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'''Netagin''' is a triconsonantal language inspired by Biblical Hebrew, spoken in Western Cuadhlabh. This page describes Ancient Netagin. | '''Netagin''' (''barīts Natāgīn'') is a triconsonantal language inspired by Biblical Hebrew, spoken in Western Cuadhlabh. This page describes Ancient Netagin. | ||
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Netagin (barīts Natāgīn) is a triconsonantal language inspired by Biblical Hebrew, spoken in Western Cuadhlabh. This page describes Ancient Netagin.
Todo
final -ʔ to block initial seimhiu
Roots
- n-t-g: ???
- r-s-d: study
- z-ʔ-r: go
- k-d-d: fly
- w-r-š: love
Phonology
Ancient Netagin
Ancient Netagin had the following consonants:
m n ŋ t tˁ k ʔ b d g f s ts ɬ tɬ ʃ ħ h z ʕ w r j
⟨m n ŋ t ṭ c ʔ b d g f s ts ś tś š ħ h z ȝ w r y⟩
The following vowels were used:
i iː u uː
a aː oː
aj aw
⟨i ī u ū a ā ō ay aw⟩
Stress is marked with an acute accent.
Old Netagin
Begadkefat: /t tˁ k b d g/ > /θ θˁ x v ð ɣ/ after a V
Vowels go through Tiberian Hebrew-ish changes
Modern Netagin
Morphology
Nouns
Vowel-reducing paradigms
The largest class of vowel-reducing nouns have á or é between the first and second radicals that reduces to a/e (harmonizing with the frontness of following vowel; i after a y) when a suffix is added.
"Crawling-up" nouns
The "crawling-up" (Netagin: mittzúchábh) nouns underlyingly end in a consonant cluster. In the singular oblique cases the stem is turned into a CaCC (if the bare form is CeCaC, CiCC for CéCaC and CoCC for CóCaC) form, and the dual and plural turn the stem into (CaCáC, CeCáC and CoCáC).
Nouns ending in geminated consonants
These nouns may take sound case/number suffixes, or get the broken plural as a CVCC/CVnC stem.
-eh
In nouns ending in -eh, the -eh is deleted before a case ending.
Pronouns
First person | Second person | Third person | |||||||
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Singular | Dual | Plural | Singular | Dual | Plural | Singular | Dual | Plural | |
Independent | ʔáctiʔ | ʔáccū | ʔáccā | ʔánniʔ | ʔánnū | ʔánnā | hiʔ | hínnū | hínnā |
Clitic | -tiʔ | -cū | -cā | -niʔ | -nū | -nā | -hiʔ | -hū | -hā |
Verbs
Netagin verbs, perhaps similarly to those of Biblical Hebrew, mark aspect and person, but not tense. (Netagin, rather unusually, renders tense as proclitics on NPs instead.) Non-concatenative morphology figures prominently in conjugation for valence and TAM, much like in Semitic and Proto-Indo-European. However, verbs can also be derived via derivational "mishqalim" patterns (with considerable overlap with nominal patterns).
Primary stems
- For inflectional paradigms, please see Netagin/Primary stem conjugation.
The primary stems inflect with heavy use of transfixes. Comprising about 500 verbs, this class is the counterpart to strong verbs in Germanic. There are up to 4 primary patterns or "binyanim" that a root may take in Netagin:
- In the Intransitive paradigm are verbs denoting intransitive actions ("come"), as well as stative verbs ("be cold"). It is often considered the most basic form. The difference between adjectives and stative verbs is roughly equivalent to the ser-estar distinction.
- The Transitive paradigm contains most monotransitive verbs, ("eat") including causativizations of Intransitive verbs ("make happy"). Can also have a telic (desired outcome was reached) meaning.
- The Reflexive pattern consists of verbs denote reflexive/reciprocal action ("get dressed", "kiss each other"), or change of state ("thicken").
- The Causative pattern contains causatives of transitive verbs ("feed") (and of some Intransitives and Reflexives). Causatives of statives in the imperfective aspect may denote active maintenance of a state (as opposed to changing a state in the perfective aspect).
Note that there is no passive in Netagin - this function is mainly served by zeroth person in transitive verbs or with Reflexive verbs, or simply topicalization of the patient.
Perfective | Imperfective | Participle | Action noun | |
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Intransitive | C1aC2aC3 | C1iC2C2aC3 | C1óC2éC3 | C1C2íC3N |
Transitive | C1C2óC3 | C1aC2C2í1C3 | meC1aC2C2íC3 | C1aC2C2íC3áˀN |
Reflexive | ˀiC1C2é1C3 | niC1C2é1C3 | miNC1úC2áC3 | ˀaC1C2óC3athN |
Causative | ˀaC1C2aC3 | NC1éC2aC3 | maC1C2áC3 | ˀaC1C2úC3áˀN |
1 Attenuates to a before a stressed suffix beginning with a consonant.
Suffixes beginning with a vowel cause the vowel between C2 and C3 to be elided.
The infinitive (inf) is formed by leniting the first letter of the bare stem of the verb, or if said first letter is a guttural or n, adding fa-.
The participle is an agent noun or an adjective. Adverbializing it yields manner of action "as if to X".
The action noun (axn) or gerund is used in action noun constructions, which are of the form SUBJECT-gen AXN OBJECT-acc. It is of importance in forming relative clauses, for Netagin does not have a relativizer.
Derived stems
The derived conjugation generates the bulk of new verbs in Netagin. The inflection, incorporating various concatenative formatives from the primary inflection, is almost entirely linear.
Perfective | Imperfective | Participle | Action noun | |
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Intransitive | ˀe[STEM] | [STEM] | miN[STEM] | ˀa[STEM]íthN |
Transitive | ˀa[STEM] | ˀiN[STEM] | mə[STEM] | [STEM]íyáˀN |
The infinitive is formed in the same manner as for the primary stems.
Patterns
Many (nowadays, most) derived verb patterns are verbalized noun patterns.
Affixes
Unipersonal (suffix) conjugation
The suffix conjugation is used for inherently intransitive (unaccusative) or reflexive verbs, and imperatives. Unipersonal verbs are negated in the optative/imperative by núrN.
0 | 1 | 2 |
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Stem/Voice/Aspect | Personal suffix | Imperative or Polarity/Focus |
In the indicative the personal suffixes represent the subject; in the imperative they indicate the object.
Unipersonal suffixes | |||
---|---|---|---|
Person | Singular | Paucal | Plural |
0 | -c[h]1áˀ | ||
1 | -d(i)/-gh(i)1/-t[h]1í3 | -t[h]1ú | -t[h]1áˀ |
2 | -ann | -nú | -náˀ |
3 | -(a)2/-í3 | -ú | -áˀ |
The 0th, 1st and 2nd person forms are penultimately stressed; the 3rd person forms are ultimately stressed.
1After vowels or mh.
2As indicative subject; not expressed without another suffix
3As imperative object.
Slot 2 suffixes | |
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Netagin | Gloss |
-n | Imperative (imp) |
-chú | Affirmative focus (aff.foc) |
-hí | Negative (neg) |
-náˀ/-cháˀ* | Negative focus (neg.foc) |
*In second person forms.