팟이야

Classification and Dialects
pathiya is an isolate a-priori language. The language is spoken on an island group in the chinese sea. It has three dialects, northern, southern and urban, these dialects however differ barely.

Consonants
note that /ɲ/ and /ʎ/ can only occur in the coda of a syllable

Vowels
Vowels can either have a low or high tone in a syllable, except for syllables ending in /n/, /ɲ/, /gz/, /bz/ or /ndz/, which are always in low tone.

Hangeul
¹Consonants written in parentheses indicate syllable final variants for low tone syllables.

To write vowels indipendently ㅇ is used, this sign is also used for writing low tone syllables without a coda consonant.

Kana
The kana orthography was shortly in the period of japanese occupation. Together with the kana the japanese tried to enforce kanji to minimal succes, as the language has little loanwords from chinese, especially compared to korean and japanese. Some of the simple kanji however remain in common use, even in the modern day hangeul orthography.

Romanisation
ㅇ is initlially romanised as nothing, except if the previous syllable ended on a consonant in which case it is romanised as a '. At the end of a syllable it is romanized as v.

nominative
The nominative case is used for the subject of a sentence

sample words
J - Japanese or sino-japanese loanword.