Horgóne

/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
[       ] The equation above shows the grammar of Horgóne. The underlined parts must be in a sentence.

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 ~ Tosadja - 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. - sohóvjun aku codáham

The book! - cadahî!

They read using books. - cozófjun 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.

Verbs
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: Keep reading.

Adjectives
For the stem vól- (good).

Adverbs
Adverbs are formed with a beginning separate particle and the suffix -wjw (/əjə/) which means -ness in English. Similar to the construct with x-ness. Examples:

He ate the fastest. - Côponun ja cûnu'asa'wjw.

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

Word List
c-d-h - book

c-z-f - to read

h-z-g - door

h-d-h - to open

s-g-b - letter

s-h-b - to send

g-p-n - food

c-p-n - to eat