Netagin

In the Unbegotten timeline, Netagin is a classical language of Edna's conworld. It's (or a broad/slenderized version of it) but it has suffixes.

Idavic, with 2-3 cases; head-initial

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

Phonology

Consonants

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

Vowels

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

Reduced vowels: ă ĭ /a~ə ɨ/

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