Hredeka

Hredeka Ῥὲδῆκα
Pronounced:	[r̥è.dɛ̂.kā]
Species:	Human
Spoken:	South - Crete, Greece North - Lesvos, Greece
Total speakers:	South - roughly 100,000 North - roughly 50,000
Writing system:	Greek
Genealogy:	Hroïdaïkan Hredekan
Typology
Morphological type:	Fusional with some agglutinative declension
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative
Basic word order:	Free with an SOV base order
Credits
Creator:	Lumi
Created:	July 20th, 2025

Hredeka (Autonym: Ῥὲδῆκα [r̥è.dɛ̂.kā]) is the ancient language of the Hreda (Autonym: Ῥὲδα [r̥è.dā]), it is the descendant of the poorly attested Hroïdaïkan language, it is believed to be a Pre-Indo-European language, thus predating Greek in the area, though it was eventually superseded by Greek as the main language of the region, leading to many inheritances.

Etymology

The language's name comes from Hroïdaïkan "ΡΗΟΗΙΔΑΗΙϜΚΑΑ", composed of "ΡΗΟΗΙΔΑΑ" and "-ΗΙϜΚΑΑ", equivalent to modern "Ῥὲδα" and "-ἵκα".

The origin of "Ῥὲδα" is debated, some suggest Hroïdaïkan "ΡΕΑΑ" + "ΟΗΙΔΔΗΙΕ", but this would likely give "ΡΕΑΟΗΙΔΔΗΙΕ", "ΡΕΟΗΙΔΔΗΙΕ", or "ΡΟΗΙΔΔΗΙΕ", not the expected "ΡΗΟΗΙΔΑΑ". The "ΗΙΕ" to "ΑΑ" may be explained by a gender change of masculine to feminine. The missing initial "Η" makes the etymology somewhat doubtful, but not necessarily implausible, as it could arise from an unexplained phenomenon where names for ethnicities spontaneously gain an initial "Η".

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial		Alveolar		Palatal		Velar
		Voiceless	Voiced	Voiceless	Voiced	Voiceless	Voiced	Voiceless	Voiced
Nasal		m̥	m	n̥	n			(ŋ̊)	(ŋ)
Plosive	aspirated	pʰ	bʰ	tʰ	dʰ			kʰ	gʰ
	tenuis	p	b	t	d			k	g
Fricative				s	(z)			x	(ɣ)
Affricate				ts	dz
Trill				r̥	r
Approximant				l̥	l	j̊	j	ʍ	w

Vowels

	Front	Back
High	i	u
Mid-high	e	o
Mid-low	ɛ	ɔ
Low	a