Śinax Netagin

Șinach Netagin (bric Nătahi Śinax ve /bʀitʂ nəˈt̪a(ɦ)i ˈsinax ve/; Wdm. fi brits Inthăgin Șinach; Crackfic Trician Irish an tSionnachais or just an Nadáthais) is the most widely spoken descendant of Classical Netagin in Tricin; it's spoken in Bjeheond and Cualuav (especially in Andaegor). It exists in a sprachbund with Nurian, Modern Naeng, 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 Tricin, 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 use the gap strategy
• 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

• ďaccerabaccera (may be stressed as ďáccera báccera) = unintelligible, 'it's all Greek to me'

Bric ťebari ku ďáccerabáccera amůr votok. (speech religious COP unintelligible come all) --- "Religious jargon just all sounds like gobbledygook to me."

• [Nů] mů dbe? (lit. "thou walk.GO.TELIC whither", pronoun can be omitted) 'Where are you going?'

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 å a /i ɨ u e ɛ ə o ɔ a/

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

Stress

Stress shift to penult? (to be able to pull a JBA and drop final consonants)

Parts of speech

Pronouns

Șinach Netagin has only one set of pronouns, from the Classical Netagin emphatic pronouns. They do not inflect for case.

1sg	2sg	3sg		1pl	2pl	3pl
		animate	inanimate
li	nů	naj	nas	ťů	nybi	nus

Subject pronouns can be omitted when they are clear from context, though Netagin has lost person inflection on verbs. Object pronouns can also be omitted...

Nouns

Like Naeng, Șinach Netagin has definite and specific articles. They're both postposed unstressed clitics:

• definite ve (< kyve 'that')
• specific di (< dybin 'hither' > 'here')

Prepositions

The CNtg oblique preposition my is analyzed as part of prepositions, resulting in many prepositions ending in -m. Most Șinach Netagin prepositions come from relational nouns or from words for locations in CNtg (reanalyzed as nouns). Though nouns, including relational nouns/prepositions, can take possessive affixes (like Hebrew nouns and prepositions), in everyday speech, motion used instead of personal markers.

Motion verbs

Śinax Netagin has inherited Classical Netagin motion verbs essentially unchanged; motion verbs are required to say "go", "come", "carry", "take" or "bring", as in Slavic. Śinax Netagin motion verbs use forms inherited from the Classical transgressive.

go vs. come in atelic?

Meaning	Telic, "go"	Telic, "come"	Atelic, "go"	Atelic, "come"
to go by foot, to walk	mů	mamů	vaććůl	vćaćůl
to go with a land vehicle	dlůk	madlůk	dalůk	dlalůk
to ride, to mount (trans.)	pacůj	mpacůj	pcůj	păcacůj
to go in	xpůŋ	maxpůŋ	xappůŋ	xpapůŋ
to go out; to rise (of heavenly bodies and other inanimate beings)	pdůś	mapdůś	paddůś	pdadůś
to set (of heavenly bodies) to fall (of precipitation)	śbůd	maśbůd	śabbůd	śbabůd
to run	ŋůź	maŋůź	ŋavvůź	ŋvavůź
to swim	nhůb	manhůb	nahůb	nhahůb
to fly	klůl	maklůl	kallůl	kaslůl
to float on water to go with a small boat, to row	nvahůt	manvahůt	vahůt	vhahůt
to flow (of a fluid or current)	bhůl (Binyan 1)	mabhůl (Binyan 2)	bahůl (Binyan 6)	băhahůl (Binyan 10)
to roll	mlůl	mamlůl	mallůl	maslůl
to climb	ďxůp	maďxůp	ďaxxůp	ďxaxůp
to jump	bcůc (Binyan 1)	mabcůc (Binyan 2)	baccůc (Binyan 6)	bascůc (Binyan 8)
to crawl	zůr (Binyan 1)	mazůr (Binyan 2)	zarzor (Binyan 6)	zăvavor (Binyan 10)
to fall (of animates) to go down (of inanimates)	namea (Binyan 1)	qanmea (Binyan 2)	nammea (Binyan 6)	nămamea (Binyan 10)
to dive, go into water	sadea (Binyan 2)	qasdea (Binyan 2)	saddea (Binyan 6)	sădadea (Binyan 10)
to carry, bring (on foot)	ŋapsoŋ (Binyan 4)	qapsoŋ (Binyan 2)	passoŋ (Binyan 6)	păsasoŋ (Binyan 10)
to carry, bring (using a vehicle) (trans.)	qiddalok (Binyan 6)	qadlok (Binyan 2)	dallok (Binyan 6)	dălalok (Binyan 10)
to carry, bring in	ŋaxpoŋ (Binyan 5)	qyxxapoŋ (Binyan 5)	xappoŋ (Binyan 6)	xăpapoŋ (Binyan 10)
to carry, bring out	ŋapdoś (Binyan 4)	qyppadoś (Binyan 5)	paddoś (Binyan 6)	pădadoś (Binyan 10)
to pull, drag (trans.)	kaćol (Binyan 1)	qakćol (Binyan 2)	qykaćol (Binyan 3)	kăćacol (Binyan 10)
to drive (an animal or a vehicle), lead	paďor (Binyan 1)	qapďor (Binyan 2)	paďďor (Binyan 6)	păďaďor (Binyan 10)

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.

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.