Qaertosan

Qaertosan is a language spoken in Qaertos.

Consonants
There is one co-articulated consonant, w /w/.

Verbs
Qaertosan is agglutinative: verb conjugations are appended to the infinitive as suffixes. In informal usage, suffixes can be dropped if they are clear from context, and sometimes even the infinitive can be used.

These suffixes all consist of one vowel followed by one consonant. If there are multiple suffixes, they can be added in any order without changing the meaning. There is no ambiguity, however, as the infinitive of a verb always ends in l, and each class of conjugation also uses a specific consonant, so these are easy to distinguish: person/number conjugations end in g, and tense conjugations end in z.

Numbers
Qaertosan uses a relatively unusual numbering system, based on base 10. The digits 0 to 9 are all single syllables, ending in either š or ž: A number with multiple digits is constructed by simply concatenating each digit in the decimal expansion of that number: for example, 10 is išaž - "one-zero". When a number has a single digit or a string of digits repeated many times, it is possible to use the set of syllables ak-yk-øk. This represents the following: (the number between ak and yk) repeats of (the string between yk and øk). For example, 2333334 could be written as åšakyšykežøkuž - "two-five repeats of 'three'-four". Note that this actually requires the same number of syllables as simply writing out the decimal expansion, åšežežežežežuž, which is why the ak-yk-øk system is only commonly used when there are many or long repeats, in which case it would lessen the amount of required syllables. Another example of the ak-yk-øk system: 136136136 could be written as akežykišežëžøk - "three repeats of 'one-three-six'".

A decimal point is represented by uk, and infinity (used inside ak-yk-øk for recurring decimals) is represented by on (which is also the word for infinity). For example, 2000000.33333... could be written as åšakëžykažøkukakonykežøk - "two-six repeats of 'zero'-decimal point-infinitely many repeats of 'three'".