Old Partri

Found in place names, most modern calendars, loan word vocabularies of numerous modern languages, this lingua franca was the dominant tongue of the old Empire of Partrinex before its collapse. A living grammar has yet to be reconstructed by linguists, but many hundreds of words, roots, and sentences have surviving meanings which carry over from before the fall. The Neo-Partri language spoken by citizens of Partem is most directly descended from this language, but there are a surprising number of divergences to be found between Old and Neo-Partri.

Writing System

Partrinex developed a writing system relatively early in its history, using reeds growing on the banks of the Katamarin Isle to create rudimentary paper. The Old Partri writing system uses an alphabet.
See Old Partri Alphabet. (add a link here)

Geographical Distribution

The Entire Continent

Phonology

Consonants

p t k m n r ɽ
β f v s z ʃ

Vowels

i ɛ ə o a ɑ

Morphology

Scholars still participate in a lively debate over this language's morphology, but there aren't enough surviving texts to assemble a complete picture of the word-formation patterns, except for a preference toward compound forms over derivational ones.

Syntax

Old Partri is an SVO language. Sentences are usually written in the order of subject, verb, object. There are four recognizable tenses; impossible, past, possible, and future. Old Partri has three cases; nominative, accusative, and genitive.

Tenses

Impossible
Past
Possible
Future

Sentence Structure

Subject Verb Object

Adjective Order

Adjectives generally follow nouns in Old Partri.

Structural Markers

-x is used as a determinative suffix.

Dictionary

1 Words.

Common Phrases

Karxaa revex

They rule

Common Male Names

Arvax, Xarak