Suffix -ɒːnd
Diminutive = Suffix -iːv
Augmentative = Suffix -e

Dictionary

216 Words.