Old Izhkut
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| Old Izhkut | |
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| Pokht-Izhkut, Old Ishcot | |
| dean ishcott | |
| Pronunciation | [ˈdʲɛn iʒkou̯t] |
| Created by | Jukethatbox |
| Date | 2025 |
| Setting | Radael |
| Native to | Pokht-Izhkutrëa |
| Ethnicity | Pokht-Izhkut people |
| Era | As a native language, 500 UH—10 BH |
Taskaric
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Early forms | Proto-Taskaric
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Old Izhkut(dean ishcott, Old Izhkut: [ˈdʲɛn iʒkou̯t]; Izhkut: mëja izhkut, [ˈmɛɟa iʒkut] [ˈmɛd͡ʒa iʒkut]), also called Pokht-Izhkut or Old Ishcot, is a classical language of the Ilyic branch of the Taskaric languages. It originally developed in the Petrum region, where it was the official language of most of the Petrucian city-states, and was the native language of most of the "Proto-Izhkut" peoples that would later become the Izhkut, Pokht and Ilyod.
Old Izhkut began to diverge into the Pokht-Izhkut languages around 10 UH; Ilyod was the first to be attested separately from Old Izhkut, when it was declared the national language of the emerging Kingdom of Ilyod(Old Izhkut: Iliodreag; Ilyod: Myerilyud). The growing Izhkutrëa followed suit shortly after at the turn of the BH, declaring Izhkut the administrative language of Izhkutrëa. Pokht, historically known for more conservative dialectology, took longer to be recognised as a separate language from Old Izhkut; this only occurred through Izhkut occupation, which, after invading and establishing Izhkut control over the former Pokht city-states, enforced a ban on the use of the Pokht language, which logically required an actual definition of a "Pokht" language.
Although spoken Old Izhkut is not intelligible with any modern descendant of the language, it still holds high prestige in Izhkut society; Old Izhkut is taught at a compulsory level from the start of middle school onwards, and prose was historically written almost exclusively in Old Izhkut until the publication of Blue Coasters in 222 BH. Although Izhkut modernists have rejected the use of Old Izhkut and championed the use of modern Izhkut, Old Izhkut still takes an important part in Izhkut society.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Dental | Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | plain | p b | t d | k g | ||||
| palatalised | tʲ dʲ | |||||||
| Fricative | ɸ β | θ ð | s z | ʃ ʒ | x | h | ||
| Nasal | m | n̪ | (n) | ɲ | ŋ | |||