Old Koxori language

Old Koxori (kokhōle-ēke īnśai ; modern Koxori: Kokhorü dumö inše) is the earliest recorded form of the Koxori language, spoken from around 200 to 1300 CE, first in the Ankhulen valley and later throughout Koxor.

Vowels
Old Koxori had three sets of vowels: lax, tense and long. The lax-types of the front and back close vowels /*ɪ *ʊ/ are not directly attested in spelling, but instead from differing reflexes in modern Koxori.

Orthography
Like most pre-Avanoran languages of Alapet, Old Koxori was written with a script derived from the ancient Khorensin logography. Old Koxori speakers adopted the syllabic script that was used in the Ankhulen valley region at the time when they settled there in the late 4th century CE. During the reforms of Hamezu the Great in the early 1500s, the Augustine script was adopted for Koxori as part of the king's efforts to modernise and bring his country closer to Avanor. By this time, Old Koxori had all but died out as a spoken language and been replaced by Middle Koxori, but its writing system was still used alongside the Augustine alphabet for centuries. This had ended by the late 18th century, however, by which point the Old Koxori syllabary had fallen out of use other than a liturgical language of the Koxoriek Khorensin church.

There are two main romanisation systems for Old Koxori: the Luruna system, made in the 18th century to standardise spellings when studying the language, and the more modern Kemena-Süru system, invented in 1872. The latter is more widely used today.