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Revision as of 07:55, 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
How to get f and θ?
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
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"