Ignan

Ignan is a member of the Primordial language family. Spoken mainly by inhabitants of Sohep, the phonology of Ignan is restricted to the sounds producible by fire elementals. Ignan thus relies far more heavily on fricatives and voiceless stops than any other known language.

Phonology
The phonology of Ignan is mostly shared with the other members of the Primordial language family. Phonemes unique to Ignan are noted in bold.

Consonants
Ignan famously incorporates rather rare consonants, such as the bilabial implosive ɓ̥ and the lateral click ǁ. To ease transliteration, these are often written as “p” and “q”, respectively.

Noun Declension
Being an active-stative language, Ignan places high emphasis on noun declension. Interestingly, Ignan features no single "patient" noun case, but instead divides the "patient" functionality between four more specific cases.

Below is the declension paradigm of Ignan ithset “brass” (a regular "-set" noun declension):

Below is the declension paradigm of Ignan aphis "deity" (a regular "-s" noun declension): Below is the declension paradigm of Ignan jot "city" (a regular "-t" noun declension):

Indirect Verbs
Ignan has a unique tendency to have implied or otherwise absent verbs. This occurs most often in titles and names, which may appear to be made of only nouns. In such cases, the nouns can be seen as analogous to adjectives.

Lexicon

 * Aphis (n): god or goddess; deity in general
 * Gihidat (n): a beast of burden found in many regions of the Elemental Plane of Fire.
 * Haset (n): face
 * Hesht (n): ash
 * Jot (n): city
 * Ithset (n): brass
 * Pashot (n): kingdom, empire