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Revision as of 22:34, 31 August 2017
Introduction
Modern Netagin (nthogin) is the modern descendant of Classical Netagin. It is a prestige language in Talma.
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
Modern Netagin lost gemination and gained new consonant contrasts as a result.
Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | ||||||
Plosive | unaspirated | b /p~b/ | d /t~d/ | g /k~g/ | ʔ /ʔ/ | ||||
aspirated | t /tʰ~dʰ/ | k /kʰ~gʰ/ | |||||||
Affricate | c /ts~dz/ | ć /tɬ~dɮ/ | |||||||
Spirant | voiceless | f /f~v/ | þ /θ~ð/ | x /x~ɣ/ | |||||
voiced | v /v/ | ð /ð/ | γ /x~ɣ/ | ||||||
Nonspirant | voiceless | s /s/ | ś /ɬ/ | ħ /ħ/ | h /h/ | ||||
voiced | z /z/ | ||||||||
Approximant | r /ɾ/ | y /j/ | ȝ /ʁ~ʕ/ |
m n ŋ
tʰ t kʰ k ʔ
b d g
f s ts ɬ tɬ ħ h
z ʁ
w ɾ j
⟨m n ŋ þ t x k ʔ b d g f s c ś ć ħ h z ȝ w r y⟩
Begadkefat: /t k b d g/ > /θ x v ð ɣ/ after a V; transliterated th kh bh dh gh (optional across word boundaries)
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i /i/ | ü /y/ | u /u/ |
Mid | e /e/ | ö /ø/ | o /o/ |
Open | a /a/ |
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
Adjectives
Adjectives in -in decline as follows:
Singulative | Collective | Plurative | |
---|---|---|---|
Masculine | nthogin | nthoginu | nthogino |
Feminine | nthogiye | nthoginu | nthogibh |
Verbs
Derivational morphology
Syntax
Modern Netagin is a VSO, split-ergative langiage.