Otzeipaonese

The Otzeipaonese language (Oikan: otseipauto or paunadu) (Azkali: Anotzeipaona patua) (Otzeipaonese: Ro-otzibao a-patoa), also known as the Otzeipao dialect, or Paonadu, is a language variously described as a mixed language or occasionally a creole, or dialect of Oikan or Azkali spoken in Western Azkali, particularly centered around Otzeipao, and Pordmisktpelha, and to a lesser extant widely across Kalilonde, Sunteria. Due to it's nature as a mixed language, Otzeipaonese is not a part of the Mallo-Brausian language family, nor is it a member of the Azkali languages. Otzeipaonese is mutually intelligible with both Oikan and Azkali, though it remains somewhat more intelligible — though not to an extent where it would be completely intelligible — to Azkali.

With an estimated three and a half million speakers, Otzeipaonese remains the second largest mixed language in which Azkali is a parent language of (the first being Turku Azkali). Otzeipaonese has remained a lingua franca across the Suntero-Azkali border, though declining in recent years due to the influence of both Oikan and Azkali — which virtually all Otzeipaonese speakers can also speak. Otzeipaonese

Otzeipaonese remains phonologically distinct from either of its parent languages, by the innovation of phonemic pitch accent or tone, a rich inventory of palatal sounds and vowels, and a complicated ergative verbal morphology system and nominative nominal system. Otzeipaonese retains many features of Contemporary Azkali, and generally features more verbal morphology than Azkali. However, it retains less verbal morphology than Oikan.

Phonology

		Bilabial	Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Labiovelar
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/			ng /ŋ/	ngm /ŋ͡m/
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/		ch /tɕ/	k /k/	kp /k͡p/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/			g /g/
Affricate			tz /t͡s/	ts /t̠͡ʂ/
Fricative	voiceless		z /s/	s /ʂ/		h /x/
	voiced	v /v/		zh /ʐ/
Approximant			l /l/		y /j/		w /w/
Rhotic			r /ɾ~r/

		Front	Back
Close	Unrounded	i /i/
	Rounded	ú /y/	u /u/
Mid	Unrounded	e /e/
	Rounded	ó /ø/	o /o/
Open		a /a/

Morphology

The morphology of Otzeipaonese remains remarkably unusual, and distinct from both Azkali and Oikan.

Pronouns

			Nominative	Accusative and Genitive	Privative
Singular	1p		e	ego	gótz
	2p	Informal	tu	tung	tungótz
		Formal	ius	iuntz	iungóz
	3p	Masculine	mai	men	makóz
		Feminine	kut	kuen	kekóz
		Neutral	he	hent	hehóz
Plural	1p		tou	ten	taóz
	2p		tere	touru	taúz
	3p		tin	eti	etúz

Verbs

Otzeipaonese is one of the few Ukilen languages which features polypersonal agreement. Otzeipaonese can index the subject, direct, and indirect objects of a sentence inside the verb complex, setting the language apart even further from both of it's parent languages. Otzeipaonese is notable in that its verb behave ergatively; the subject markers of an intransitive verb are identical to the direct object of transitive verbs. The reason for this behavior, which has been referred to as Otzeipaonese verb misalignment, has not been determined.

Otzeipaonese features two moods — the indicative and subjunctive — three tenses — the far past, past, and non-past — and two aspects — the imperfective and perfective.

This is the verb template of intransitive verbs:

Otzeipaonese intransitive verb template

Subject marker	VERB ROOT	Causality marker	Plural marker	Formality marker	TAM marker

And the transitive verb template:

Otzeipaonese transitive verb template

Direct object marker	VERB ROOT	Causality marker	Plural marker	Formality marker	Subject marker	Indirect object marker	TAM marker

Intransitive verbs

Subject indices

		Pronoun	Prefix
1p singular		e	e-
2p informal		tu	t-
2p formal		ius	iu(n)-
Far past	3p	he	k-
Past	3p		g-
Nonpast	3p		d-