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Nydoghin
Created by	User:IlL
Setting	Verse:AETHER
Language family	Shalaic Older draft

Netagin (Nydoghin) is an Ashkenazi Hebrew- and Welsh-inspired Shalaic language. It is related to Shalaian but phonologically is less conservative.

About

External history

This is the fifth reincarnation of Netagin (my past Hebrew-inspired conlangs). I'm probably going to take a lot of aesthetic influence from Windermere and Skellan.

Internal history

Netagin, like its relative Shalaian, is also inspired by Hebrew and Philadelphia English but Netagin is more Judeo-Gaelic and Galatian-inspired than Shalaian.

Phonology

A "Polish Welsh"

Vowels:

• full: i ə u e~ai o~au ɛ œ ɔ a eə oə i y u ae ao e ö o a ea oa

Consonants:

• soft mutation:
  • p b t d h tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ k g q (p b t d h cz j ć j́ c g q) -> b v d ð z dʐ ʐ dʑ ʑ g ɣ ɴ (b v d ð z j ż j́ ź g gh l)
• ejectives and geminates (from creaky voice) become fricatives: p’ t’ tɬ’ tʃ’ k’ q’ h -> f θ ʃ ʃ x χ s (f þ sz sz ch lh s)
• fricatives: s ʂ ɕ h (s sz ś h)
• others: m n ɴ (historical L~historical ʕ) r w y ʔ

Stress is always penultimate.

Grammar

Nouns

Grammatical gender is animate vs inanimate, and is not marked unlike in Shalaian

plurals are bad

Pronouns

Independent pronouns

• chweal = I
• chweað = thou
• chweaż = we
• chweani = blotp

Possessive markers

• 1s czolal 'my house'
• 2s czolað 'your house'
• 3s ynczolas 'his/her house'; czolas 'its house'
• 1p czolaż 'our house'
• 2p czolni 'y'all's house'
• 3p ynczolad 'their (a) house'; czolad 'their (i) house'

Vocabulary

Shalaian as major loan source?