Plitnakya

Plitnakya
Spoken in:	Scotland (Skotlanda)
Conworld:	League of Lost Languages
Total speakers:	~2,000
Genealogical classification:	Atlantic Scotic NW Scotic Plitnakya
Basic word order:	VSO
Morphological type:	Polysynthetic
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Active-Stative, Hierarchical
Writing system:
Created by:
Taylor Selseth	2010 C.E.

Plitnakya [pʰliʦ̺nakja] is a highly endangered language isolate spoken by about 2,000 people in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland. It has a complex, polysythetic morphology that is very unusual for Europe and is likely a relic of the first people to populate Britain after the Pleistocene Glaciation.

Phonology

Plitnakya is unusual in that it contrasts between Laminal-Dental and Aplical-Alveolar points of articulation and has no rhotic. It has a root structure of (F)(C)(F|L)V(F|L)(C) where C is any consonant, F is a fricative, and L is a liquid or nasal.

IPA

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Stops, plain	p	t̻	t̺	ʧ	k
Stops, aspirated	pʰ	t̻ʰ	t̺ʰ	ʧʰ	kʰ
Fricatives	f	θ	s	ʃ	x
Nasals	m	n
Liquids	w	l	j

Plain stops and fricatives are voiced when between two voiced phonemes. /l/ is velarized when it follows a back vowel and is [ɾ] between vowels. /t̻ʰ t̺ʰ/ are realized as [tθ ʦ] between vowels and before nasals.

	Front	Center	Back
High	i iː		u uː
Mid	e eː		o oː
Low	aj	a aː	aw

Orthography

	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Stops, plain	b	dh	d	j	g
Stops, aspirated	p	th	t	c	k
Fricatives	f	z	s	sh	h
Nasals	m	n
Liquids	w	l	y

	Front	Center	Back
High	i ii		u uu
Mid	e ee		o oo
Low	ai	a aa	au

Nouns

Nouns fall into an Animancy Hierarchy of 2nd Person < 1st Person < people and animate collectives < non-person animates < natural forces < other inanimates and collectives. There is no case marking. Noun morphological structure is:

1. Number
2. Definite Prefix
3. Noun Stem
4. Possessive affixes

Number

Nominal number is marked by a prefix on the noun. There are 3 numbers: Singular, Dual, and Plural. Mass nouns do not inflect for number but are instead required to be compounded with a measure word. Singular is unmarked

	C-Stem	V-Stem
Dual	tha-	th-
Plural	he	sh-

Possessive inflection

Who posseses a noun, if any, is marked as a suffix following the noun. Some nouns, mainly those that are usually inalienably possessed, must be marked as possessed, if only marked with the indefinite inflection.

	1st Person Incl.	1st Person Incl.	2nd Person	3rd person	4th Person	Indefinite
Singular		-na	-ga	-ca	-soa	-olu
Plural		-aga	-aka	-acca	-asho	-klu

Definiteness

Definiteness is be marked by the prefix -li- in animates and -zo- in inanimates. indefinite nouns used in a generic sense are incorporated into the verb. Possessed nouns are never marked as definite.

Verbs

Verbs are the most complex part of the language by far. As in many polysynthetic languages a single word can mean a whole English sentence.