Eadlan/Older draft
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| Setting | Verse:AETHER |
Shalaic
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Netagin (Nătuovin) is a Hebrew, 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 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 ___-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 Sami but more Judeo-Gaelic and Hebrew"
Vowels
/i ɨ u ɛ ɔ ə a eə oə ai ei oi/ i î u e o ă a ea oa ai ei au
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 bːp hp/
- t tt ht d dd hd /tʰ tːʰ ʔtʰ t dːt ht/
- c cc hc z zz hz /tsʰ tsːʰ ʔtsʰ ts dːts hts/
- ċ ċċ hċ ż żż hż /tʂʰ tʂːʰ ʔtʂʰ tʂ dːtʂ htʂ/
- ć ćć hć ź źź hź /tɕʰ tɕːʰ ʔtɕʰ tɕ dːtɕ htɕ/
- k kk hk g gg hg /kʰ kːʰ ʔkʰ k gːk hk/
- q qq hq l ll hl /qʰ qːʰ ʔqʰ ʟ ɢːq χː/
- Other resonants:
- r rr hr /r tr r̥ː/
- j jj hj /j cː çː/
- v vv hv /v kv fː/
- s ss ṡ ṡṡ ś śś h hh /s sː ʂ ʂː ɕ ɕː h xː/
Stress is always initial.
Gemination is phonemic: nC yielded the weak geminates and stød + C yielded the strong geminates.
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?