Harākti

Harākti
Harākti
Pronunciation	[[Help:IPA|xaˈɾaːkti]]
Created by	–
Language family	Indo-European Anatolian (?) Harākti
Early form	Old Harākti (?)

Harākti (harākti [xaˈɾaːkti]) is an Indo-European language. It is part of the Anatolian branch of the Indo-European languages, although it differs extensivly from the rest of the Anatolian languages, which is the reason for some speculation regarding its place within the Indo-European family. The strognest argument placed forward in favour of Harākti being an Anatolian language is the fact that, like Hittite, it is a language that reflected some of the laryngeal sounds as consonants. Its verbal system likewise resembles that of Hittite, and the general symplicity of the declensional and conjugational systems is again a characteristic shared with the Anatolian languages.

Phonology

The phonology of Harākti is a direct result of phonological changes or sound shifts from Proto-Indo-European. The majority of the changes are regular and can be tracked down to Proto-Indo-European and they have frequent cognates in modern Indo-European languages. In general, the phonology of the language is fairly simple, resembling the Hittite phonology system in terms of consonants and the Latin phonology system in terms of vowels.

Consonants

Harākti has a simple system of consonants - a total of 16 (or 18) consonants.

Harākti consonants

	Bilabial	Labio-dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
					plain	labialised
Nasal	m		n
Plosive		p b	t d		k g	kʷ gʷ
Fricative			s		x ɣ
Approximant		ʋ		(j)		(w)
Flap or tap			ɾ
Lateral app.			l

Note:

• the consonants /j/ and /w/ are usually analyzed as non-vocalic vowels /i̯/ and /u̯/.

Vowels

Harākti has a simple system of the basic 5 (cardinal) vowels. However, they can be either short or long, which brings the total number of vowels to 10.

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i	iː			u	uː
Close-mid	e	eː			o	oː
Open			a	aː

Note:

• the near-mid short vowels [e o] may be lowered to mid [e̞ o̞] or open-mid vowels [ɛ ɔ] when in unstressed possitions.

Orthography

The letter-to-sound ratio is virtually 1:1, with the exception of a digraph - see below:

Letter	A	B	D	E	G	GH	H	I	K	L	M	N	O	P	R	S	T	U	V
Sound	a	b	d	e	g	ɣ	x	i	k	l	m	n	o	p	ɾ	s	t	u	ʋ
Letter	Ā			Ē	GU			Ī	KU				Ō					Ū
Sound	aː			eː	gʷ			iː	kʷ				oː					uː
Letter								I										U
Sound								i̯										u̯