Hohojiro

Hohojiro is an Eastern Clanic language continuum, which includes Hojiro, Wajiro, Ujiro, and Injiro (also, many natives include Najiro as well) languages. There's "Classic Hohojiro" language, which is mostly a mix of most common features between languages within continuum

Hohojiro
T̬̊T̬̊V̝̈X̩̊
Pronunciation	[ho.ho.'ɟi.ɾo]
Created by	Tilt5951
Date	9870s
Native to	Hohojiro Republic(official), Free State of Najiro(second official language)
Ethnicity	Hohojiro people
Native speakers	~1092865(in Hohojiro Republic) (12036)
Language family	Clanic language family Hohojiro
Early forms	Proto-Clanic Proto-Eastern Clanic Old Hojiro OId Hohojiro

Background

Hohojiro language is a Eastern Clanic language, that is a branch of Clanic language family of Clani-Cephalopodic language marcofamily

Phonology

Hohojiro has 21 consonant phonemes

Consonants

		Bilabial		Labio-Dental		Alveolar		Post-alveolar		Palatal		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Plosives		p				t, d				c, ɟ		k, g
Nasals						n				ɲ		ŋ
Trills						r
Taps and Flaps		ɓ		ⱱ		ɾ
Fricatives				f		s, z		ʃ		ç				χ		h
Approximants		w		ʋ						j
Lateral Approximants										ʎ

Notes:

• Hohojiro language has no sound of /m/, but uses /ɓ/ instead if needed

Vowels

		Front		Middle		Near-back		Back
Close		i		ɨ
Near-Close						ʊ
Close-mid		e						o
Mid				ə
Open-mid							ʌ, ɔ
Open		a						ɑ, ɒ

Prosody

The stress in the Hohojiro language is on the penultimate syllable of the word, if it's native

Grammar

Syntax

In Hohojiro syntax is mostly OVS.

Nouns

Cases

Hohojiro has 18 cases:

• Nominative
• Ergative
• Dative
• Accusative
• Instrumental
• Locative
• Genitive
• Ablative
• Vocative
• Allative
• Temporalis
• Inessive
• Illative
• Elative
• Adessive
• Subessive
• Translative
• Terminative
• Superessive