Patchélogue

This page is basically a English-translated version of 帕提语.



Classification and Dialects
Patigulh(/'pʌtɪkʊl/, Vżɑiκṡu/'pʰatʰikuɫʷ/, lit."Language of vanila")

Metaly speaking, Patigulh is an artlang created by Kaihan Zhang, a Chinese student.

Canonly speaking, Patigulh is spoken by about 120 million people in Patikio and is the official language of it. Numerous colloquial varieties also exist.

Patikio(/'pʰatʰikʰjou/, lit."Land of vanila") is a great empire in an alternate universe which is isolated from ours.

Vovel

 * 1) When [ɨ] appears after [s/ts/tsʰ], it becomes [ɿ]，when after [ʂ/tʂ/tʂʰ], it becomes[ʅ]，otherwise [ɨ/ɿ/ʅ] is all acceptable.

Consonants

 * 1) [ʂ/tʂʰ/tʂ/kʰ/k] are palatalised [ɕ/tɕʰ/tɕ/cʰ/c] before [i].
 * 2) [pʰ/tʰ/kʰ] are disaspiratised [p/t/k] after[s/ʂ].
 * 3) [p/t/k] are unreleased [p̚/t̚/k̚] at the end of a syllable. Unless they were generated by rule 2.

Writing System
Patigulh is written in a letter system called Higilsamo(/'xikilsamo/, lit."Letters of Saints"), which look like Latin letters.

The reason is that a passing-by time-traveller accidently dropped his comic books into the Patigulh universe when getting lost in time-axis.

Metaly speaking, the Latin transliteration is never used by Patikio people because the transliteration is designed for meta people like you and me, in order to make Patigul more readable.

Nouns
In Patigulh, nouns pluralize based on number, but neither cases nor gender.

In Patigulh, pronoun pluralize based on number and cases, but not gender.

Verbs
In Patigulh, verbs conjugate based on tense and number, but not person.

The tense system of Patigulh consists of twelve(that is, 3×4) tenses, three simple tenses and four aspects.

The simple tenses are: past tense, present tense and future tense.

The aspects are: completed aspect, simple aspect progressive aspect and so-called "starting aspect".

Syntax
Patigulh follows an SVO grammatical system.