Orthography & Phonology:

                 Bilabial   Alveolar   Velar   Uvular   Pharyngeal   Glotal
Plosive voiced   b          d           g      (q)
      unvoiced   p          t           k      q                       '
      ejective                          kh     qh

Fricative 
      unvoiced   f          s           x                    h         (h)
      voiced     v          z           r                   (w)
  pharyngealized fh         sh          
   and unvoiced  
  pharyngealized vh         zh          
   and voiced    
	
Nasal            m          n           (n)    (n)
Lateral Approx.             l          
Approximant                                                  w



* Glottal stop is contrastive only intervocally.
Allophones are in parenthesis.

Vowels:
Short			Long:			Diphthongs:
i y		u	ii		uu	yu, ao, oi
e eu	a	o		
				aa
Note: the ao diphthong has an open front vowel, not a mid-central vowel.
eu is a digraph representing a monophthong.

Phonotactics:
CV, CVV, CVC, prefered in that order. Syllibation regular. Stress penultimate, 
except enclitics do not affect stress.
vefeuqhot: ve-feu-qhot (CV-CVV-CVC)
niiqhep: nii-qhep (CVV-CVC)

Ephicentric vowel: a, consonant: '. (Written only intervocally.)




Pronouns:
ao	1S		koi	1P
lu	2
mof	3


Syntax
SVO. SOV in relative clause. 
Wh-in-situ. Serial verbs allowed; the last one is inflected only.

lu viina-k-hoi-la  ao-baa?
2  See-2-PERF-INT  1S-Mother
'Did you see my mother?'

mof-qiishe nemo-m-ti    kedar paa haa.
3-clan     build-3-IMPR house new big
'His clan is building a new, big house.'

Adjectives follow the noun. There can be more than one.

byusha tan   'ok     ta ao shuu-ka-hoi so-m vhao.
lamp   green REL.OBJ to me sell-2-PERF is-3 junk
'The green lamp you sold to me is junk.'

fhuu 'o       fex-ma-ti    ga-m   foimu haa.
woman REL.SUB sleep-3-IMPR have-3 wealth big.
'The woman who is sleeping is rich.'


ao xaon-e naz-a-hoi nyqud haa.
1  swim-? go-1-PERF river big
'I swam across the big river.'

ao xaonahoi nyqud haa
'I swam in the big river.'

ao nazahoi nyqud haa.
'I crossed the big river'

ao ve nembii    nazahoi nyqud haa
1  on yesterday crossed river big
'Yesterday I crossed the big river.'

vhaa  so-m lu-myud
which is-3 your-cousin
'Which is your cousin?'

fuugy o    ve aaqha   set  wek len-ma-hoi  so-m ao-myud
girl  REL  in fatness that all surpassing  is-3 my-cousin
'The fattest girl is my cousin.'
(Lit. 'The girl that is surpassing all of them in fatness is my cousin.')

Preposions:
ve 	 in/on/during
ta	 to/for (dative formation)
'u	 of (Genitive formation)
laot using, with (instrumental)
she	 with (assesive)
zen  from

Inflectional Morphology:
Agglutantive. Dominantly suffixing. Some productive
and much fossilized prefixing.

Subject agreement suffixes:
-ma, -m		3rd person
-ka, -k     2nd person
-a,  -'a	1st person

Aspect markers:
-hoi	Perfective
-ti		Imperfective
-la		Interrogative
-qoi	Inceptive
-naa	Cessative

na, -e - conjunction (and), suffix for serial verbs


Derivational Morphology:
aa- 	Adjective to Noun (quality of being X)
i-		Noun to Adjective (like X in some way)


Lexicon:
aasax		Bravery
ila        Not, no
iwoishu		Hot (adjective)
baa		Mother
byusha		Lamp
pao		Type of tree
pin		Hand
paf		Good
paa		New (adj)
den'oi		Kind of grass
diif		Good Food
toq		Coat
tan		Green (adjective)
taa		Father
foimu		Wealth
fex		To sleep
fhuu		Woman
fhakhi		Prestige
ifhakhi		Prestigous
viina		To see
veuty		Bed
vhao		Animal leavings, Junk
vhaq		Kinsman (In same kedar)
kedar		Communial Dwelling
kuu		Person, one
kheu		Ice
kha		Sun
gy		Child
ga    To have
gen		To inhabit
gaax		Rag
qaoma		Leader
quf		Fat (adjective)
qha		Dirt
qhaada	Desolate, Barren, Waste
qiishe		Clan
qheub		Kind of Edible Bird
siis		Kinsman (in other kedar)
sax		Brave, Virilile (adjective)
so        To be
set		That (distal demonstrative)
zik		Man
zoitu		To hunt
zaze		To walk
xeuxeu		Dry season
xap		Eating Utensil
xaon    To swim [in]
xiiqyu	Temporary, Ephemeral
rem		To hear
raoda		Blue (adjective)
rao			This (proximal demonstrative)
haa		Big (adjective)
heumet		Headman - Kedar patriarch
wety		Male Cousin
woishu		Fire
wek			All (adjective)
fhak		Stomach, Container
fhii		Star
fhaana		Important (adjective)
vheu'y		Poisonous (adjective)
shuu		To sell
shox		Outdoors, land
zhym		Edible Plant
zhaa'aq		To die
zhet		The past
mok		One (number)
mem		Only
myud		Female Cousin
nyqud    River
noi		To paint
nemo		To build, to prepare
niiqhep    Neekep
naz		To go, travel, pass
lak		Two (number)
laaki		To fill
len		To surpass
lenkhem		surpassing



Texts:
koi u  niiqhep ve rao  shox qhaada   mem so-m gen-mu    xiiqyu
we  of Niiqhep in this land desolate but is-3 reside-er temporary
'We Niiqhep are but temporary residents in this desolate land.'

ve zhet haa taabaa   u  koi zen  fhii naz-ma-ti        fhii
in past big ancestor of us  from star travel.to-3-IMPR star
'In the distant past our Ancestors traveled between the stars.'

kuu    u  koi gen-ma    shox haahaa  paf  lenkhem    u  rao shox
people of us  inhabit-3 land many    good surpassing of this land
'Our people lived on many beautiful worlds surpassing this one.'

Free translation:

 Even this 
desolate land was once rich and pleasant. But then came
a dark time. The ancestors turned away from their children on
this world, and slowly the forces of Chaos driven away by them
returned. The world turned back to a wasteland, as it is even
down to this day. Yet we live on in hope that they will return.