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===== Bataic ===== | |||
:''Main article: [[Bataic]]'' | |||
Of the three non-Caryatic Samasian languages, the only one described in any detail was Bataic, Caryatic's nearest relative. Bataic is the native language of the ''Alfagīnakā''<ref>My notes on Bataic are, unfortunately, incomplete. In particular, they predate whatever I decided the outcomes of the syllabic resonants would be. As a result, the file lists the Bataic name for ''Alfagīnakā'' as "''ælfag?næka''." Thing is, I would have expected that /g/ to lenite to zero, ''*Ælfa?næka''. I'm not sure if I'm right now or was right then.</ref> region, which has been under Caryatic rule for "nearly 200 years." The capital of Alfagīnakā, from which Bataic gets its name, is ''Bātavaiks'' (Bataic ''Ɛbatawækar''), in turn named after its patron goddess ''Bātā'' (''Ɛbata''). | Of the three non-Caryatic Samasian languages, the only one described in any detail was Bataic, Caryatic's nearest relative. Bataic is the native language of the ''Alfagīnakā''<ref>My notes on Bataic are, unfortunately, incomplete. In particular, they predate whatever I decided the outcomes of the syllabic resonants would be. As a result, the file lists the Bataic name for ''Alfagīnakā'' as "''ælfag?næka''." Thing is, I would have expected that /g/ to lenite to zero, ''*Ælfa?næka''. I'm not sure if I'm right now or was right then.</ref> region, which has been under Caryatic rule for "nearly 200 years." The capital of Alfagīnakā, from which Bataic gets its name, is ''Bātavaiks'' (Bataic ''Ɛbatawækar''), in turn named after its patron goddess ''Bātā'' (''Ɛbata''). | ||
Most Bataic speakers also speak Caryatic, though not all of them speak it well. Bataean Caryatic is mockingly refered to as ''Bātavāps'', a play both on ''Bātavaiks'', and on the fact that Bataeans tend to use ''vāps'' "voice," to mean "language," on analogy to its Bataic cognate ''waps''. | |||
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