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-'''Chuaimisc''' (natively ''Chuaimisc hoch'' /xuəmʲisʲc hox/) is a Greek and Irish-inspired [[Azalic]] language. It is significantly more agglutinative than English, and has broad and slender consonants like Irish.
+'''K̔uamništ''' (natively ''K̔uamništ goč̔'' /kʰuəmniʃt goʰtʃ/) is an [[Azalic]] language. It is significantly more agglutinative than English.
+K̔uamništ has two dialects, a Southern one (leniting of medial aspirated stops to ''h'', turning some umlauted vowels in Proto-Azalic into long vowels), and a Northern one which has ejectives.
+It's in a sprachbund with [[Kwenya]], a Hellenic language, and [[Anorite]], a Semitic language.
+Khuamnisht and Greek are the classical languages of Buddhism in Lõis.
+==Phonology==
+à /ɔ/
+o may be /œ/
+p̔ t̔ c̔ č̔ k̔ /pʰ tʰ tsʰ tʃʰ kʰ/
+v x y /v x j/
+==Some sound changes==
+Initial *a (from initial PAzal *o) -> ya in some words (koineized)
+PAzal *ə -> e
+xuan, tà, t̔ria, p̔rur, p̔àx, šak, šavt, yaxt, nin, caxen
+erkencaš, t̔ricaš, p̔rucaš, p̔àxcaš, šacaš, šavencaš, yaxcaš, nivcaš, k̔en
+: t̔usk̔en
 ==Morphology==
 ===Nouns===
-Chuaimisc nouns fall into three declension classes. First declension nouns pluralize by slenderizing their final consonants, and second declension nouns pluralize by adding final ''-a'' or ''-e''. Most nouns belong to the third declension, where nouns pluralize in ''-s'', ''-as'', or ''-es''.
+K̔uamništ nouns fall into three declension classes. First declension nouns pluralize by slenderizing their final consonants, and second declension nouns pluralize by adding final ''-e''. Most nouns belong to the third declension, where nouns pluralize in ''-t̔'' or ''-et̔''.
+Nouns in K̔uamništ have ten cases: ergative, absolutive, genitive, dative, instrumental, comitative, essive, locative, translative and distributive.
-Like in Greek and unlike in Irish, there are no morphological mutations.
+===Adjectives===
-Nouns in Chuaimisc have ten cases: ergative, absolutive, genitive, dative, instrumental, comitative, essive, locative, translative and distributive.
+Unlike nouns, adjectives do not inflect.
 ===Verbs===
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 ! style="width: 90px;" |
-! style="width: 100px;" | Weak: ''lupha'' 'love'
+! style="width: 100px;" | Weak: ''lov'' 'love'
-!  style="width: 100px;" | Strong: ''bhéd'' 'bind'
+!  style="width: 100px;" | Strong: ''bent'' 'bind'
-!  style="width: 100px;" | Semi-strong: ''choll'' 'grasp'
+!  style="width: 100px;" | Semi-strong: ''k̔olt'' 'grasp'
 |-
 ! Imperative
-| ''lupha!'' || ''bhéd!'' || ''choll!''
+| ''lov!'' || ''bent!'' || ''k̔olt!''
+|-
+! Present progressive
+| ''lovaš'' || ''bentaš'' || ''k̔oltaš''
 |-
-! Present
+! Present habitual and aorist
-| ''lupha(is)'' || ''bhéd(ais)'' || ''choll(ais)''
+| ''lovel'' || ''bentel'' || ''k̔oltel''
 |-
 ! Preterite
-| ''lalupha(is)'' || ''bhaibhéd(ais)'' || ''cacholl(ais)''
+| ''ollovaš'' || ''ebbentaš'' || ''okk̔oltaš''
 |-
 ! Subjunctive (PAz irrealis + *wekw-)
-| ''laluphóc(ais)'' || ''bhédóc(ais)'' || ''chollóc(ais)''
+| ''ollovač̔aš'' || ''ebbentač̔aš'' || ''okk̔oltač̔aš''
 |-
 ! Future (PAz irrealis + *h2el-)
-| ''luphall(ais)'' || ''bhédall(ais)'' || ''chollall(ais)''
+| ''lovlaš'' || ''bentlaš'' || ''k̔oltlaš''
 |-
 ! Perfect (PAz stative + *steh2-)
-| ''luphasta(is)'' || ''bhédsta(is)'' || ''chollsta(is)''
+| ''lovt̔aš'' || ''bentt̔aš'' || ''k̔oltt̔aš''
 |-
 ! Pluperfect (PAz stative + *ste-steh2-)
-| ''luphasast(ais)'' || ''bhédsast(ais)'' || ''chollsast(ais)''
+| ''lovsat̔aš'' || ''bentsat̔aš'' || ''k̔oltsat̔aš''
 |-
 ! Active part.
-| ''luphad'' || ''bhédad'' || ''chollad''
+| ''lovnt̔'' || ''bentnt̔'' || ''k̔oltnt̔''
 |-
 ! Passive part.
-| ''luphadh'' || ''bhédann'' || ''chollann''
+| ''lovad'' || ''bentad'' || ''k̔oltad''
 |}
+==Syntax==
+Inspiration: poetic English, Urdu
+Khuamnisht syntax is SOV head-initial like [[Anorite]], but may be OSV or very occasionally SVO. Imperative and optative clauses use VSO syntax.
+Khuamnisht is never pro-drop: ''Yet ye sebedžàt̔as!'' "Eat the vegetables!"
 [[Category:Azalic languages]]