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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
Conservative | |||
p b t d ṫ ḋ ċ ġ c g ' s ṡ ħ h m n ṅ γ l r w j /p b t d c ɟ tʃ dʒ k g ʔ s ç x h m n ɲ ŋ l r w j/ | p b t d ṫ ḋ ċ ġ c g ' s ṡ ħ h m n ṅ γ l r w j /p b t d c ɟ tʃ dʒ k g ʔ s ç x h m n ɲ ŋ l r w j/ | ||
===Vowels=== | ===Vowels=== | ||
a e i o | Less conservative; vowels in stressed syllables are lengthened | ||
a e i u ā ē ī ū > /a eə e o oə y i ø/ | |||
a e i o ea oa eo ie /a e i o eə oə ø y/ | |||
Reduced vowels: ă ĭ /a~ə ɨ/ | Reduced vowels: ă ĭ /a~ə ɨ/ | ||
Revision as of 14:28, 30 August 2020
In the Unbegotten timeline, Netagin is a classical language of Edna's conworld. It's (or a broad/slenderized version of it) but it has suffixes.
It's inspired by Hebrew, Old English, Khmer, and Maltese.
Phonology
Consonants
Conservative
p b t d ṫ ḋ ċ ġ c g ' s ṡ ħ h m n ṅ γ l r w j /p b t d c ɟ tʃ dʒ k g ʔ s ç x h m n ɲ ŋ l r w j/
Vowels
Less conservative; vowels in stressed syllables are lengthened
a e i u ā ē ī ū > /a eə e o oə y i ø/
a e i o ea oa eo ie /a e i o eə oə ø y/
Reduced vowels: ă ĭ /a~ə ɨ/
Russian/Hebrew style alternation between pretonic a and propretonic ə
Stress
Usually final, some penultimately-stressed "segolates" CVCVC or CVCCV
Morphology
Nouns
Netagin has 3 genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and two cases (nominative, genitive; the feminine gender evolved from the Proto-Idavic abstract/honorific gender.
Netagin case affixes are regular:
- masculine nominative -a, -u; genitive -at, -ok
- feminine nominative -as, -is, genitive -os, -ok
- neuter nominative -0, -at, genitive -et, -ok