Patapewan [PTW]
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Language type
Mixed
Species
Human/humanoid
About Patapewan
Patapewan is a distant cousin language to Achiyitqan, built to be even more polysynthetic!!!, and featuring a... unique phonology.
Sample of Patapewan[view] Nutííc tuntsón. / Tum nutííctsón.
The bird saw the fish. / / The fish saw the bird.[view all texts]
The bird saw the fish. / / The fish saw the bird.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeMaakpauean
⤷ Makpauwean
⤷ Middle Makpauean
⤷ Glacial Maakpauean
⤷ Matakpewan
⤷ Patapewan
⤷ Makpauwean
⤷ Middle Makpauean
⤷ Glacial Maakpauean
⤷ Matakpewan
⤷ Patapewan
[view] About MaakpaueanA language family spoken in the northeast of Mahavia, unrelated to the neighbouring East Mirarian languages, typified by polysynthetic, nominative-accusative languages with animacy distinctions.
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||||
Nasal | m | n | [ɳ]1 | [ɲ]2 | ŋ | |||||||||||||||
Plosive | p p: | [b]3 | t t: | [d]4 | [ʈ]5 [ʈ:]6 | k kʷ k: | [g]7 | |||||||||||||
Fricative | v | s s: | [z]8 | ʃ | ʒ | x | h | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | [ɭ]9 | ||||||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | [ɥ]10 | |||||||||||||||||
Flap | ɾ | [ɽ]11 |
- final, allophone of /n/
- fronting environments, allophone of /ŋ/
- intervocalic, allophone of /p/
- intervocalic, allophone of /t/
- final, allophone of /t/
- final, allophone of /t:/
- intervocalic, allophone of /k/
- intervocalic, allophone of /s/
- final, allophone of /l/
- where rounded, allophone of /j/
- final, allophone of /ɾ/
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Back | ||||
Close | i: î: í | [ý]1 | ɨ2 | u u: û: ú | ||||
Near-close | ɪ ɪ̰ | [ʏ]3 | ||||||
Close-mid | ê: é | [ǿ]4 | ô: ó | |||||
Open-mid | ɛ ɛ̰ ɛ: | [œ]5 | ɜ6 | ɔ ɔ̰ ɔ: | ||||
Near-open | æ̂: | |||||||
Open | á | ɑ ɑ̰ | ɒ: |
- where fronted, allophone of /ú/, before labials, allophone of /í/
- pre-velar
- where fronted, allophone of /u/, before labials, allophone of /ɪ̰/
- where fronted, allophone of /ó/, before labials, allophone of /é/
- where fronted, allophone of /ɔ/, before labials, allophone of /ɛ/
- pre-velar
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Patapewan. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
PatapewanOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
Ąą/ɑ̰/ | Áá/á/ | Aa/ɑ/ | Cc/ʃ/ | Ee/ɛ/, /ɜ/1, [œ]2 | Ęę/ɛ̰/ | Éé/é/, [ǿ]3 | Gg/x/ | Hh/h/ | Íí/í/, [ý]4 | Ii/ɪ/, /ɨ/5, [ʏ]6 |
Įį/ɪ̰/ | Kk/k/, [g]7 | Ll/l/, [ɭ]8 | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/, [ɳ]9 | Oo/ɔ/ | Óó/ó/ | Ǫǫ/ɔ̰/ | Pp/p/, [b]10 | Qq/kʷ/ | Rr/ɾ/, [ɽ]11 |
Ss/s/, [z]12 | Tt/t/, [ʈ]13, [d]14 | Úú/ú/ | Uu/u/ | Vv/v/ | Ww/w/ | Xx/ɬ/ | Yy/j/, [ɥ]15 | Zz/ʒ/ | Ŋŋ/ŋ/, [ɲ]16 | |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- pre-velar
- where fronted, allophone of /ɔ/, before labials
- where fronted, allophone of /ó/, before labials
- where fronted, allophone of /ú/, before labials
- pre-velar
- where fronted, allophone of /u/, before labials
- intervocalic
- final
- final
- intervocalic
- final
- intervocalic
- final
- intervocalic
- where rounded
- fronting environments
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