Eadlan/Older draft/Netagic

The Netagic languages are a subbranch of the Idavic family that includes Netagin. They are inspired by Uralic.

PId final *-a, *-i, *-u > PNtg *-æ/a, *-ɨ/ə, *-ɨ/ə -> Pre-Netagin *-ē, *-ë, *-ë > Old Netagin -i, -a, -a

Phonology

• Consonants: b d λ ǯ ʒ́ g p t ξ č ć k q s σ š ś m n ŋ l r w j
• Vowels: i/ɪ, e/ɛ, æ/a, ɨ/ə, o/ɔ, u/ʊ (i a u ī ā ū -> e a u i o ɨ; modal/stød -> ATR/RTR)
  • PNtg: ɪ ɛ æ a ɔ ʊ > ONtg iə eə eə a oə uə
• ATR/RTR harmony

Morphology

Nouns

Netagic retains cases and the dual, but the abstract gender merges into the inanimate gender.

Cases

Netagic merged the dative with the genitive.

• nominative
• accusative
• genitive

Adjectives

Paradigms

Weak paradigm: (animate/inanimate; sg, du, pl)

• nom: ŋɪda/ŋɪdə, ŋɪdanda/ŋɪdənda, ŋɪdɔnə/ŋɪdɔ
• gen: ŋɪdɛ/ŋɪdak, (nom du)=gid ŋɪdɪ/ŋɪdɔk

Strong paradigm (rare):

Verbs

Paradigms

Tenses: present, past, future, imperative, conditional, potential

Auxiliaries become new tense suffixes via SOV syntax in subordinate clauses

	weak-unprefixed	weak-prefixed	strong-unprefixed	strong-prefixed
imperative	kadī́r!	kadī́r dal!	ʔakʷ!	ʔakʷ nuš!
imperfect	kadī́rik	dal·kadī́r	ʔákʷik	nuš·ʔákʷ
active participle	kadī́riškʷ-	dal·kadī́riškʷ-	ʔákʷiškʷ-	nuš·ʔákʷiškʷ-
passive participle	ʔa·kadirī́n-	dálʔa·kadirī́n-	ʔa·ʔúkʷč-	núšʔa·ʔúkʷč-
infinitive	kadī́rti	dálkadirti	ʔā́kʷi~ʔãkʷi~ʔā̃kʷi~ʔíkʷi	núšʔakʷi, núšʔəkʷi, etc.
zu-infinitive	mi·kadī́rti	dálmikadirti	mi·ʔā́kʷi~mi·ʔãkʷi~mi·ʔā̃kʷi	núšmiʔakʷi, núšʔəkʷi, etc.
zu-participle	mi·kadī́riškʷ-	dálmikadiriškʷ-	mi·ʔákʷiškʷ-	núšmiʔakʷiškʷ-

Syntax

SOV