Śinax Netagin

Șinach Netagin (en Nătahi Śinaxi) is the most widely spoken descendant of Classical Netagin in Bjeheond. It's also spoken in Cualuav. It exists in a sprachbund with Nurian, Modern Windermere, Gwnax and other Bjeheondian languages.

I borrowed Șinach from Irish sionnach 'fox' because Bjeheond has a fox motif. In canon Tricin, it comes from Gwnax Si Ywnax 'Gwnax town'. In Crackfic Irta, the name actually does come from Irish via immigration to Bjeheond.

Grammatical changes from Classical Netagin include:

• SAuxVO word order
• Loss of grammatical gender and construct state
• Relative clauses are resumptive
• As a result of Jespersen's cycle, negation uses a negative absolutive marker dean derived from the Classical connegative determiner de.
• SEA style serial verbs
• Emphatic -mik (< miek)
• Tricons is derivational not inflectional

Modern Netagin people usually have Classical Netagin names

Should drop some final consonants like Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (which has qam > qa 'stand' and emar > ema 'say')

Inspiration: "What if Hebrew evolved further in Mainland Southeast Asia"

Lexicon

• ďaccarabaccara = unintelligible, 'it's all Greek to me'

Phonology

"Classical Netagin become Modern Saigon Vietnamese"

Consonants

• CNtg r /r/ becomes a uvular approximant [ʁ]
• ť ď /t d/ become /ʈ~ʈʂ ɖ~ɖʐ/
• ś ź /ɕ ʑ/ become non-retracted /s z/, while s z become /ʂ ʐ/
• ć /t͡ɕ/ merges with c /ts(ret)/ into /t͡ɕ/

Vowels

i u ů ė e ă o a /i ɨ u e ɛ ə ɔ a/

• unconditional: u > /ï/, ů > /u/
• ie = ė = /e/ but ie sometimes > /i/
• y > /i/, sometimes /ə/

Parts of speech

Pronouns

Șinach Netagin has only one set of pronouns, from the Classical Netagin emphatic pronouns.

1sg	2sg	3sg			1pl		2pl	3pl
		m.	f.	n.	exclusive	inclusive
li	dů	naj	nas	nis	ťů	ťiem	nybi	nus

Syntax

Present tense: subject + man + verb + object (the verb is usually etymologically a VN; man is from my + a demonstrative ne-)

Li jėn ma qišnaz, xambe kve man qalůť.

1SG NEG PRES obey, when that PRES bad

I do not obey others when it's wrong.

CNtg my becomes an oblique case marker, prepositions form from relational nouns

Poetry

Folk Netagin "piyyutim" use the same rhyming criteria as Classical Netagin "piyyutim", but they use weight-agnostic meters and are composed in Vernacular Netagin.