Idavo-Etalocian languages
| Pategic | |
|---|---|
| Created by | – |
| Geographic distribution | southern Etalocin, eastern Txapoalli, Talma |
| Linguistic classification | Idavo-Etalocian |
| Proto-language | Proto-Pategic |
The Pategic languages are a branch of the Idavo-Etalocian language family spoken in Dodellia, Eastern Txapoalli, and Talma. The most spoken Pategic languages are Dodellian and Pategian.
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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