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| Inspiration: Dravidian languages, Marathi
| | '''{{PAGENAME}}''' (''nủtufỉxi'', from ''nủtu'' 'Pategian' + ''fỉxi'' 'language') is a [[Pategic languages|Pategic]] language spoken by the [[Verse:Tricin/Pategia|Pategian]] people in [[Verse:Tricin|Tricin]]. |
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| '''Barcan''' (''BAR-kən''; natively ''ṇtūgopaḷkha'' /ɳtuːgoːpaɭkʰa/, [[Skellan]]: ''brits Barca'') is the indigenous language of Barca; it is a language isolate. Today it has few speakers.
| | It is inspired by Welsh, Hungarian, and classical IE languages (Latin, Greek and Avestan). Pategian is also analogous to Hungarian from a diachronic perspective: roots that are disyllabic in other Pategic languages are often monosyllabic in Pategian. |
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| Capital of Barca: Yrðamrona (Barcan: Ḷdamrōṇa)
| | ==Dialects== |
| | Pategian has 4 main dialects: |
| | *Tảmhẻxra |
| | *Fathrẩc |
| | *Kẻlet |
| | *Ảnfihẻzi |
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| ==Phonology== | | ==Phonology== |
| Barcan allows retroflex dental clusters word-initially (like ḷd-) but not retroflex-retroflex clusters.
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| Clusters (also allowed initially): NC-, lC-, ɳC-, ɭC-
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| ===Consonants=== | | ===Consonants=== |
| m n ṇ | | p t ts tc k b d dz dq g ph th s c kh h f x z q m n l r lh rh j |
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| p ph b t th d ṭ ṭh ḍ c ch j k kh g | | /p t ts tʃ k b d dz dʒ g f θ s ʃ x h v ð z ʒ m n l r ɬ rʰ j/ |
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| s ṣ ś z h | |
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| v r l ḷ y | |
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| Retroflexes are subapical.
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| ===Vowels=== | | ===Vowels=== |
| a i u ā ī ū e o | | a â e i o u y ả ẩ ẻ ỉ ỏ ủ ỷ |
| | | /a ɑ e i o u ɨ a: ɑ: e: i: o: u: ɨ:/ |
| ==Morphology==
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| Applicatives and incorporation
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| ==Todo==
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| reuse Netagin words
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| Maytyarri is a minor language of [[Tricin]]. It's spoken in the ___ Mountains.
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| Antyardu-n' ami tyu.ngarnra tyu.rraparn-ku kanyu-nra.
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| I-NOM about love hate-and speak-PRES
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| Warr' antyardu-rriku rimpawrda-nra?
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| for me-INTERR save-PRES?
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| Ngurtima yirr pardungu nu-rta-rimpawrda!
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| happy ACC·PREP birth GEN-AGENT-save! (Merry Christmas!)
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| ==Todo==
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| ''ikuu'' = 'self'
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| ==Phonology== | | ===Pitch accent=== |
| Based on Australian/Tamil.
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| ===Consonants=== | |
| p t ʈ c k
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| m n ɳ ɲ ŋ
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| j ʋ
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| r ɻ ɽ
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| mʙ ⁿr ᶯɽ
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| p t rt ty k
| | Old Pategian had a pitch accent in long vowels which could be rising (written ả) or falling (written ạ). The distinction is neutralized in Modern Pategian. |
| m n rn ny ng
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| y w
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| rr r rd
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| mb nr rnr
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| ===Vowels===
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| aa a ii i uu u
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| ===Phonotactics=== | | ===Phonotactics=== |
| Words may only end in a vowel or one of the following consonants: ''n rn rr r y w''.
| | No initial clusters, geminates allowed |
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| Geminate consonants are prohibited, like in Australian Aboriginal languages and unlike in Tamil.
| | Stress follows the Dreimorengesetz. |
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| ==Grammar== | | ==Morphology== |
| Latin-ish, "magnā cum laude" order
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| ===Nouns===
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| ''-ngku'' = plural
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| Need case clitics
| | ==Poetry== |
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| ===Pronouns (indep.)===
| | Most ancient Pategian poetry was written in flexible quantitative meters reminiscent of Vedic Sanskrit, but a few authors have experimented with the stricter quantitative meters used in [[Sowaár]] poetry. Stress-accentual meters and rhyming unmetric verse, influenced by [[Windermere]] poetry, are also common. |
| *''ndu'' = I
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| *''nāri'' = thou
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| *''vuṭa'' = he/she (indep.)
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| *''pāri'' = we
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| *''ḷtāntu'' = ye
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| *''navuṭa'' = they
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| ==Todo==
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| *''ṇnaṇuna'' = grandmother
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| *''Calvaḷuṭṭu ḷnāṇahē paḍataprōti muḷdāruṭa''
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| *''vaṇa'' = old
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| *''Kaḷēvaḷa'' = Barcan national epic?
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| *''sāḷda'' = hall
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| *''ḷkaḷaṇālā''
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| *''ḷdakūna'' = gap
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| Numbers: ḷkāma, aḷda, khecha, tubaḷa, makaśa, pazīma, albāṇa, ṇthāvata, zaṇata, yāta, zāḷūta
| | [[Category:{{PAGENAME}}]][[Category:Conlangs]] |
| <poem>
| | [[Category:Pseudo-Uralic]][[Category:Languages]] |
| Colors:
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| pittā = red
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| pirai/pira = orange
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| cūḍi = yellow
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| peru = green
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| māḷē = blue
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| aru = indigo / dark blue
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| ḷdāḷā = violet
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| ettān = white
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| mara = brown
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| vādē = black
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| taḍa = gray
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| vōḷdi = pink
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| ṇāzu = maroon
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| ḷkāṭā = silver
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| ḷōpa = chartreuse
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| </poem>
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