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Pandorar (or Pxantoran) is a auxlang made by the European Space agency to function as a middle ground between Na'vi and the Romance languages. The Académie Langues Extraterrestres was commissioned by the EU and NASA in 2203 and the language was completed in 2209. Testing showed the same level of difficulty for Na'vi and human learners, and massive improvement in learning the others' language(s) after acquiring Pxantoran.

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Pandorar is largely agglutinative, with many fusional elements. It is reasonably balanced, but with a slight tendency towards right-branching. It has three numbers, three persons, no genders, six cases, and is usually considered to have tripartite alignment. Honorifics are a smaller part of the language. There is no grammatical evidentiality, nor mirativity. There are two orthographies commonly in use. The sound system is unusual (in human terms) in that makes frequent use of ejectives and glottal consonants, and has many uncommon consonantal clusters.

Phonology

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasals	/m/	/n/		/ŋ/
Ejective Stops	/pʼ/	/tʼ/		/kʼ/
Voiceless Stops	/p/	/t/		/k/	/ʔ/
Affricate		/ts/
Voiceless Fricatives	/f/	/s/			/h/
Voiced Fricatives	/v/	/z/
Rhotic		/r/
Lateral		/l/
Glides	/w/		/j/

The voiceless stops are unaspirated at the beginning and middle of a word. They are also unreleased at the end of a word, as well as at the end of a syllable when followed by another consonant.

	Front	Mid	Back
High	/i/		/u/
Near-high	/I/
Mid	/e/		/o/
Low	/æ/	/a/

aj, aj, ew, and ej are diphthongs. r and l are also syllabic consonants.

Syllable structure is highly unusual.

• A syllable is permitted to have no onset consonant (i.e., it may start with a vowel).
• A syllable is permitted to have no coda consonant (i.e., it may end with a vowel).
• Any consonant may start a syllable.
• A consonant cluster of {f, s, or ts} + {p, t, k, pʼ, tʼ, kʼ, m, n, ŋ, r, l, w, or j} may start a syllable.

• p, t, k, pʼ, tʼ, kʼ, ʔ, m, n, l, r, or ŋ may occur in syllable-final position. • ts, f, s, h, v, z, w, and j may not occur in syllable-final position. • There are no consonant clusters in syllable-final position. • A syllable with a syllabic consonant must start with a consonant or consonant cluster and must not have a final consonant.

Orthography

Two orthographies are maintained in different contexts. Signage on Pandora is in the Na'vi-writing style (distinguished by its use of x for ejective-consonants) while human beings continue to text and chat in European-style (distinguished the use of ñ for the velar nasal). This is current area of debate, and we will present both styles here in an effort to remain unbiased.

"Na'vi Style" Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasals	m	n		ng
Ejective Stops	px	tx		kx
Voiceless Stops	p	t		k	'
Affricate		ts
Voiceless Fricatives	f	s			h
Voiced Fricatives	v	z
Rhotic		r
Lateral		l
Glides	w		y

"European Style" Consonants

	Labial	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar	Glottal
Nasals	m	n		ñ
Ejective Stops	p	t		k
Voiceless Stops	b	d		g	q
Affricate		c
Voiceless Fricatives	f	s			h
Voiced Fricatives	v	z
Rhotic		r
Lateral		l
Glides	w		j

"Na'vi Style" Vowels

	Front	Mid	Back
High	i		u
Near-high	ì
Mid	e		o
Low	æ	a

"European Style" Vowels

	Front	Mid	Back
High	i		u
Near-high	y
Mid	e		o
Low	æ	a

Derivational Pathways

A group of 400 words words imported directly from Na'vi, for concepts and species which do not exist in Latin. Beyond this, all words are from Classical Latin. Approximately 600 Neo-Latin words have been imported to date, with a very few from individual from Spanish. Below are listed the procedures transmuting a word via Latin orthography into Pxantoran. These require you to think through whether a given consonant would have palatalized in Vulgar Latin. Recall that CiV or CeV changed into CjV, or that Ce or Ci changed into Cje or Cji. Latin c's, x's, and q's are not written here. Remember that nasals assimilated to place of articulation of the following consonant. u and w's are not distinguished.

• ī -> i
• ì -> ì
• a -> ä
• ā -> a
• ū -> u
• ō -> o
• ē -> e
• gn -> ng
• Nf -> fN
• gu -> p
• [pbv][rlN] -> f[rlN]
• geminate stop -> -voice ejective
• [kg][rlw] -> ts[rlw]
• ps -> sp
• [td][rl] -> ts[rl]
• strV -> tsyV

• b -> p vs bj -> fp
• p -> px vs pj -> fpx
• [vw] -> [vw] vs [vw]j -> fw
• N -> N vs Nj -> fN
• d -> t vs dj -> z
• t -> tx vs tj -> tstx
• g -> k vs gj -> iy
• k -> kx vs kj -> skx

Verbs

Verbs are classified by their theme vowel, which is A, E, I, or U. It is written in the pattern as V.

Active endings

	Singular	Non-Singular
1	-Vm	-Vmus
2	-Vt	-Vtxit
3	-Vtx	-Vng

Passive endings

	Singular	Non-Singular
1	-Vr	-Vmur	2	-Vrìt	-Vmìni
3	-Vtxur	-Vntxur

	Aorist	Perfective	Imperfect
Future	<äs>	<är>	<äp>
Present	<s>	<r>	<p>
Past	<ìs>	<ìr>	<ìp>

Nouns

Nouns are also characterized by there theme vowel, V. It may be A, E, I, or U.

• Nominative: -(V)
• Ergative: -(V)t
• Absolutive: -(V)m
• Genitive: -Vr , -rVm
• Dative: -(V)p
• Topical: -(V)tswe