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


plurals are bad, dual is ''-ann''
plurals are bad, dual is ''-unn''


===Pronouns===
===Pronouns===

Revision as of 11:43, 3 April 2020

Older draft
Nydoghin
Created byUser:IlL
SettingVerse:AETHER
Shalaic
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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 but more Hebrew"

Vowels:

  • full: i ə u e~ai o~au ɛ œ~ay 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)
  • geminates (from creaky voice) become fricatives: p’ t’ tɬ’ tʃ’ k’ q’ h -> f θ ʂ ʂ 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.

nC -> CC

Morphology

Nouns

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

plurals are bad, dual is -unn

Pronouns

Independent pronouns

  • 1s chweal
  • 2s chweað
  • 1d chweażav
  • 2d chweaniv
  • 1p chweaż
  • 2p chweani

Possessive markers

  • 1s czolal 'my house'
  • 2s czolað 'your house'
  • 3s ynczolas 'his/her house'; czolas 'its house'
  • 1d czolażav
  • 2d czolniv
  • 3d czolav
  • 1p czolaż 'our house'
  • 2p czolni 'y'all's house'
  • 3p czolad 'their house'

Syntax

SOV head-initial? OVS? Lushootseed (predicate first)?

Vocabulary

Shalaian as major loan source?