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Linguistically, Pokht is a descendant of [[Old Izhkut]], making it a sister language of [[Izhkut]] and the now-extinct [[Ilyod]] language. However, unlike other Old Izhkut descendants and its ancestor itself, Pokht is much more [[w:Inflectional language|inflectional]] than the more [[w:Isolating language|isolating]] [[Izhkut]], and incorporates a rich verbal paradigm that conjugates on [[w:Grammatical person|person]], [[w:Grammatical tense|tense]] and [[w:Grammatical aspect|aspect]]. Pokht also retains the masculine-feminine [[w:Grammatical gender|gender]] of [[Old Izhkut]], which Izhkut dropped. | Linguistically, Pokht is a descendant of [[Old Izhkut]], making it a sister language of [[Izhkut]] and the now-extinct [[Ilyod]] language. However, unlike other Old Izhkut descendants and its ancestor itself, Pokht is much more [[w:Inflectional language|inflectional]] than the more [[w:Isolating language|isolating]] [[Izhkut]], and incorporates a rich verbal paradigm that conjugates on [[w:Grammatical person|person]], [[w:Grammatical tense|tense]] and [[w:Grammatical aspect|aspect]]. Pokht also retains the masculine-feminine [[w:Grammatical gender|gender]] of [[Old Izhkut]], which Izhkut dropped. | ||
==Dialectology== | |||
Pokht varieties historically constitute a [[w:Dialect continuum|dialect continuum]], which once encompassed the entire Pokhtreg; the notion of a singular Pokht language was primarily introduced by [[Izhkut]] colonial segregatory practices which distinguished the Pokht peoples(hitherto not recognised as a single people) as different from the supposedly superior Izhkut. As such, the contemporary classification of Pokht is incredibly controversial among the Pokht peoples, as its classification as one language evokes the lingering effects of Izhkut colonialism but also contradictingly evokes the antithetical Pokht independence movement, which has advocated for unity among Pokht peoples against a common Izhkut aggressor. | |||
===Historical extent=== | |||
Pokht was historically divided into three dialectal phyla, named the '''Western''' (''damzin''), '''Eastern'''(''ranyeğ'') and '''Southern''' (''meğshella'') phyla. The Eastern dialects were historically the most spoken and documented; Eastern dialects such as [[Mokhtjen]] (MOHŢEM; modern Pokht: ''muğtjoela'') developed their own literary tradition centuries before modern [[Izhkut]] itself, and even in tandem with the existing [[Old Izhkut]] literary tradition of the time. Notably, Pokht was not considered a single language at this time, and neither were the various Pokht peoples. Instead, the various closely related peoples living in Pokhtreg identified themselves via their city-state of origin. | |||
===Izhkut colonialism=== | |||
After the turn of the BH, the era of city-states in Petrum and Pokhtreg very quickly disappeared as larger nation-states began to rise; most notably, the [[Ilyod]] and [[Izhkut]] in Petrum. However, due to the more mountainous terrain of Pokhtreg, coordination on the scale of nation-states akin to Ilyod and Izhkutrëa, who resided on flatter terrain, was effectively impossible. Thus, though many city-states expanded physically and various wars were wrought, none achieved the size and power of the early Petruic nation-states. | |||
In 100 BH, Ilyod and Izhkutrëa went to the war for the final time as a considerably weakened Ilyod finally surrendered to an equally devastated Izhkutrëa, who, after 20 years of continuous war, was none too kind to the finally occupied Ilyod. By 150 BH, the indigenous Ilyod people and [[Ilyod|language]] were all but annihilated; the immense violence required to complete this genocide in such a short time frame greatly alarmed the Pokht nation-states, who had been at peace for several years while the Ilyod and Izhkut fought. This alarm was warranted, as by 200 BH, the Izhkut were already planning a land invasion of the Pokht city-states, and by 205 BH Pokhtreg had been plunged into war for the first time in 17 years. | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
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Pokht preserved all Old Izhkut vowels apart from /ɛ/, which merged with /e/. Additionally the originally close-mid /[[w:Close-mid back rounded vowel|o]]/ of Old Izhkut was lowered to an open-mid /[[w:Open-mid back rounded vowel|ɔ]]/. | |||
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