Eadlan/Older draft
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| Setting | Verse: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.
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Syntax
Lushootseed (predicate first)?
Myl las oszað, byddzal = Give me your hand, my love
Vocabulary
Shalaian as major loan source?