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
Language code	AHD

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, aː ⟨aa⟩

Hajdossa also has the following diphthongs: ao, oe, ea, ei, ai, oi

Syllable structure: (C)V(C)

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

Syntax

Ancient Hajdossa had a mainly SOV word order.

Eigenschaftsworts originated from nouns and precede the word they modify:

þiik riałe łaxe maoš

person much fire see

"The person sees a lot of fire"

Prepositions (go before words) and possessives before the possessee.