Śinax Netagin
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Modern Vernacular Netagin (VNtg) exists in a state of diglossia with Modern Classical Netagin. It exists in a sprachbund with Modern Windermere, Gwnax and other Bjeheondian languages.
Grammatical changes from Classical Netagin include:
- SAuxVO word order
- Loss of grammatical gender
- Loss of verbal binyan inflection, and use of verb-derived nouns (both old verbal nouns and less direct derivations, including reborrowings from CNtg) as verbs
- Relative clauses are resumptive
- As a result of Jespersen's cycle, negation uses a negative absolutive marker dean derived from the Classical connegative determiner de.
- SEA style serial verbs
- Emphatic -nk (< miek)
Modern Netagin people usually have Classical Netagin names
This article treats Bjeheondian Netagin; Tumhanian Netagin is tonal or Khmerized.
Phonology
Parts of speech
Pronouns
| 1sg | 2sg | 3sg | 1pl | 2pl | 3pl | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| m. | f. | n. | exclusive | inclusive | |||||
| (From CNtg emphatic set) | li | dů | man | xna | qejna; kyne | ťů | ťiem | ni | qeana |