Hagt

Hagt (Hagt: [hakt̪]) is the language natively spoken in the city of Kint and the areas around it. As a result of the strategic position of this city, it also serves as the lingua franca of a vast area in Western Noco, known as the Kint area of influence, has become the language of culture and high literature within this region and has had an extensive influence on all the languages spoken within this area.

Consonants
Consonants between parentheses are allophones.

Aspirated stops are only used in learned borrowings and are usually pronounced as a series of a voiceless stop plus /h/ by lower class people. Hypercorrection may lead some to pronounce words that originally contained the sequence /Th/ as [Tʰ].

/c/ is an expressive variant of /k/ used to create diminutives.

Vowels
/ə/ never appears in stressed position.

Phonotactics

 * Hagt’s syllable structure is (s/z)(S){[(S)(L)]/N/h}V(R)(N)(C)(C)(C/N/l).
 * Voiced stops and fricatives are devoiced at the end of a word or before another voiceless consonant.
 * Voiceless consonants other than /h/ are voiced before another voiced consonant.
 * /m, n, l/ are [m̥, n̥, l̥] word finally after a stop or fricative.
 * /n/ becomes [m, n̪, ŋ] before the respective stops.

Grammar
The grammar of Hagt is extremely agglutinative compared to that of Classical Taot, with nouns, pronouns, adjectives and verbs inflecting for a wide diversity of grammatical properties.

Nouns
All nouns belong to either of two genders: animate or inanimate; these are only relevant when declining words, there is no agreement. They inflect for five (animate) or nine (inanimate) cases and for two or three numbers (some words retain a dual number).