Bgapian
Introduction
Modern Netagin (nðoḡin) is the modern descendant of Classical Netagin. It is a prestige language in Talma.
ħaŋic böḏ hez tüŋ mikoś fazim ʔaŋbon kacăḏ xuʕos rifüy þaḇiŋ śḏüʕ zârüγ
Phonology
Orthography
Consonants
Modern Netagin lost Classical Netagin gemination, and gained new consonant contrasts as a result.
Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Pharyngeal | Glottal | ||
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Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | ||||||
Plosive | tenuis | b /p/ | d /t/ | g /k/ | ʔ /ʔ/ | ||||
voiced | ḇ /b/ | ḏ /d/ | ḡ /g/ | ||||||
aspirated | p /pʰ/ | t /tʰ/ | k /kʰ/ | ||||||
Affricate | c /ts/ | ć /tɬ/ | |||||||
Spirant | voiceless | f /f/ | þ /θ/ | x /x/ | |||||
voiced | v /v/ | ð /ð/ | γ /ɣ/ | ||||||
Nonspirant | voiceless | s /s/ | ś /ɬ/ | ħ /ħ/ | h /h/ | ||||
voiced | z /z/ | ||||||||
Approximant | r /ɾ/ | y /j/ | ȝ /ʁ~ʕ/ |
Vowels
Front | Central | Back | |
---|---|---|---|
Close | i /i/ | ü /y/ | u /u/ |
Mid | e /e/ | ö /ø/ | o /o/ |
Open | a /a/ |
Prosody
Stress
Intonation
Phonotactics
Morphophonology
Morphology
Nouns
Adjectives
Adjectives in -in decline as follows:
Singulative | Collective | Plurative | |
---|---|---|---|
Masculine | nthogin | nthoginu | nthogino |
Feminine | nthogiye | nthoginu | nthogibh |
Verbs
Derivational morphology
Syntax
Modern Netagin is a VSO, split-ergative langiage.