Colloquial Hagt

Colloquial Hagt refers to nonstandard spoken variety of the Hagt language, in contrast with the standard form of the language. It is used primarily by the commoners in Kint and varies depending on the place of origin and socioeconomic status of the speaker.

Standard Hagt is spoken in and around the city of Kint by the aristocracy and as a written language. The commoners of Kint, however, are mostly illiterate and not formally educated in the the standard variety.

Phonology

 * Most instances of /nr/ are reduced to /r/, for example nnrul becomes rrul  "he is". One exception is unreduced compounds, such as hiknrreu  "change of direction of the wind".
 * Geminates are reduced before another consonant or at the end of a word. For example, nannk becomes nank "bear".
 * The plosives /p, b, d, ɡ/ lenite to fricatives [ɸ, β, ð, ɣ], except when geminated or after a nasal (except for /p/, which lenites in all contexts). For example, nempign becomes nmpig  "sea".
 * Voiceless sonorants [m̥, n̥, l̥] are deleted. For example, hīgn becomes heig  "fast".
 * Sonorants preceded by a schwa become nucleic. For example, uten becomes utn  "breath".
 * The velar approximant [ɣ] is palatalised to [ʝ] before /i/.
 * The labiovelar fricative /ʍ/ merges with /p/ and becomes [ɸ]. For example, hūk becomes peuk  "ship".
 * Long vowels become diphthongs with schwa. For example, āg becomes eag "to yawn", bī becomes bei "to bind", sū becomes seu "to sneeze".
 * The consonant clusters /kt, ps, mbz, sksC/ become [ht, s, mz, ŋk, sC].
 * Additionally, some outer dialects preserve word-initial /ɾ/, which became /d/ in most inner varieties in Kint.

Grammar
Colloquial Hagt has a few innovations in grammar. Various colloquial periphrastic constructions replace inflected ones, for example, the use of the verb meumt (from mūmmt "to want") as an auxiliary verb to form the volitive mood instead of the interfix -nt-. The noun forming suffix -en becomes an infinitive marker. The second-person singular prefix becomes nen- instead of ne-.

Lagsīsasnū
Lagsīsasnū (Hagt:, literally "criminal language") is a type of argot used by criminals and mobs in Kint as a form of secret language. It has greatly influenced the speech of the lower classes and many colloquial terms across all social strata originated in Lagsīsasnū.

Plūgkem
Plūgkem (Hagt: ) is a specific form of Lagsīsasnū that features inversion of syllables in a word. The word Plūgkem is itself an example of Plūgkem. It is derived from the word emplūgk (meaning "upside-down, reverse").

Words in Plūgkem are formed by switching the order in which syllables from the original word are pronounced. For example, sasát becomes sása (/t/ is lost before /s/). In addition, longer words are often clipped. For example, erzī ('to hit') becomes zīr ('to fuck') and sīsdteknā ('policeman') becomes teksīs (from sīsdtek).