Haapilujaa

Haapilujaa (lit. god speak) is the oldest language. It was spoken by the Celestials. It survived thousands of years and is still spoken by some tribes of the elven. Haapiluja is the proto language of the Elven Language Family.

Writing System

The writing system Haapilujaa uses is a mix of an abjad and featural system. Only consonants have a written representation. Vowels, however, are written as diacritics. The method consonants and vowel diacritics are written can be seen as a type of featural system. This means, each respective glyph in its place can show phonetical information, such as place and manner of articulation. Haapilujaa is written top to bottom, right to left. Words are usually seperated. The only punctuation in Haapilujaa is the dot (.) at the end of a sentence.

Words Written Together

It is possible for haapilujaan words to be written as a single word if the type of the words matches. This usually occures to predicates with multiple verbs or adjectives, or to attributes. Case marking and negation particles are also directly attached to their phrase or word.

Romanization

There are two systems used to romanize Haapilujaa. The first is used by almost anyone that romanizes this language and the second is, if used at all, solely used in digital writings. The table below shows the actual writing system it uses and its romanization systems.

Phonology

Consonants	Bilabial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Plosives	p	t		k	ʔ
Nasals	m	n	ɲ	ŋ
Fricatives	ɸ	s ʃ t͡s	ç		h
Tap / lat. Approximants		ɾ l
Approximants	w		j

Vowels	FRONT	MID	BACK
Close	i i:		u u:
Close-Mid	e e:		o o:
Open-Mid	ɛ ɛ:		ɔ ɔ:
Open		a a:

Phonotactics

Haapilujaan syllables follow a simple structure of CV(C). The only consonant that does not occure in the coda is [ʔ].

Morphology

Haapilujaa is considered as an analytical language. The great majority Haapilujaan words do not use inflection at all. Case marking particles follow the noun phrase, any other particle preceds its phrase.

Particles used for case marking

• Nominative Case: -
• Accusative Case: liha*
• Dative Case: pa*
• Genetive Case: na
• Instrumental Case: ma
• Comitative Case: ma
• Ablative Case: ta
• Allative / Terminative Case: fa

*The accusative and dative case particles are usually omitted unless the objects syllable count is very short.

Preceding Particles

• anticausative: kiil
• negation: pu
• passive: ili

Syntax

Haapilujaas's sentence structure is SVO. The predicate of a sentence can be a verb or an adjective. Phrases are right-headed. More complex sentences can contain multiple predicates, where the object of a predicate is the subject of the following predicate.

A noun phrase can contain multiple adjective phrases. They are usually ordered like this: size - color - shape - quality - quantity. A quantity adjective is directly attached to the front of the head. Other types of adjectives just precede the head. If multiple adjectives precede the head of a noun phrase, they are written together. A connecting particle is required if a preceding adjective phrase is used.

Phrase Order

Subject	Predicate	Direct Object	Indirect Object	Instrument / Company	Time / Location
Faa	rifie.
Je	manika	sharaliha.
Ni	jaa		haapi.

Birds come.
I drink water.
You talk to the god(s).

Complex Sentences

Subject	Predicate	Object & Subject	Predicate	...
Je	mihora	ish lafira	rutsala.

I see this world. + This world is beautiful. = I see this world that is beautiful

Noun Phrase Structure

(demonstrative pronoun)	(noun phrase)	(adjective phrases)	noun

Adjective Phrase Structure

(degree)	adjective

Verb Phrase Structure

(adjective phrases)	verb / adjective	(arguments)	(adjuncts)

Phrase Rules

• An adjective phrase within a verb phrase describes the verb (adverb).
• Multiple verb phrases can occur directly following each other when they have the same subject. If this is the case, either the first verb phrase is first in time or it describes the way / method of the following verb phrase.

Vocabulary

To see the full dictionary list, go to the Haapilujaan Dictionary.

Dictionary

158 Words.

Spoken by

• Celestials
• Elven