Netagin

In the Unbegotten timeline, Netagin is a classical language of Edna's conworld. It is designed to be optimized for writing piyyutim: like Hebrew, Netagin has stressed suffixes, so that words can rhyme like in Jewish piyyutim.

It's inspired by Hebrew, Old English, Khmer, Windermere and Maltese.

Phonology

Consonants

Conservative

p b t d ṫ ḋ ċ ġ c g ' s ṡ ħ h m n ṅ γ l r w j /p b t d c ɟ tʃ dʒ k g ʔ s ç x h m n ɲ ŋ l r w j/

Vowels

Less conservative; vowels in stressed syllables are lengthened

a e i u ā ē ī ū > /a eə e o oə y i ø/

a e i o ea oa eo ie /a e i o eə oə ø y/

Reduced vowels: a/o i/e u /a~ə ɨ~ɪ ʉ/

Russian/Hebrew style alternation between pretonic a and propretonic ə

Stress

Usually final, some penultimately-stressed "segolates" CVCVC or CVCCV

Morphology

Nouns

Netagin has 3 genders (masculine, feminine, neuter) and two cases (nominative, genitive; the feminine gender evolved from the Proto-Idavic abstract/honorific gender.

Netagin case affixes are regular:

• masculine nominative -a, -u; genitive -at, -ok
• feminine nominative -as, -is, genitive -os, -ok
• neuter nominative -0, -at, genitive -et, -ok