Ancient Figo

Ancient Figo is one of the languages belonging to Piti language family. It stems directly from Proto-Piti language. It is spoken in the classic period and gives rise to a separate branch, named Figo languages. One daughter language belongs to this group and stems from ancient Figo. It has two alphabetical scripts.

Typological structure

Ancient Figo is a morphologically agglutinative language, with an additional but strongly marked introflexive feature, realized in verbal roots.

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

fūgali mūg līločeš
(the) person sees (the) cow

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

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

Phonology

Main article: Ancient Figo phonology

Morphology

Main article: Ancient Figo morphology

Syntax

Main article: Ancient Figo syntax

Vocabulary

Main article: Ancient Figo vocabulary