User:IlL/A Danified analytic Neo-Arabic/Ancient
Druidic Hebrew is the stage of Xnánið after the split from Pre-Exilic Biblical Hebrew ca. 7th-6th century BC and before 9th century CE.
It was the liturgical language of Levantine druidism before the religion was supplanted by Henosis Ousias.
Phonology
Orthography
Druidic Hebrew was written in an abjad descended from the Proto-Hebrew script. Religious texts were vocalized but not completely, hence it is reconstructed on the basis of Modern Canaanite and Tiberian Hebrew.
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.
Intonation
Morphophonology
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 ʔaC- (from Biblical Hebrew *haC-). 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 *-ā́ became unstressed -a, and the stress in feminine singular nouns in -a shifted to penultimate (by analogy with masculine singular adjectives and 3fs perfect verbs).
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)
- Energic nun for emphasis or wishes
- Imperative
- Infinitive construct
- Infinitive absolute
- Participle
The Biblical Hebrew waw-consecutive and jussive forms were lost.