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Netagin uses a consonantal root system like the Semitic languages. Most roots have three consonants but some may have two or four, the latter mostly in reduplicated or onomatopoeic roots. | Netagin uses a consonantal root system like the Semitic languages. Most roots have three consonants but some may have two or four, the latter mostly in reduplicated or onomatopoeic roots. | ||
===Nouns=== | ===Nouns=== | ||
Proto-Talmic has innovated a sex-based gender system with masculine and feminine genders: | |||
# Ancient Netagin had an honorific distinction which required agreement in verbs and adjectives. | |||
# In Late Ancient Netagin, the honorific developed into its own gender, often being used for big, sacred, specialized, or abstract things, in addition to people of high social status. | |||
# The word for "lady", ''bīlan'', became the normal word for "woman" (like how ''Frau'', formerly "lady", became the normal word for "woman" in German). | |||
# Thus, the former honorific agreement analogized to all women and became the feminine gender. | |||
===Verbs=== | ===Verbs=== | ||
Classical Netagin has 11 verb binyanim. | Classical Netagin has 11 verb binyanim. | ||