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Revision as of 22:43, 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 Classical Netagin gemination, and gained new consonant contrasts as a result. Modern Netagin thus has 23 root letters, but 30 consonants:
Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | ||||||
Plosive | tenuis | bb /p/ | dd /t/ | gg /k/ | ʔ /ʔ/ | ||||
voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | ||||||
aspirated | t /tʰ/ | k /kʰ/ | |||||||
Affricate | tenuis | cc /ts/ | ćć /tɬ/ | ||||||
aspirated | c /dz/ | ć /dɮ/ | |||||||
Spirant | voiceless | f /f/ | þ /θ/ | x /x/ | |||||
voiced | v /v/ | ð /ð/ | γ /ɣ/ | ||||||
Nonspirant | voiceless | s /s/ | ś /ɬ/ | ħ /ħ/ | h /h/ | ||||
voiced | z /z/ | ||||||||
Approximant | r /ɾ/ | y /j/ | ȝ /ʁ~ʕ/ |
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.