Žérði

Žérði is one of the languages belonging to Sākdi language family. It stems directly from Proto-Saːkdi, the family proto-language. It is spoken in the pre-classic and early classic period and becomes extinct in the classical period, without giving rise to any daughter language. It has an alphabetical script.

Typological structure

Žérði is mostly a morphologically isolating language, with an additional but strongly marked agglutinative feature in derivative morphology.

In an isolating languages semantical or grammatical morphemes are almost coincident with single words, and they do not change or add any flecting affix to specify their role in a sentence or their number:

mórğa
wolf, a wolf, wolves, the wolf, the wolves

However, words usually cannot have more than one grammatical role in a sentence.

The basic word order is essentially SVO (Subject-Verb-Object).

mɔmi búɣnez moč muğa
(the) person sees (the) cow

The entire system is set according to typological parameters of the head-modifier (or head-initial) type:

• verb - object
• preposition - noun
• noun - adjective
• noun - relative clause

Phonology

Main article: Žérði phonology

Morphology

Main article: Žérði morphology

Syntax

Main article: Žérði syntax

Vocabulary

Main article: Žérði vocabulary