Netagin
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In the Unbegotten timeline, Netagin is a classical language of Edna's conworld. It's Windermere/Khmer/Vietnamese (or a broad/slenderized version of it) but it has suffixes.
Idavic, with 2-3 cases; head-initial
Phonology
Consonants
p b t d ṫ ḋ ċ ġ c g ' f s ṡ x ħ h m n ṅ ȝ l r w j /p b t d c ɟ tʃ dʒ k g ʔ f s ç ʃ 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