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*Short vowels: i e | *Short vowels: i e o u ə /i æ ɑ u ə/ | ||
*Long vowels: ii ee oo uu /i: e: o: u:/ | *Long vowels: ii ee oo uu /i: e: o: u:/ | ||
*Diphthongs: ei eu oi ou /ei eu oi ou/ | *Diphthongs: ei eu oi ou /ei eu oi ou/ |
Revision as of 01:12, 9 November 2019
Pategic | |
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Created by | – |
Geographic distribution | southern Etalocin, eastern Txapoalli, Talma |
Linguistic classification | One of Tricin's primary language families |
Proto-language | Proto-Pategic |
The Pategic languages are a language family spoken in Dodellia, Eastern Txapoalli, and Talma. The most spoken Dodello-Shalic languages are Dodellian and Shalian.
Some relate Pategic to Lakovic.
Phylogeny
Phonology
Consonants
29 consonants (same number as PSem)
- Stops: p b p' t d t' ḱ ǵ ḱ' k g k' kʷ gʷ kʷ'
- Resonants: m n l r y w ʕ
- Fricatives: þ s ś h₁ h₂ h₃ /ç χ xʷ/
Vowels
- Short vowels: i e o u ə /i æ ɑ u ə/
- Long vowels: ii ee oo uu /i: e: o: u:/
- Diphthongs: ei eu oi ou /ei eu oi ou/
Tone
Proto-Dodellic had a pitch accent system, where at most one syllable in a word could have one of the following tones:
- high level: á
- falling tone: à
- creaky tone: ả
Morphology
Nouns
Proto-Dodellic was tripartite and had 8 cases: absolutive, accusative, ergative, genitive, lative, ablative, locative, and vocative.
- absolutive: -0
- accusative: -ot
- ergative: -oo
- genitive: -ar
- locative: -elh3
- lative: -ỉh1
- ablative: -eś
- vocative: -áh1
Nouns also had possessive suffixes.
Verbs
- Tenses: present, past, future
- Nouns also had passive, causative and antipassive voices.
Etyma
- ấns 'precious'
- Shalian 'aans 'dear'; 'áanwhaiam 'to cherish'
- -kʷei 'verbalizer'
- manay 'water, river'
- Shalian Manayunk 'god of rivers'
- onkʷ' = "big"
- Shalian -unk honorific
- ʕat'- = 'to see'
- -íir = causative
- yát = same
- sẩk = breast
- yát-sẩk "same breast" > yasái'kh 'brother'
- rii = '1sg'
- sii = '2sg'
Diachronics
i e a â o u ə /i e æ ɑ o u/ > Old Shal. i i a ā u u 0 ii ee oo uu /i: e: o: u:/ > ī ī ū ū ei eu oi ou /ei eu oi ou ai au/ > ai ow ai ow
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