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-'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (natively ''Tr'əəsi'uł'' /ʈʼəⁿsiʔʊɬ/) is a Tigolic language spoken by the {{PAGENAME}} people in [[Verse:Tricin|Tricin]]. It's inspired by Carrier.
+'''{{PAGENAME}}''' (''nủtufỉxi'', from ''nủtu'' 'Pategian' + ''fỉxi'' 'language') is a [[Pategic languages|Pategic]] language spoken by the [[Verse:Tricin/Pategia|Pategian]] people in [[Verse:Tricin|Tricin]].
+It is inspired by Welsh, Hungarian, and classical IE languages (Latin, Greek and Avestan). Pategian is also analogous to Hungarian from a diachronic perspective: roots that are disyllabic in other Pategic languages are often monosyllabic in Pategian.
+==Dialects==
+Pategian has 4 main dialects:
+*Tảmhẻxra
+*Fathrẩc
+*Kẻlet
+*Ảnfihẻzi
 ==Phonology==
 ===Consonants===
+p t ts tc k b d dz dq g ph th s c kh h f x z q m n l r lh rh j
-Welshy with ejectives
+/p t ts tʃ k b d dz dʒ g f θ s ʃ x h v ð z ʒ m n l r ɬ rʰ j/
+===Vowels===
+a â e i o u y ả ẩ ẻ ỉ ỏ ủ ỷ
+/a ɑ e i o u ɨ a: ɑ: e: i: o: u: ɨ:/
-===Vowels===
+===Pitch accent===
-Welsh vowels?
+Old Pategian had a pitch accent in long vowels which could be rising (written ả) or falling (written ạ). The distinction is neutralized in Modern Pategian.
 ===Phonotactics===
+No initial clusters, geminates allowed
+Stress follows the Dreimorengesetz.
 ==Morphology==
-===Nouns===
+==Poetry==
+Most ancient Pategian poetry was written in flexible quantitative meters reminiscent of Vedic Sanskrit, but a few authors have experimented with the stricter quantitative meters.
 [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]][[Category:Conlangs]]
+[[Category:Pseudo-Uralic]][[Category:Languages]]
+[[Category:Pategic languages]]