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Nydoghin
Created by	User:IlL
Setting	Verse:AETHER
Language family	Shalaic Older draft

Netagin (Nydoghin) is an Ashkenazi Hebrew-, Brythonic- and Polish-inspired Shalaic language. It is related to Shalaian but phonologically is less conservative.

About

External history

This is the fifth reincarnation of Netagin (my past Hebrew-inspired conlangs). I'm probably going to take a lot of aesthetic influence from Windermere and Skellan.

Internal history

Netagin, like its relative Shalaian, is also inspired by Hebrew and Philadelphia English but Netagin is more Judeo-Gaelic and Galatian-inspired than Shalaian.

Internal² history

Shalaian and Netagin belong to a common sprachbund. They are two different branches of the Shalaic family that convergently evolved to be head-initial and ergative.

Phonology

A "Polish Welsh but more Judeo-Gaelic Hebrew"

Vowels: /i y ɨ u ai ø~ay ɛ ɔ a eə oə/ i u y ó ae au e o a ea oa

Consonants:

• soft mutation:
  • p b t d h ts dz tʂ dʐ tɕ dʑ k g q (p b t d h c dz cz dż ć dź k g q) -> b v d ð dz z dʐ ʐ dʑ ʑ g ɣ ɴ (b v d dh dz z dż ż dź ź g gh l)
• older geminates (from creaky voice) become fricatives: p’ t’ tɬ’ tʃ’ k’ q’ h -> f θ ʂ ʂ x χ s (f th sz sz ch lh s)
• fricatives: s ʂ ɕ h (s sz ś h)
• others: m n ɴ (historical L~historical ʕ) r w y ʔ

Stress is always penultimate.

Gemination is phonemic: nC -> CC

Morphology

Nouns

Grammatical gender is animate vs inanimate, and is not marked unlike in Shalaian.

Plurals are bad:

• i-affection: czowan, czuwen 'cloud'
• reduplication: raudżos, rodżaudżos 'fern'
• -óg: folar, folaróg 'rose'

dual is -odd /od:/

The definite article is ki (cognate to the Shalaian definite article ħi):

• The animate singular uses the aspiration mutation (from the abstract-honorific singular *-ʀ)
• The inanimate singular uses no mutation
• The plural uses the soft mutation

Pronouns

Independent pronouns

• 1s chweal
• 2s chweadh
• 1d chweażav
• 2d chweaniv
• 1p chweaż
• 2p chweani

Possessive markers

• 1s czolal 'my house'
• 2s czoladh 'your house'
• 3s ycczoli 'his/her house'; czoli 'its house'
• 1d czolażav
• 2d czolniv
• 3d czolav
• 1p czolaż 'our house'
• 2p czolni 'y'all's house'
• 3p czolas 'their house'

Syntax

SOV head-initial? OVS? Lushootseed (predicate first)?

Myl las oszað, byddzal = Give me your hand, my love

Vocabulary

Shalaian as major loan source?