Eadlan/Older draft

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

Netagin (Năttuovin) is a Sami, Romanian and Polish-inspired Shalaic language. It is related to Shalaian but phonologically is less conservative.

Netagin has notably developed Uralic-style consonant gradation. It also has non-rhoticity as a historical sound change, a sprachbund feature it shares with Shalaian.

About

External history

This is the sixth 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 ___-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 share common features:

• Preglottalization
• A large vowel system but with no front rounded vowels
• Historical non-rhoticity
• Verb-initial syntax
• Split-ergativity

Phonology

"Sami but more Judeo-Gaelic and Hebrew" or "Windermere but more Sami"

Vowels

/i ɨ u ɛ ɔ ə a iə uə eə oə ai əi əu/ i ĭ u e o ă a ie uo ea oa ai ăi ău

Proto-Netagin a ā i ī u ū ə + modal/stød -> a uo e/ea i/ie o/oa u/uo ĭ/ă

Consonants

• Nasals: m bm pm n dn tn /m pm m̥ː n tn n̥ː/
• Stops:
  • p pp hp b bb hb /pʰ pːʰ ʔpʰ p~b bːp hp/
  • t tt ht d dd hd /tʰ tːʰ ʔtʰ t~d dːt ht/
  • ț țț hț d̦ d̦d̦ hd̦ /tsʰ tsːʰ ʔtsʰ ts~dz dːts hts/
  • c̦ c̦c̦ hc̦ j jj hj /tʃʰ tʃːʰ ʔtʃʰ tʃ~dʒ dːtʃ htʃ/
  • ŧ ŧŧ hŧ đ đđ hđ /tɬʰ tɬːʰ ʔtɬʰ tɬ~dɮ dːtɬ htɬ/
  • c cc hc g gg hg /kʰ kːʰ ʔkʰ k~g gːk hk/
  • q qq hq /qʰ qːʰ ʔqʰ/
• Other resonants:
  • l ll hl /ʟ qː χː/
  • r rr hr /r tr r̥ː/
  • y yy hy /j cː çː/
  • w ww hw /w kw xwː/
  • s ss ș șș ł łł dh h hh /s sː ʃ ʃː ɬ ɬː ð h xː/

Stress is always initial.

Gemination is phonemic: nC yielded the weak geminates and stød + C yielded the strong geminates.

Morphology

Nouns

Netagin has singular, dual, and plural numbers. Grammatical gender is animate vs inanimate.

Todo: Even and odd nouns

Adjectives

animate:

• nominative: qoahđbi /qʰoəθːpi/, qoađbidd /qʰoəðbidːt/, qoađbun /qʰoəðbun/ <- PShal *qũdba, *qũdband, *qũdbaan
• genitive: qoađbăt /qʰoəðbət/, qoahđbinid /qʰoəθ:pinid/, qoahđbă /qʰoəθ:pə/ <- *qũdbat, *qũdband=igid, *qũdbii

inanimate

• nominative: qoahđb, qoađbădd, qoahđbu <- *qũdbu, *qũdbund, *qũdbaa
• genitive: qoađb, qoahđbinid, qoađbuk <- *qũdbuk, *qũdbund=igid, *qũdbaak

Pronouns

Independent pronouns

• 1s hweal
• 2s hwead
• 1d hweażab
• 2d hweanib
• 1p hweaż
• 2p hweani

Possessive markers

Possessive markers have different forms depending on number and case.

• c̦uohl = a house (nominative singular)
• 1s c̦uolul
• 2s c̦uoludh
• 3s c̦uola (a); c̦uoli (i)
• 1d c̦uolujăv
• 2d c̦uolniv
• 3d c̦uoluv
• 1p c̦uoluj
• 2p c̦uolni
• 3p c̦uolus

• c̦uol = a house (genitive singular)
• 1s c̦uolăggăl
• 2s c̦uolăggădh
• 3s c̦uolăgg (a); c̦uoluy (i)
• 1d c̦uolăggăjăv
• 2d c̦uolăggăniv
• 3d c̦uolăggăv
• 1p c̦uolăggăj
• 2p c̦uolăggni
• 3p c̦uolăggăs

Syntax

Lushootseed (predicate first)?

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

Vocabulary

Shalaian as major loan source?