Ħautkar

The Ħautkar language is spoken by the Ħautar delûr. It may be related to Tehele and other Dreic languages, but it is more likely that they have simply been in close contact for a long time.

History
Ħautkar the most spoken Hautaric language descending from Proto-Hautaric.

Word formation
The usual process of word formation in Ħautkar is suffixation. Attaching suffixes and prefixes to the constituent root is seen throughout the language.

Ħautkar can loosely be described as having fusional nouns and analytic verbs. Most verbs have only two inflections, although some ’conjugable’ verbs can take more inflexions. The language is, by alignment, largely ergative-absolutive; however, both a volition-based fluid-S system and a system of animacy-hierarchical-ergative-marking operate.

Syntax
Ħautkar favors ergative alignment with known SOV (subject object verb) word order but the order of elements its not determined by grammatical roles and instead deals with focus and topic. Following rules for determining which is the focus and which is the topic are shown:

ʔilbe khâran ksiṭ
 * The focus precedes the verb.
 * The topic comes in the beginning of the sentence.

ERG-dog bones-PL-PL eat-NPST.REAL.3SG

"Dogs eat bones"