Pataari

Pataari
Pronounced:	[pɑdɑːɹɪ]
Timeline and Universe:	NS
Spoken:	Various Tribes as a lingua franca
Total speakers:	???
Writing system:	Latin
Genealogy:	Jevakki   Hinono    Faxo-Pataari
Typology
Morphological type:	Agglunative
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Tripartite
Basic word order:	topic-focus
Credits
Creator:	Ulan / Dave S
Created:	Fall 2009

Consonants

Asterisks mark sounds not fully represented with the orthography, brackets show how sounds are represented

	labial	dental	alveolar	post-alveolar	palatal	velar	glottal
stops	p|p| b*		t<t> d*			k<k> g*	(ʔ)
fricatives	ɸ* β*	θ<3> ð*	s"s" z*	ʃ<ş> ʒ*		x<x> ɣ*	h<h>
nasals	m<m>		n<n>		ŋ*
liquids		ɹ* l<l>
glides	w<w>				y<y>

[p t k x ʃ s l θ t͡s t͡ʃ] → [β d g ɣ ʒ z ɹ ð d͡z d͡ʒ] In between vowels, when a consonant is before the final vowel of a word, it is often devoiced allowing possibilities like [ɸ]. After nasals and liquids [p] just become [b], rather than [β].

Vowels

Brackets show how sounds are written, asterisks show sounds that usually only follow after velar consonants

Monophthongs of Pataari

	Front		Central		Back
	long	short	long	short	long	short
Close	iː<ii>	ɪ"i"			uː<uu>*	ʊ"u"*
Mid	ɛː <ee>	ɛ<e>			ɔː<oo>	ɔ<o>
Open					ɑː<aa>	ɑ<a>

Dipthongs: [ei] [ɔu] [ie] and [ai] shown as <ei, ou, ie, ai>

Prosody and Stress

A heavy syllable is defined as one with a diphthong, long vowel, or one that closes with a consonant. There are no superheavy syllables (though, there are some rare exceptions) within Pataari, as in one that has a diphthong or long vowel and closes with a consonant. So, with VV beeing a diphthong, the sylable structure follows as:
V | CV
VV | CVV
VC | CVV
A word must at least have two light syllables or one heavy one, and never end with a consonant. Stress is marked by a higher pitch on either the first heavy syllable or first light syllable if there are no heavy syllables are within the word. Every following heavy syllable carries secondary stress after that, or every other light syllable -- the final light syllable is never stressed.