Pataxea

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eNekealiges Pataxea, often shortened to Pataxea (Azkali: Noazkalai Patua) and variously referred to as Proto-Azkali, Ancient Azkali, and Archaic Azkali, is the ancestor of the modern Azkali language, which arose in Yamahat and Azkali after diffusing there from [northern continent].


Etymology and nomenclature

History

Pre-Pataxea (12,000 BCE?)

Pataxea (8000-6000 BCE)

Late Pataxea (4000 BCE)

Nokian Pataxea and evolution into Old (2302 BCE onwards)

Increased usage and revival

Current day

Influence

Phonology

Orthography

Morphology

Nouns

Verbs

Pataxea verbal morphology is substantially less complicated than Azkali verbal morphology: unlike in Azkali, in which all verbs can conjugate for the full spectrum of tense, mood, persons, etc, only a very small subset of Pataxea verbs can. The verbs that can conjugate like this are called synthetic verbs, while the rest are called periphrastic (verbs). The only synthetic Pataxea verbs are is (to be), ia (to have), ahha (to do), eiexe (to have), reas (to run), and ea (to give). When using a periphrastic verb, however, an auxiliary verb (mostly is and ahha) with the full range of person, tense, and mood information is required to fully parse a sentence.

In Pataxea, the sentence Kre saxanereal sarieak translates to "I ate with him". This can be broken down into:

Kre saxan ereal sa ri ea k
first person singular

ergative pronoun

stem past

participle

third person singular

masculine absolutive affix

past tense stem of is accompaniment

verbal version

first person singular

ergative affix

I eaten he was with I

Writing system

Lexicon

Influences on other languages