Overview
Trade language of the Goblin Exploration Guild, uniting a "Trading Company Empire" of Hobgoblins, Bugbears, Orcs, and Goblins (in the vein of the real-world East India Trading Company).
Origin
Derived from Spanish "Pactolengua" ("pact-language," itself from pacto "pact" + lengua "language"), filtered through a Hungarian phonological/structural lens — "lengua" replaced with the Hungarian word for language, nyelv, producing Paktonyelv.
Structure
Worked-out phonology, ergative-absolutive grammar, and a base-20 number system. Phonemes: voiceless stops /p, t, k/, voiced stops /b, d, g/, voiceless fricatives /f, s, h/, voiced fricative /v/, liquids /l, r/, palatal nasal /ɲ/. Vowels: /a, ɛ, i, o, u/, short or long. Syllable structure: (C)(C)V(C), with vowel harmony (front vowels group with front vowels, etc).
Relation to other conlangs
Possibly descended from a Zoquean-based proto-language intended as the setting's Proto-Indo-European analog — see Orystria for the "true name" naming-project work this ties to. Not yet confirmed as a direct genetic relationship rather than thematic parallel.
Source provenance
Source:
Kovács Hungarian-based Hobgoblin Language - 2023-04-09.md·2023-Q2(Paktonyelv coined within this session, alongside Kovács)