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INTRODUCTION
Hiwashazulitu (literally: The Language of our People), or just Hiwashazu (not to confuse with the planet nor the people), is a polysynthetic language developed by the people exiled on Hiwashazu planet. According to their legend, the Hiwashazu people arrose as the "batiruzu" ("bad gods", lit.: "Captors") took then while still as children from their heavenly parents and brought them to the land, leaving them to survive alone. This event caused a mass death of many children, but some managed to survive to a mature age and started a primitive society. Later on, after a few hundred years, their society developed to the point of managing to create pieces of technology, and at this point they understood that all the "heaven charriots" and other objects left behind by the "gods" were purely technological artifacts.
Their language was mostly developed by themselves and little to no traces of their original language on Earth before their capture remains, which makes this language to have unique characteristics that are unparalleled to all the other languages spoken in its parent star system, being the single language that can be written left-to-right, right-to-left or as a boustrophedon. Since media technology and educational systems developed pretty fast and organized, there are little variations concerning dialects, to the point of barely being recognized as a different dialect at all.
Their language was mostly developed by themselves and little to no traces of their original language on Earth before their capture remains, which makes this language to have unique characteristics that are unparalleled to all the other languages spoken in its parent star system, being the single language that can be written left-to-right, right-to-left or as a boustrophedon. Since media technology and educational systems developed pretty fast and organized, there are little variations concerning dialects, to the point of barely being recognized as a different dialect at all.
WRITING SYSTEM (see below for more)
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Consonants: -developing-.
Vowels: -developing-.
GRAMMAR
Nouns: They can be inflected in gender (male, female, innanimate and animate) and number (singular and plural). Male and female gender are used to refer to people and animals. They are used solely in situations that there is a defined difference in gender, such as man and woman, lion and lioness, etc. For male, suffix "ru" is used, as for female "ri" is used instead. Innanimate is used to refer to objects that aren't alive, and animate is used to refer to living beings without any defining gender.
Adjectives: -developing-.
Personal pronouns: They can't ever be used alone and must always be affixed to a verb, even though in the coloquial use there are situations when people do say them alone, but it is quite rare.
• These are the suffixes for nominative case:
'ʃa.zi: 1st person singular
'ʃu.zi: 2nd person singular
'ʃi.zi: 3rd person singular
'ʃa.zu: 1st person plural
'ʃu.zu: 2nd person plural
'ʃi.zu: 3rd person plural
• These are the suffixes for oblique case:
wa.'zi: 1st person singular
wu.'zi: 2nd person singular
wi.'zi: 3rd person singular
wa.'zu: 1st person plural
wu.'zu: 2nd person plural
wi.'zu: 3rd person plural
Verbs: The verbs in Hiwashazu are always inflected by adding a prefix for verbal tense and a suffix for nominative case (signaling the subject). Most of the time also another suffix for oblique case is added (signaling the object); this becomes obligatory when the direct object of the phrase is present. Also, when one uses the indirect object, the oblique also must be present, thus being prepositional object the only one that doesn't require the oblique suffix at the end of the related verb. Infinitive is marked with the adition of "wa.ta" (present tense prefix preceded by "wa") before a verbal root.
Thus, a normal inflected verb is build as "tense+root+nominative" or as "tense+root+nominative+oblique". For example, the root word "hiwa" (people) also can be used as a verb for "to populate", and the phrase "we populated the land" is said as "ba.ha.'wa.ʒi tu.hi.wa.'ʃa.zu.wi.'zi"; the inflected verb "tu.hi.wa.'ʃa.zu.wi.'zi" can be divided into:
These are the prefixes for verbal tense:
MORE ON HIWASHAZULITU
Here is a list of pages on Hiwashazulitu writting system, grammar, media, and more.
Page 1 - Hiwashazulitu Alphabet: A more detailed page on Hiwashazulitu script.
Page 2 - Hiwashazulitu News: All the news concerning Hiwashazulitu, download files, and more.
Page 3 - All Posts: All posts written about Hiwashazulitu. All of them in this tag.
Page 4 - Texts and short tales in Hiwashazulitu: A list of posts with texts and short tales written in Hiwashazulitu.
-developing-.
Consonants: -developing-.
Vowels: -developing-.
GRAMMAR
Nouns: They can be inflected in gender (male, female, innanimate and animate) and number (singular and plural). Male and female gender are used to refer to people and animals. They are used solely in situations that there is a defined difference in gender, such as man and woman, lion and lioness, etc. For male, suffix "ru" is used, as for female "ri" is used instead. Innanimate is used to refer to objects that aren't alive, and animate is used to refer to living beings without any defining gender.
Adjectives: -developing-.
Personal pronouns: They can't ever be used alone and must always be affixed to a verb, even though in the coloquial use there are situations when people do say them alone, but it is quite rare.
• These are the suffixes for nominative case:
'ʃa.zi: 1st person singular
'ʃu.zi: 2nd person singular
'ʃi.zi: 3rd person singular
'ʃa.zu: 1st person plural
'ʃu.zu: 2nd person plural
'ʃi.zu: 3rd person plural
• These are the suffixes for oblique case:
wa.'zi: 1st person singular
wu.'zi: 2nd person singular
wi.'zi: 3rd person singular
wa.'zu: 1st person plural
wu.'zu: 2nd person plural
wi.'zu: 3rd person plural
Verbs: The verbs in Hiwashazu are always inflected by adding a prefix for verbal tense and a suffix for nominative case (signaling the subject). Most of the time also another suffix for oblique case is added (signaling the object); this becomes obligatory when the direct object of the phrase is present. Also, when one uses the indirect object, the oblique also must be present, thus being prepositional object the only one that doesn't require the oblique suffix at the end of the related verb. Infinitive is marked with the adition of "wa.ta" (present tense prefix preceded by "wa") before a verbal root.
Thus, a normal inflected verb is build as "tense+root+nominative" or as "tense+root+nominative+oblique". For example, the root word "hiwa" (people) also can be used as a verb for "to populate", and the phrase "we populated the land" is said as "ba.ha.'wa.ʒi tu.hi.wa.'ʃa.zu.wi.'zi"; the inflected verb "tu.hi.wa.'ʃa.zu.wi.'zi" can be divided into:
tu: past tense; hi.wa: people, to populate (root); 'ʃa.zu: we (nominative); wi.'zi: it (oblique).
Note that the oblique is maintained because it is necessary to connect with the direct object "bahawa'ʒi" (the land/planet) that preceded it.These are the prefixes for verbal tense:
tu: past; ta: present; ti: future; wa.ta: infinitive.
Sentences: Phrases are build as OVS most of the time, but changes to VSO when in an interrogative. The language lacks any question mark as its phrasal construction makes it clear that it refers to a question, but also it has interrogative prepositions.MORE ON HIWASHAZULITU
Here is a list of pages on Hiwashazulitu writting system, grammar, media, and more.
Page 1 - Hiwashazulitu Alphabet: A more detailed page on Hiwashazulitu script.
Page 2 - Hiwashazulitu News: All the news concerning Hiwashazulitu, download files, and more.
Page 3 - All Posts: All posts written about Hiwashazulitu. All of them in this tag.
Page 4 - Texts and short tales in Hiwashazulitu: A list of posts with texts and short tales written in Hiwashazulitu.
