Ancient Hajdossa

Ancient Hajdossa
Language family	Hajdic
Early form(s)	Prehistoric Hajdossa
Official status
Spoken in	Hajdis (supplanted by future forms of Hajdossa)
Speaker
Technical information

Notice:

This page is still being translated from Hajdis-Vonavelt Mellanglossa, and is thus incomplete.

Ancient Hajdossa is the first documented stage of Hajdossa, defined by the first complete grammar of the language. Writing was not yet invented, but that wasn't needed, as HVM, which was already written with the latin script, already existed.

Phonology

The phonology of Ancient Hajdossa was able to be recorded due to the IPA already being in use.

Ancient Hajdossa had 17 phonemic consonants:

	Labial	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar/Palatal	Velar	Uvular/Laryngeal
Plosive	p	t		k	q, ʔ ⟨'⟩
Fricative	f	θ ⟨þ⟩, s	ʃ ⟨š⟩	x	ħ, h
Nasal	m	n		ŋ
Liquid		ɾ ⟨r⟩, ɬ ⟨ł⟩	j

Ancient Hajdossa had 4 phonemic vowels:

	Front	Non-front
Close	i, iː ⟨ii⟩	o, oː ⟨oo⟩
Non-close	e, eː ⟨ee⟩	a

Hajdossa also has the following diphthongs: ia, ie, io, ao, ea, ei, ai, oi

Syllable structure: (C)V(C)

• Only the first syllable can be without an onset

Stress falls on the first syllable with a long vowel or diphthong, otherwise it falls on the first syllable

Syntax

Ancient Hajdossa had a strictly SOV word order.

Adjectives originated from nouns and are preceded by the word they modify:

þiik łaxe riałe maoš

person fire much see

"The person sees a lot of fire"

Vocabulary

Notice:

These words were made mainly for testing out grammar stuffs, and thus they are not final.

Hajdossa Vocabulary

Nouns
Word	Meaning	Notes
ħaitis	Hajdis
łaxe	fire
þiik	person/soul	means both due to speakers being dead
Pronouns
Word	Meaning	Notes
tao	1sɢ
qox	2sɢ
ŋiat	3sɢ
Adjective-Adverbs
Word	Meaning	Notes
o'eajaa	cursed	o'eaia (cursed in a sense similar to that of the CCC)
riałe	much/many
Verbs
Word	Meaning	Notes
maoš	to see