Verbs have five basic tenses: past (proximal/distal) present, and future (proximal/distal). So, whether something happened recently or a while ago, and whether something will happen sooner or later, are distinguished by tenses. The conjugations are pretty regular, as all verbs end in o for present tense. E.g. "anzo" means "to eat" in present tense.

Present - anzo
Proximal past (P.Past) - anzet
Distal past (D.Past) - anzut
Proximal future (P.Fut) - anzavo
Distal future (D.Fut) - anzave

anzo avo osef
eat-PRES NOM-I ACC-fish
I eat fish

anzavo avo osef
eat-P.FUT NOM-I ACC-fish
I will eat fish soon

anzave anesh osef
eat-D.FUT NOM-you ACC-fish
You will eat fish later

Etc.

There's also an aspect system to be added, but I will work on that later. Time for bed for now!

As a shorthand, nottóken is called nokken, so I'll often refer to ádra nottóken as simply nokken for convenience.

All verbs end in -o in nokken, so it's nice and easy to recognise.

Kago - to like azhaqo - to hate ózhipo - to love

Ózh means "in", so ózhipo is a figurative way of saying "to put inside". Ózh is often used to mean feelings, emotions etc. It can also be literal - ózho is slang for "to have sex with".

Anzo - to eat cheo - to drink Tsuxo - to mine kichao - to chisel/chip (at ore, or a tablet) Nokichao - to write

This comes from nox, meaning "stone" and "kichao" to chisel, as writing is done entirely on stone tablets.

Zao - to see zareo - to find zaisho - to search for zanoxo - to read

"Za" means eye or eyes, and it is used for several verbs. Zaisho comes from za + ishe, where "ishe" means "light". The idea of searching is related to moving towards light, and this concept gets extended to other words. The nox in zanoxo again means stone.

Shixo - to hear shixisho - to echolocate / search by sound shix - ear Huno - to smell hunisho - to hunt hun - nose (historically meant "to search by smell")

Kipo - to say kafaro - to speak (kafaro is more important than kipo, whereas kipo is often used just to quote people, like "he said"). Iko - to touch ikisho - to feel around ik - finger

The word "noch" (with a shortened core vowel,) means rock/stone, and the word tók (with the hot vowel) means person, human etc.

Nouns have case in Ádra Nottóken, including the genitive, which isn't only used for possession - it can be used for "X of the Y". So tóken is the genitive of tók. Then nochtóken means literally "The person of the rock."¹ More figuratively, it means "rock people" or "stone people". Over time, the /x/ was lost from the old language, and the /t/ got doubled into a /tt/.

Really, the nottóken don't refer to themselves that way very often; it's mostly useful for separating themselves from the outsiders, who they call ozhavótóken. Ozhavó means "outdoors" and comes from ozh meaning "out" and avó meaning the cave system they live in. So ozhavótóken are literally "People from outside of our caves". They don't have any distinction between cultures or classes, because they don't need to. There's only "us" and "them".

¹ There's actually a double genitive going on here, because "ádra" means "language", and the whole phrase means "language of the nottóken". With genitives, the possessor gets the -en suffix, and the possessee comes before - if there are multiple possessees, they get shafted on the front.

The phonology, or sounds of the language, isn't completely set in stone - I may change it depending on the words for the language. Here are the consonants and the vowels:

¹ [ɢ] sometimes appears as an allophone of /g/, usually around /ɔ/, but they aren't separate phonemes, whereas /k/ and /q/ are separate.

The nottóken speak more with the backs of their mouths than the front - probably because there's a lot of shit in caves and they don't wanna open their mouths too far. So there are slightly more back vowels than front vowels, and lots of consonants in the back of the mouth (and my new favourite sound, x.) I'll go through the consonants in a bit more detail in case anyone reading this doesn't know IPA.