Haoli

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Haoli
Haoli
Pronunciation[[Help:IPA|ha.ɔ.li]]
Created byiancgil
Proto-Xawlih
  • Xawlih
    • Haoli
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Introduction

Haoli is the language spoken by the Haonai.

Phonology

Consonants

Bilabial Labiodental Dental Alveolar Post Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive Normal voiceless p /p/ t /t/ k /k/
voiced b /b/ d /d/ g /g/
Ejective voiceless pp /pʼ/ tt /tʼ/ kk /kʼ/
voiced dd /dʼ/ gg /gʼ/
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ nj /ɲ/ ng /ŋ/
Trill Normal r /r/
Aspirated rh /rʰ/
Fricative Normal voiceless f /f/ þ /θ/ s /s/ c /ʃ/ x /x/ h /h/
voiced ð /ð/ gh /ɣ/
Lengthened voiceless ff /fː/ ss /sː/
voiced vv /vː/
Aspirated vh /vʰ/
Approximant j /j/
Lateral Approximant l /l/

Vowels

Front Back
Close short i /i/
long ii/ī /iː/
Open-Mid short e /ɛ/ u /œ/ o /ɔ/
long ee/ē /ɛː/ uu/ū /œː/ oo/ō /ɔː/
Open short a /a/
long aa/ā /aː/

Phonotactics

Orthography

Native Orthography

Morphology

Nouns

Haoli Nouns decline for case, gender, and number.

Gender

Gender in Haoli pertains to how the plural is formed as well as how it is declined. Haoli articles do have gender agreement with the constituent noun. Haoli has three genders: neuter, feminine, and masculine.

Plurals

Haoli plurals are formed by suffixes or ablaut.

Pronouns

Pronouns
Person
Singular Plural
First Person jan bet
Second Person si al
Third Person edi ede eda edic edec edac

Declension

Basic Cases

  • Nominative
  • Accusative
  • Dative
  • Malefactive
  • Adverbial
  • Vocative
  • Contrastive
  • Genitive

Oblique Cases

  • Translative
  • Exessive
  • Essive
  • Instrumental
  • Prolative

Locative Cases

Internal

  • Innesive
  • Hyperessive
  • Illative
  • Hyperlative
  • Elative
  • Hyper-elative
  • Supraperlative
  • Hyperlative
  • Perlative

Traversal

  • Lative
  • Superlative
  • Prosecutive
  • Terminative

Exodal

  • Ablative
  • Antessive
  • Delative
  • Eblative

Relational

  • Superessive
  • Supraessive
  • Comitative
  • Pertingent
  • Apudessive
  • Enclosive
  • Forbative
  • Locative
  • Bative
  • Transversive
  • Circumfrentive
  • Situative
  • Abessive
  • Intrative
  • Subessive

Temporal Cases

  • Temporal
  • Temporal-lative
  • Temporal-hyper-transversive
  • Temporal-terminative
  • Temporal-hyperbative

Articles

Articles
Gender Article Singular Plural
Neuter Definite von vono
Indefinite xon xono
Feminine Definite ven vene
Indefinite xen xene
Masculine Definite vun vunu
Indefinite xun xunu

Verbs

Haoli Verbs conjugate for tense and mood.

Negation

Haoli uses the circumposition ro VERB an.

Example:
The flower is not black.
Ro eiþi an asti veti.

Tense

  • Present
  • Imperfect
  • Future
  • Pluperfect

Mood

  • Indicative
  • Interrogative
  • Subjunctive
  • Conditional
  • Imperative
  • Jussive
  • Opative
  • Quotative

Pre-Affixal Clitic Conjunctions

  • aja – or
  • isjo - so
  • je – and
  • jia – for
  • jue – but
  • laja – nor
  • ajsi – than
  • ngo - that
  • bo - yet

Examples:
He listened and pondered.
Kroai je'ajatoe kasa.

Syntax

Word Order (Taturuc)

Modifier Order

The Basic Forms
Tatur English Translation Word Order
Vun Pituð Tatur The Elegant Form Preceding Modifier
Vun Rasuð Tatur The Common Form Proceeding Modifier

Sentence Order

Tatur English Translation Word Order
Vun Isatuð Tatur The Egocentric/Dominant/Impolite Form S-V-O
Vun Roisatuð Tatur The Non-Egocentric/Submissive/Polite Form O-V-S

Numbers

Haoliadh Maur (Haoli Numbers) [0-20]
Decimal Vigesimal Haoli
0 0 mitat
1 1 edu
2 2 ket
3 3 har
4 4 neg
5 5 ote
6 6 vat
7 7 jet
8 8 njol
9 9 reso
10 A poi
11 B ofu
12 C ver
13 D los
14 E is
15 F ox
16 G cic
17 H tal
18 J af
19 K bona
20 10 uv

Sample Texts

Lexicon

Haoli Lexicon