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Kostekan
Defetyasik, Vjultitahko, Kostekask
Native to	Kostek
Native speakers	95,000
Language family	language isolate
Writing system	Latin script, Native Script
Language codes
ISO 639-3	–

Kostekan is a language spoken in the north and west of Kostek. It has two chief dialects: Defetyasik, spoken mostly in the west; and Vjultitahko, spoken mainly in the north. The two dialects are mostly mutually intelligible.

Phonology

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Post- alveolar	Velar	Uvular
Nasal		m		n
Plosive	voiceless	p		t		k	q
	voiced	b	d
Fricative	voiceless	f			ʃ	x	χ
	voiced	v			ʒ
Approximant			l		j

Vowels

	Front	Back
Close	[i]	[u]
Mid	[e]	[o]
Open-mid	[ɛ]	[ʌ]
Open	[a]	[ɑ]

Grammar

Kostekan is an agglutinative language. One example of this is the word Torikukumahamodeskdahnaraindohristidahnultikok, which means "People who converted to Christianity from Islam".

Torikukumahamodeskdahnaräindohristidahnaultikok can be split into the following parts:

Torik - Change
uku - Past tense marker, third person plural
mahamod - Mohammad
esk - Genitive marker
dahna - Religion
räindo - Towards
hristi - Christ
dahna - Religion
ultik - Person
ok - Plural

The language has no articles or gender.