Packilvanian language

The Packilvanian language is the official language of Packilvania. It belongs to the Yastero-Auroran language family.

Phonology

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i		u
Mid	ɛ		ɔ
Open		a

Consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Postalveolar	Velar	Glottal	Uvular
Nasal		m	n			ŋ
Plosive	Voiced	b	d				g
	Voiceless	p	t				k
Affricate	Sibilant			ts
Fricative	Voiced		v	z
	Voiceless		f	s			h	ch
Approximant				l	j	w
Trill			r

Grammar

Nouns

Nouns are marked for class, case and number. Packilvanian nouns are built as follows:

(Negation)-Definiteness-Case-class-number-root.

Definiteness

Definiteness is marked by the tone of the first syllable of the word.

• Indefiniteness: High tone
• Definiteness: Low tone

Negation

Negation is marked with a 'g' (or a ge if the word starts with a consonant) and always occurs at the start of a word.

Cases

Case	Prefix
Nominative	none
Accusative	o-
Genitive	a-
Instrumental	ye-
Locative	we-

Classes

Classes or genders go after cases and before number.

Class	Infix
Abstract	-l-
Inanimate	-n-
Animate	-v-
Sapient	-b-

Number

Number goes after the class and before the root.

Number	Infix
Singular	-u-
Plural	-e-
Uncountable	-o-

Verbs

Verbs are inflected with the same affixes as the noun they relate to. Verbs are inflected for time as follows:

	Tense
			Non-past	Past
Aspect	Perfect		none	-ev or -v
	Imperfective	Habitual	none	-er or -r
		Continuous	none	-eg - or -g

Pronouns

This page (or section) is a work in progress by its author(s) and should not be considered final.

Pronouns are inflected for case.

		Person
		Addressor	Addressee	Proximate	Obviative
Clusivity	Inclusive	mu	bu	bu	bu	Sapient	Class
			le	nu	nu	Non-sapient
	Exclusive	none	be	ne	ne	Sapient
			le	ne	ne	Non-sapient