Lesson in Hakkan
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Truncation for beginners
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5. Lesson in Hakkan
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For the sake avoiding any confusion, the terms “Hatxan” and “Hakkan” are used interchangeably and most commonly refer to the Hakkanic language or dialects. There have been numerous updates to the most common standard form of the use of Hakkan, and as of now, the formal literary version has been entered into the dictionary and translations. There is a classical form of Hakkan, which is not so different than the standard literary form of the language. Any truncations to any words will simply be called a dialectal variant of the standard language. For instance the word for “autumn” uses the words “leaf” and “fall” respectively, “xowotho” and “thokko,” thus making “xowothothokko.” An example of dialectal truncation would be to shorten the word via haplology, thus shortening “xowothothokko” to “xowothokko” which in Classical Hakkan means “most of (a/the) leaf.” As you can see such constructions are now considered pedantic and unnecessary. Here are a few examples:
“Yathsethoqaso,” “light-writing” meaning “photograph” is truncated to “Yathsoqaso,” “photo(graph)”
“Xonethothosoqo,” “snow-water” to refer to melting snow is truncated to “Xonethosoqo,” “snow-water.”
Now, before you can begin speaking or writing in Hakkan, you should know the formal 14 cases:
Wa, I
Was, me
Wase(s), to me
Watheq, for me
Wathoqeye, from me
Waweyos, out of me*
Wawan, at me
Wawanna, in me
Wawonne, above me*
Waksa, by me
Wakseyos, around me*
Wawokko, all/most of me*
Waye, (some) of me
Wathas, with me
*=uncommon in modern Hakkan, but present in Classical Hakkan or High Hakkan.
If you wish to understand how some of the grammar comes to play, you should understand that Hakkan grammar can be very fluid but for the sake of standardizing Hakkan, most of the entries have been in SVO format, with the inclusion of pronouns and avoiding truncation, which can also be found in some Hakkan poetry for the sake of preserving meter and rhyme.
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