Horgóne

Phonology
/xoɹg'one/

Consonants
Aspiration is written in the orthography with an 'h' next to the plosive (ph, th, kh). Voiceless velar plosives are written with 'c' and palatalizes to /c/ when in front of a front vowel, (i, e, y) as does 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.

Vowels
-circumflex for glottalization-

Clusters
In the table below, we see all the possible combinations of consonant clusters in Horgóne.

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)'. t-s-d, the root word for person, can be declined for definitiveness (infix), number (suffix), and can take a prefix (ba-) and a mutation that can relate the noun to a semantic part.

Tosad ~ Tasad - A person ~ The person

Tosad ~ Tosadya - A person ~ Some people

Tosad ~ Batosað - A person ~ A child

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

For c-d-h (book): A book is. - codahé

A book opened. - codah hodohan

A book was read. - codaho couzofan

The book's page is. - cadáhab bacada'é

They sent him a book. - sohóvyun aku codáham

The book! - cadahî!

They read using books. - cozófyun codahai

at the book - cadahys

to the book - cadahan

from the book - cadaham

Pronouns
For subject pronouns, an affix is inserted into the first consonant space of a verb. The equivalent of fourth person in English is: ''One mustn't look. (éthaþytastanló)''

To read, in the present tense and imperfective aspect:

Cezasfuz. - I am reading.

Cuzasfuz. - you are reading

Cozasfuz. - he is reading

Cyzasfaz, - one is reading

Verbs
{[M-(( R-(ap)-R-(at)-R )-N,G)]-A-V} = Verb

Take for example, this fully conjugated verb:

Áchuncuzasfuz.

[áchun-c-u-z-as-f-u-z]

Here there is a tri-consonantal root word for to read: c-z-f

The morpheme -u- denotes that it is in the second person form.

The morpheme -as- puts the verb into the present tense.

The suffix -u is the masculine singular gender/number.

The suffix -z makes the verb progressive/imperfective aspect.

The prefix áchun- marks the mood as imperative (a command).

Thus the word means: ''Read! (continue to do so)''

Mood
Mood is expressed by prefixes that agree with the person, number and gender of the verb they accompany.

Voice
Active

Middle

Passive