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

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"