Residual Case Marking

Low Qhālan greatly reduces the inherited High Qhālan case system. Most ordinary speech relies on word order and context rather than explicit case suffixes.

Some older case forms survive:

in formal storytelling
in oath-speaking
in trade contracts
in route names
in ceremonial phrases

Surviving Cases

Case	Common Survival
Genitive	common
Locative	occasional
Ablative	fossilized
Instrumental	mostly formal

Reduced Case Forms

Older Form	Low Qhālan
-ar	-ar / -r
-al	-al / -l
-ath	-at
-ud	-u

Examples:

balar = of the land
moral = at the sea
ǀarat = by oath
balau = from the land

Word Order Preference

Because case marking weakens, Low Qhālan relies more heavily on fixed word order than High Qhālan.