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 h.

Nouns
Nouns in general have no regular form of ending, any word could be a noun. Noun is a somwhat wider part of speech than languages as english as all proper nouns, pronouns are considered nouns and locations are formed by a group of nouns combined with genitive and locative cases replace many of the (pre)positions.

Nouns get different clitics depending on if they end on a consonant or a vowel. For some cases however this does not matter and the clitic is the same.

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

accusative
The accusative case is used for the direct object of a sentence.

dative
The dative case is used for the indirect object of a sentence, and also for certain locations or destinations of something.

genitive
The genitive case is used to show owner ship of something.

locative
The locative case is used for location of something.

ablative
The ablative case is used for origin of something.

instrumental
The instrumental case is used for with something or someone something is done.

Verbs
Most regular verbs have a stem ending on -a (~ㅏ), this a can be mutated to change the form of the verb. Verbs conjugate to multiple things, voice, mood tense and aspect. These often are formed by a process of agglutenation of suffixes. The most important suffixes are for the mood, tense and aspect.

sample words
J - Japanese or sino-japanese loanword.