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
WIP

Phonology
Ħautkar has a fairly large consonant inventory, and a small vowel inventory (although, however, a lot of allophony is present in the vowel system.)

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
Hautkar favors ergative alignement 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:

ʻeluba kha-a-r-an ksi-ṭ
 * The focus preceeds the verb.
 * The topic come in the beginning of the sentence.

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

"Dogs eat bones"

Evolution
From pre-Hautkar to the Hautkar spoken in 500AGS we see changes such as