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Nëtuoghin
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Shalaic
  • Older draft

Netagin (Nëtuoghin) is an Ashkenazi Hebrew, Sami, Romanian and Polish-inspired Shalaic language. It is related to Shalaian but phonologically is less conservative.

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 Hebrew"

Vowels

/i ɨ u ɛ ɔ ə a eə oə/ i î u e o ă a ea oa

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 qː 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?