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Năttuovin
Created byUser:IlL
SettingVerse:AETHER
Shalaic
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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 c̦uolăgăl
  • 2s c̦uolăgădh
  • 3s c̦uolăg (a); c̦uoluy (i)
  • 1d c̦uolăgăjăv
  • 2d c̦uolăgăniv
  • 3d c̦uolăgăv
  • 1p c̦uolăgăj
  • 2p c̦uolăgni
  • 3p c̦uolăgăs


Syntax

Lushootseed (predicate first)?

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

Vocabulary

Shalaian as major loan source?