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'''Old Knánith''' is the form of [[[Knánith]] spoken before 9th century CE.
'''Old Knánith''' is the form of [[Knánith]] spoken before 9th century CE.
==Phonology==
==Phonology==
===Orthography===
===Orthography===

Revision as of 00:04, 8 October 2019

Old Knánith is the form of Knánith spoken before 9th century CE.

Phonology

Orthography

Consonants

/m p b f v n t d θ ð ts s z ʃ ɰ̃ ħ k g x h l w j r/ m p b f v n t d th dh ts s/x z š ȝ ħ k g kh h l w y r

Glottal reinforcement (transcribed by tt kk, pronounced /ʔt ʔk/) occurs before historical Biblical Hebrew emphatics /tʼ kʼ tsʼ/, and also analogically in some other cases (cf. Glottalic PIE > RP English).

/l/ allophonically velarized before C.

Mutations

Words can undergo initial lenition, as in Irish and Tiberian Hebrew:

p- b- t- d- k- g- > f- v- th- dh- kh- Ø-

Vowels

Old Knánith had a rather simple vowel system:

a e i o u ø á é í ó ú /a e i o u a: e: i: o: u:/

Prosody

Stress

Stress is always penultimate, except with some verbs where the lV- prefix does not have the stress.

Intonation

Morphophonology

Grammar

Still basically Hebrew (except with penultimate stress), with inflected verbs.

Nouns

Verbs

Verbs had the following forms:

  • Past
  • Non-past
  • Imperative
  • Infinitive