Pategian

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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

slender t/tʰ/t’ -> ts/tsʰ/ts’

slender k/kʰ/k’ -> c/cʰ/c’

lenited s -> sʰ

urú'ed consonants merge with séimhiú'ed consonants

l -> r

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

Prefixed forms:

mo·miar, i·miar, kʰe·miar, ki·miar, se·miar, ho·miar