Namah

The Namah language (Natively: Namaḩ , /na.'maħ/) is a language spoken across Southern Kejafros; predominately by the minority Villager community. It has also taken prominence as a language used for religious rites and purposes.
It is closely related to various other languages spoken by Villagers - particularly Hhu. However, Namah has a number of unique features and bares many close ties to other Kejafrosian languages including Baszku, Ischanic, Herlundine, and others. It is not mutually intelligible with many of the other dialects and languages spoken by the Villagers of the world because of its unique characteristics formulated after centuries of slavery and subjugation by the Humans of Kejafros in addition to geographic separation.
==Grammar==
===Sentence structure===
The Namah language uses a SVO (Subject-Verb-Object) sentence structure. Adjectives are placed prior to what they are describing. There is no adjective-noun agreement, with the adjective not being modified when the noun is.
===Stress===
In words with multiple syllables, stress is placed on the final syllable regardless of the ending sound.
===Word morphology===
There are a number of ways a base/root word can be changed in Namah.
*Pluralization, indicating two or more of something, can be shown with the suffix -'i, this is pronounced with the consonant /j/ preceding it when attached to words that end with a vowel.
*Verb conjugation, there are a number of ways in which verbs can be conjugated, both with prefixes and suffixes. These are separated from the base word using an apostrophe similarly to pluralization.
*The suffix -ma, or sometimes -a, can be added to a base word to indicate somewhere where that base word is present. For instance, the word "haqas" means "war", while "haqasma" means "battlefield".
*The suffix -am, or something -m, can be added to a base word to indicate someone who works with the base word. For instance, the word "hahyad" is a verb meaning "to store", while a "hahyadam" is a noun meaning a "wealthy person".
*The suffix -kah indicates an ideology or movement of some kind. For instance the word "qum" is a verb meaning "to create", while the word for "Gonfism" is "Qumkah", referring to one of the names of God in Namah, which is "Qumam".
*The suffix -liş is a suffix indicating a diminutive, or a smaller form of something. For instance, the word "ḩuşam" is equivalent to "my love", while "ḩuşamliş", is a slang term which loosely translates to "my little love".
*To transform a base word into an adjective, the suffix -ya can be added.
*To transform an adjective into a noun, the suffix -niş may be added. This is called nominalization.
*To form a gerund, you can add the suffix -yas. For instance, the word "han" is a verb meaning "to fight", while the word "hanyas" means "fighting", and can refer to PvPing.
===Verb conjugation===
All verbs can be conjugated using the following suffixes. In words that, in their standard form, end in a vowel, the consonant /j/ is pronounced between the base word and the suffix. This also applies when the verb is in past or future tense, whereby a prefix is used. For instance, if the word "dinaḩ" is a verb meaning "to fall", the word "ma'dinaḩ'i", would mean "I fell". This would be pronounced /ma.dɪ.na.'ħjɪ/.
 	Singular	Plural
First person 	‘i 	‘işk
Second person	‘ik 	‘um
Third person 	‘an 	‘u̧ş
Future tense 	ka’
Past tense (preterite)	ma’
==Phonology==
There are sixteen total sounds that are used in standard dialects of the Namah language.
===Consonants===
There a total of eleven consonant sounds in the Namah language.
 	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palato-alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Labial-velar	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Nasal 	/m/ 	/n/ 	 	 	 	 	 	
Stop 	/p/ 	/d/ 	 	 	/k/ 	 	 	
Fricative 	 	/s/ 	/ʃ/ 	 	 	 	/ħ/ 	/h/
Approximant	 	 	 	/j/ 	 	/w/ 	 	
===Vowels===
There are a total of five vowel sounds in the Namah language.
 	Front	Back
High 	/i/ 	/u/
Near-High	/ɪ/ 	/ʊ/
Low 	/a/ 	
==Orthography==
===Alphabet===
Phonemes
(Int. Phonetic Alphabet)	Grapheme/Letter in Namah	Example in Namah
/i/	< I̧ , i̧ > 	i̧şi̧yam
(discoverer)
/ɪ/	< I , i > 	inyi̧yam
(refugee)
/u/	< U̧ , u̧ > 	u̧qak
(pen)
/ʊ/	< U , u > 	usad
(to unite)
/a/	< A , a > 	adu̧
(human)
/m/	< M , m > 	mi̧ḩupa
(teardrop)
/n/	< N , n > 	nini̧şma
(metropolis)
/p/	< P , p > 	paqima
(castle)
/d/	< D , d > 	damaş
(song)
/s/	< S , s > 	sakqi
(republic)
/ʃ/	< Ş , ş > 	şiḩapam
(employee)
/j/	< Y , y > 	yimqiyam
(liar)
/k/	< K , k > 	kaqamasma
(barracks)
/w/	< Q , q > 	qumam
(creator)
/ħ/	< Ḩ , ḩ > 	ḩanmi̧
(airship)
/h/	< H , h > 	haqasam
(warrior)
==Vocabulary==
===Pronouns===
 	Nominative	Accusative	Possessive
1st person singular 	iş 	işid 	işah
2nd person singular 	ka 	ka 	kayah
3rd person singular, masculine 	diş 	dişah 	dişah
3rd person singular, feminine 	hiş 	hişah 	hişah
3rd person singular, neuter/inanimate	uş 	uşah 	uşah
1st person plural 	qaş 	qaşid 	qaşah
2nd person plural 	quşa 	quşa 	quşa
3rd person plural 	si̧h 	si̧hid 	si̧hah
===Articles===
Articles are tacked onto the beginning of a word. For instance, to say "the dog", you would take the base word for dog, "muka" and add the prefix. To say "the dog", you would say "ki-muka" in Namah. If you were referring to multiple specific dogs however, you would have to say "şi-muka'i", making the base word plural and using the definite plural article.
 	Definite	Indefinite
Singular	ki- 	hiş-
Plural 	şi- 	hiş-
===Negation===
In order to negate something, the word "yu" is added beforehand. For instance, the phrase "Yu haşih'ik!", means "do not speak!".
===Written examples===
Passages from the Codex Aetherni
Namah 	Traveller's Tongue
Ma'şiḩ'u̧ş aqad ki-aqisaya Dapu u̧ Ḩimi̧ du̧ uşah dapuş'i ma'saqik'an sah yu̧pa u̧ iqah sah uşah aqisa ma'kaqip'an şi-haḩun'i u̧ şi-şunyu'i sah şi-qak'i u̧ şi-hi̧nu̧ya akud'i.	They worked under the bright Aether’s sun and its rays touched every pore of skin and its light filled the crevasses of the ravines and the slopes of the distant volcanoes.
Yu hyis'ik qah. Ki-işqa u̧ ki-qaku̧sa aqi̧'an kiş aqi'ik mu̧kdi̧ u̧, sak ka, kas [qa] ki-Sadu̧n u̧ şi-Sadu̧n'i, aqi̧'ik sah atuş'i. 	You will not desire. The void of the soul is what you lack, but you, as [with the] Almighty, are everything.
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