Bgapian

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Introduction

Modern Netagin (nhþohgin) is the modern descendant of Classical Netagin. It is a prestige language in Talma.

ħaŋic böhd hez tüŋ mikoś fazzim ʔaŋbon kacăhd xuʕos rifüy þahbiŋ śhdüʕ zârüγ

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 28 consonants:

Labial Alveolar Lateral Palatal Velar Uvular Pharyngeal Glottal
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive tenuis b /p/ d /t/ g /k/ ʔ /ʔ/
voiced /b/ /d/ /g/
aspirated t /tʰ/ k /kʰ/
Affricate c /ts/ ć /tɬ/
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:

nthogin 'Netagin'
Singulative Collective Plurative
Masculine nthogin nthoginu nthogino
Feminine nthogiye nthoginu nthogibh

Verbs

Derivational morphology

Syntax

Modern Netagin is a VSO, split-ergative langiage.

Constituent order

Noun phrase

Verb phrase

Sentence phrase

Dependent clauses

Example texts

Other resources