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!| Genitive
| ''rʊsat'' || ''rʊsandəmak'' || ''rʊsɔk''
| ''rʊsan'' || ''rʊsandəmak'' || ''rʊsɔk''
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!| Nominative
| ''ɛpŋə'' || ''ɛpŋəndə'' || ''ɛpŋɔt''
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!| Accusative
| ''ɛpŋə'' || ''ɛpŋəndə'' || ''ɛpŋɔt''
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!| Genitive
| ''ɛpŋət'' || ''ɛpŋəndəmak'' || ''ɛpŋɔk''
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!| Genitive
!| Genitive
| ''šullæt'' || ''šullændɨmæk'' || ''šullok''
| ''šullæn'' || ''šullændɨmæk'' || ''šullok''
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| ''šærmɨ'' || ''šærmɨndɨ'' || ''šærmot''
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!| Accusative
| ''šærmɨ'' || ''šærmɨndɨ'' || ''šærmot''
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!| Genitive
| ''šærmɨt'' || ''šærmɨndɨmæk'' || ''šærmok''
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Revision as of 08:40, 15 May 2020

The Netagic languages are a subbranch of the Idavic family that includes Netagin. They are inspired by Uralic.

PId final *-a, *-i, *-u > PNtg *-æ/a, *-ɨ/ə, *-ɨ/ə -> Pre-Netagin *-ē, *-ë, *-ë > Old Netagin -i, -a, -a

Phonology

  • Consonants: b d λ ǯ ʒ́ g p t ξ č ć k q s σ š ś m n ŋ l r w j
  • Vowels: i/ɪ, e/ɛ, æ/a, ɨ/ə, o/ɔ, u/ʊ (i a u ī ā ū -> e a u i o ɨ; modal/stød -> ATR/RTR like glottalization > uvularization in arabic)
    • PNtg: ɪ ɛ æ a ɔ ʊ > ONtg iə eə eə a oə uə
  • ATR/RTR harmony
  • Initial stress modulo prefixes

Morphology

Pronouns

Nouns

Netagic retains cases and the dual, but the abstract gender merges into the inanimate gender.

Cases

Netagic merged the dative with the genitive.

  • nominative
  • accusative
  • genitive

rʊsa 'dog'
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative rʊsa rʊsandə rʊsɔn
Accusative rʊsaj rʊsandə rʊsɪk
Genitive rʊsan rʊsandəmak rʊsɔk
ɛpŋə 'tree'
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative ɛpŋə ɛpŋəndə ɛpŋɔt
Accusative ɛpŋə ɛpŋəndə ɛpŋɔt
Genitive ɛpŋət ɛpŋəndəmak ɛpŋɔk

šullæ 'horse'
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative šullæ šullændɨ šullon
Accusative šullæj šullændɨ šullik
Genitive šullæn šullændɨmæk šullok


šærmɨ 'stone'
Singular Dual Plural
Nominative šærmɨ šærmɨndɨ šærmot
Accusative šærmɨ šærmɨndɨ šærmot
Genitive šærmɨt šærmɨndɨmæk šærmok

Pronominal suffixes

Adjectives

Paradigms

Weak paradigm: (animate/inanimate; sg, du, pl)

  • nom: ŋidæ/ŋidɨ, ŋidændæ/ŋidɨndæ, ŋidonɨ/ŋido
  • gen: ŋide/ŋidæk, (nom du)=gid ŋidi/ŋidok

Strong paradigm (rare):

Verbs

Paradigms

Tenses: present, past, future, imperative, conditional, potential

Auxiliaries become new tense suffixes via SOV syntax in subordinate clauses

weak-unprefixed weak-prefixed strong-unprefixed strong-prefixed
imperative kadī́r! kadī́r dal! ʔakʷ! ʔakʷ nuš!
imperfect kadī́rik dal·kadī́r ʔákʷik nuš·ʔákʷ
active participle kadī́riškʷ- dal·kadī́riškʷ- ʔákʷiškʷ- nuš·ʔákʷiškʷ-
passive participle ʔa·kadirī́n- dálʔa·kadirī́n- ʔa·ʔúkʷč- núšʔa·ʔúkʷč-
infinitive kadī́rti dálkadirti ʔā́kʷi~ʔãkʷi~ʔā̃kʷi~ʔíkʷi núšʔakʷi, núšʔəkʷi, etc.
zu-infinitive mi·kadī́rti dálmikadirti mi·ʔā́kʷi~mi·ʔãkʷi~mi·ʔā̃kʷi núšmiʔakʷi, núšʔəkʷi, etc.
zu-participle mi·kadī́riškʷ- dálmikadiriškʷ- mi·ʔákʷiškʷ- núšmiʔakʷiškʷ-

Prepositions

Derivation

Syntax

SOV with prepositions

Lexicon