Netagin

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In the Unbegotten timeline, Netagin is a classical language of Edna's conworld. It's Windermere/Khmer/Vietnamese (or a broad/slenderized version of it) but it has suffixes.

Idavic, with 2-3 cases; head-initial

Phonology

Consonants

p b t d ṫ ḋ ċ ġ c g ' f s ṡ x ħ h m n ṅ ȝ l r w j /p b t d c ɟ tʃ dʒ k g ʔ f s ç ʃ x h m n ɲ ŋ l r w j/

Vowels

a e i o u ea oa eo ie /a e i o u eə oə ø y/

Reduced vowels: ă ĭ /a~ə ɨ/

Russian/Hebrew style alternation between pretonic a and propretonic ə

Stress

Usually final, some penultimately-stressed "segolates" CVCVC or CVCCV

Morphology

Nouns

Netagin has 3 cases and 3 genders (masculine, feminine, neuter); the feminine gender evolved from the Proto-Idavic abstract/honorific gender.

Netagin case affixes are regular:

  • masculine -a
  • feminine -as
  • neuter -0