Kunari language

Kunari (Kunari: ⊼˥ Kaišauko, [kaiɕauko]) is a Japonic language of Northeast Asia which evolved from Japanese with significant slavic influence. It is spoken by ### people, mainly the Kunari people in Kunaria, where it is the national language.

Similar to Japanese, Kunari is an agglutinative, mora-timed language with with phonetic vowel and consonant length, diphthongs, nasalization, and a pitch-accent. It also has moderately simple phonotactics. Word order uses particles to indicate the grammatical function of words and follows the subject-object-verb pattern. Sentence-final particles are also used to add emotional or emphatic impact, or form questions. Kunari nouns are counted for grammatical number but not for gender, and there are no articles. Verbs are conjugated for tense, voice, and person. Adjectives are also conjugated. The Kunari language have a complex system of honorifics to indicate the relative status of the speaker, the listener, and the persons mentioned.

The Kunari language uses the Kunari alphabet, a unique featural alphabet similar in principle to the Korean language's hangul script. Historically, Chinese characters were used, as well as the Cyrillic script later on.

Vowels
Kunari has 8 vowels, comprising six oral vowels, and two nasal vowels. Vowel length is phonemic, with each having both a short and a long version. Long vowels are usually denoted with a line over the vowel (a macron) in romanization, and nasalized vowels are denoted with a circumflex. /u/ is unrounded.