Horgóne

/xoɹg'one/

Consonants
IPA: Aspiration is written in the orthography with an 'h' next to the plosive (ph, th, ch). Voiceless velar plosives are written with 'c' and palatalizes to /c/ when in front of a front vowel, (i, e, y) as do their voiced counterparts. The letter 'h' applies to 'c' and 'g' in the same way; while in front of a front vowel it palatalizes (/ç/), and in front of a back vowel/open vowel it velarizes (/x/). Dental fricatives are written in the Germanic style (þ, ð). The glottal stop is an apostrophe, always between vowels. Where a 'k' appears it must be pronounced as such, i.e., as to not stray to palatalization when with a front vowel.

Orthography:

Vowels
Creaky vowels can "stain" consonants that fall after them; making velars into uvulars and others to become pharyngealized. Creaky vowels occur in the eastern dialect 2/3 as much as the French nasal vowels do, but in the west, they are simply long (ā, ē, ī, ō, ū, ȳ).

Diphthongs
ei, ai, oi, ui, ue, ua

Stress
Stress is usually penultimate, but can occur initially (only when its a vowel first) or finally.

a=V

k=C

kakáka

ákaka

kakaká

Grammar
Horgóne resembles a mix of Latin, Greek, and Arabic. Deriving noun and verb declensions/conjugations from Latin, the phonology and some of the grammar from Greek, and the root system from Arabic.

Nouns
Nouns are expressed in tri-consonantal root words that can relate phonetically to their verb roots (book is to read as song is to sing).

Conventions
Conventions exist in Horgóne that denote the gender/number of a declention; there are certain orderings of vowels that show the ending's meaning.

Group I:

Group II:

Group III : This has an alternating neuter vowel system.

Group IV:

Cases
The suffixes for case must agree with the number and gender of the noun.

Examples
For árþâf (man), kîláf (woman), bónt (ant).

(I): Verbal function cases

(II): Adpositional cases

(III): Class cases

Pronouns
Since all verbs are marked for person, there are no nominative pronouns. The fourth person equates to the English pronoun one, or the French pronoun on. 

Demonstratives
Demonstratives all decline like nouns.

Verbs
Verbs fall into two categories of transitive (those that take an object) or intransitive (those that do not). Seperate root affixes are applied in different ways to either. But here is a diagram that demonstrates the absolute constrution of verbs in Horgóne. Verbs take a veriety of endings that conjugate for Person, Tense, and Aspect.

Prefix-Prestem-Radical1-Infix1-Radical2-Infix2-Radical3-Suffix-Ending

Future Tense
Ai hageþþazíveṣ. -- Call me.

Past tense
The past tense is made by the prefix é- (shifting the word stress) to the entire verb, and uses the present tense endings.

Voice

 * the reciprocal voice must always be in the plural

Mood
Mood in Horgóne is conjugated by mutating I1 of the verb and in the Imperative R2 is geminated.

I went to the mountain. ~ Ékaligumo ty-hagídomy.

I want (for him to) that he go to the mountain. ~ Vahigúbal peu keligúvrek ty-hagídomy.

Go! ~ Kelligúza!

I would go, but... ~ Kéligumo, lópeu...

Infinitive
The infinitive is formed by putting neutral vowels between the root consonants. bgz - bagaz - to walk

Gerund
The gerund form of a verb is formed by adding the particle "hù" before the verb whilst already in the infinitive form but with the prefix á-.

hù ábagaz ~ that which is walking or walking

Gerundive
The gerundive form of verbs are made using the particle hù (grave accent used to differentiate from the third person masculine accusative pronoun) before the verb; meaning that which is, the imperative mood which is applied to the fourth person (one who must VERB), and of course the future tense.

Adjectives
For the stem vól- (good).

Numerals
â - one

do - two

teh - three

cats - four

ceni - five

sen - six

psŷh - seven

ocat - eight

wtun - nine

zisc - ten

â-zisc - eleven

do-zisc - twelve

...

vîgu - twenty

â-vîgu - twenty-one

do-vîgu - twenty-two

...

degw - thirty

â-degw - thirty-one

do-degw - thirty-two

...

catsah - forty

cenah - fifty

senah - sixty

psŷhah - seventy

ocatah - eighty

wtunah - ninety

âhwl - one hundred

Nouns
codah- - book (m.)

degad- - hand (m.)

huzag- - door (f.)

azugîb- - letter (f.)

egrapan- - food (m.)

cabém- - house (n.)

puasá- - fish (n.)

bihan- - party (f.)

kalaki- - shoe (f.)

énahar- - silver (f.)

ueskél- - gold (m.)

sabaman- - slave (n.)

îketil- - sheep (n.)

tanuh- - ox (m.)

imér- - donkey (m.)

aveho- - theif (n.)

árþaf- - man (m.)

kîláf- - woman (f.)

sjóram- - tower (n.)

cehóm- - string (n.)

Verbs
kzb - to read

hdh - to open

zhb - to send

kpn - to eat

dþm - to think

klg - to go

gbn - to have

bvn - to give

bgz - to walk

gjn - to bring

grm - to hate

glm - to sneak

hbl - to hold

lkg - to kill

gðm - to accept

vgm - to see

vgs - to walk

bls - to buy

hgn - to speak

bnm - to sit

dkl - to hit

vnb - to run

ghv - to destroy

Adjectives
vól- - good

hûl- - intense

kûn- - happy

bil- - lucky

sel- - big

pár- - small

lóst- - other

feut- - blue

khah- - red

bart- - green

zhon- - yellow

bag- - brown

duar- - black

lak- - white

sêk- - long

Particles
ai - used to differentiate the formally conjugated verbs from the informal second person verbs, or to make the first person plural conjugated verbs inclusive.

hù - that which is

Translations
Ṭaqirúbânt adu os-boḍénub as-ivápaq. (ṬQR - to chase (indicative, active, present, imperfective, plural, third person, masculine))

They are chasing a-me world's to end.

They are chasing me to the end of the world.