Classical Paxian Language

**Classical Paxian** is a language that was widely spoken in the old realm of Paxia for the majority of its 240 years in existence. Due to the low population of Paxia, it was the basis for nearly all spoken language. Many of its offshoot languages that were developed in Jagdas. Paxian split into a few separate branches geographically, the most prevalent being Relational Paxian, which was lost to time.

Paxian is largely forgotten by the normal citizenry today and is only maintained by many important divine and otherworldly figures.

Stoney published a dictionary that lists basic Paxian words and explains Paxian grammar.

## Grammar

Paxian is an SOV or VSO language. Indicative statements are often VSO. Unlike in Traveler's Tongue, if the subject is assumed, there is no need to use pronouns or indicate who the subject is. Paxian is fusional, because it has different word endings based on the part that the word plays in the sentence.

## Morpheme

### Prefixive

Kn-, km-, kñ-, gn-, gm-, gñ-,
Sn-, sm-, sr-, zn-, zm-, zr-,
shñ-, shr-, zhñ-, zhr-,
Ry-, rw-,
Qur-, qul-, qun-, qum-, gwr-, gwl-, gwn-, gwm-

### Suffixive

-pr, -tr, -kr,
-ks, -ksh

## Nouns

Paxian is a heavily noun-based language, as most of its constructions use nouns to create verbs. Many Paxian nouns are compound nouns, with a primary and a secondary noun. The primary noun will come second, and the new noun will derive its animate/inanimate gender from the primary noun.

### Articles

Much of nouns’ information comes from the articles which they use. All nouns use an article. The definite and indefinite articles are split into singular (a/the), plural (some/the), and partitive (some of/some of the).
Articles must agree with the noun case which the noun is- the nominative case (the subject of the sentence), the accusitive/oblique case (the object or any other noun of the sentence), and the genitive case (a case that shows the noun is associated with or possessing something, for example, of the cat)

Indefinite article
 Accusative
 Genitive

Definite article
 Accusative
 Genitive

### Declensions

Nouns decline by their gender (animate/inanimate) and their declension (1-3). Animate nouns generally adhere to nouns which interact with experience orbs, which the Paxians believed were the souls of spirits in the world. However, other nouns that are interactive or display some kind of motion or divine energy also inherit the animate gender. The first declension always goes to inanimate nouns. The second goes to animate. The third could go to either.

### Suffixes

These suffixes are attached after the inflection of the noun, and add more information about the intensity or nature of the noun. Oftentimes nouns with suffixes are made into other, compound nouns with more concrete meanings.

Suffixes
 Minimizer, very small

## Adjectives

Adjectives always follow the nouns they modify. They must agree only with the gender of the noun.

## Verbs

Verbs in Paxian work uniquely from many other languages.

Most verbs are constructions of one of the basic verbs + a noun in the nominative case. For example, to say “I am fishing”, would be something like “I am doing of fishing-pole”, or “I am taking fish”. This makes verbs very dynamic, and there are multiple ways to say the same thing.

All the other grammar involving verbs is added by a secondary word that can explain voice, tense, and aspect.

Verbs are modified by special adverbs that come after the verb construction. These adverbs can show tense (past, present, or future) and aspect (if something happened and is done, if something is ongoing, or if something happened up until a specified time)