Bgapian

Introduction

Modern Netagin (nthogin) is the modern descendant of Classical Netagin. It is a prestige language in Talma.

Phonology

Consonants

Modern Netagin lost Classical Netagin gemination, and gained new consonant contrasts as a result. Modern Netagin thus has 23 root letters, but 28 consonants:

		Labial	Alveolar	Lateral	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/			ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive	tenuis	b /p/	ḏ /t/			ḡ /k/			ʔ /ʔ/
	voiced	ḇ /b/	d /d/			g /g/
	aspirated		t /tʰ/			k /kʰ/
Affricate			c /ts/	ć /tɬ/
Spirant	voiceless	f /f/	þ /θ/				x /x/
	voiced	v /v/	ð /ð/				γ /ɣ/
Nonspirant	voiceless		s /s/	ś /ɬ/				ħ /ħ/	h /h/
	voiced		z /z/
Approximant			r /ɾ/		y /j/		ȝ /ʁ~ʕ/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i /i/	ü /y/	u /u/
Mid	e /e/	ö /ø/	o /o/
Open		a /a/

Morphology

Adjectives

Adjectives in -in decline as follows:

nthogin 'Netagin'

	Singulative	Collective	Plurative
Masculine	nthogin	nthoginu	nthogino
Feminine	nthogiye	nthoginu	nthogibh

Syntax

Modern Netagin is a VSO, split-ergative langiage.