User:IlL/A Danified analytic Neo-Arabic/Ancient

Druidic Hebrew is the stage of Xnánið after the split from Biblical Hebrew in the 6th century BC and before 9th century CE.

It was the liturgical language of Canaanite druidism before the religion was supplanted by Henosis Ousias.

Phonology

Orthography

Druidic Hebrew is written in an abjad descended from the Proto-Hebrew script. Religious texts were vocaluzed but not completely.

Consonants

/m p b f v n t d th θ ð ts s tsʼ ʃ ɣ̃ ħ k g kh x ɣ h l w j r/ ⟨m p b f v n t d ᴛ θ δ z s ts' š ȝ ħ k g ᴋ χ γ h l w y r⟩

/l/ allophonically velarized before C.

Mutations

Words can undergo initial mutation but the mutations are different from the begadkefat spirantization in Tiberian Hebrew.

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 ə a: e: i: o: u:/

/ə/ was a result of vowel reduction.

Prosody

Stress

Stress was penultimate for most words.

Grammar

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

Syntax was retained as VSO under the influence of Celtic.

Nouns

Inflection

The definite article was ʔa- (from Biblical Hebrew ha-). It caused gemination of the following consonant; if the following consonant was a guttural and thus could not geminate, it was lengthened to ʔā-.

The Biblical feminine singular ending -ā became unstressed -a, and the stress in feminine singular nouns shifted to penultimate.

The construct state was not as "hard" as Tiberian Hebrew.

Verbs

All 7 binyanim of Biblical Hebrew were in use.

Verbs inherited the following forms from Biblical Hebrew:

• Past/Perfect/Stative (from the BH perfect)
• Non-past/Imperfect (from the BH imperfect)
• Imperative
• Infinitive construct
• Infinitive absolute
• Participle

The Biblical Hebrew waw-consecutive and jussive forms were lost.