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Revision as of 07:57, 18 July 2018
Pategian is a Talmic language spoken by the Pategian people in Tricin. It's inspired by Carrier (Dakelh), Welsh, Irish and Korean and is closely related to the Tigolic languages.
Phonology
Consonants
Welshy with ejectives
noninitial t, k -> t’, k’
initial and lenited t, k -> tʰ, kʰ
noninitial b, d, g -> ʔ, t’, k’
initial and lenited b, d, g -> p, t, k
initial st, sc -> t’, k’
slender t/tʰ/t’ -> ts/tsʰ/ts’
slender k/kʰ/k’ -> c/cʰ/c’
lenited s -> sʰ~z
urú'ed consonants merge with séimhiú'ed consonants
l -> r
initial sn -> n, while initial n -> m
nn -> θ, mh -> f
Vowels
a e i o u ə ɨ
Hmoob diphthongs?
Phonotactics
Morphology
Nouns
Pategian, like Skellan, doesn't have grammatical gender or mutations. Plurals may be irregular as in Welsh.
Example noun: miar (tree), plural mair
Possessed forms: ma·miar, i·miar, kʰe·miar, ci·miar, se·miar, ha·miar
Verbs
Verbs in Pategian are preceded by subject and object clitics if they're pronominal.
mi·tʰɨs "I pray"
mi·kʰ·tseirip "I tolerate him/her"
Syntax
Pategian is VSO.
tseirip ə kʰar re ??? "The person tolerates the weather"