Eadlan/Older draft

Older draft
Năttuovin
Created by	User:IlL
Setting	Verse:AETHER
Language family	Shalaic Older draft

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

A "Polish Sami but more Judeo-Gaelic and Hebrew" or "Windermere but more Sami"

Vowels

/i ɨ u ɛ ɔ ə a eə oə ai əi əu/ i î u e o ă a ea oa ai ăi ău

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/
  • c cc hc z zz hz /tsʰ tsːʰ ʔtsʰ ts~dz dːts hts/
  • ċ ċċ hċ ż żż hż /tʂʰ tʂːʰ ʔtʂʰ tʂ~dʐ dːtʂ htʂ/
  • ć ćć hć ź źź hź /tɕʰ tɕːʰ ʔtɕʰ tɕ~dʑ dːtɕ htɕ/
  • k kk hk 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/
  • j jj hj /j cː çː/
  • w ww hw /w kw xwː/
  • 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

Netagin has singular, dual, and plural numbers. Grammatical gender is animate vs inanimate.

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

• 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

Lushootseed (predicate first)?

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

Vocabulary

Shalaian as major loan source?