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, sometimes with suffixes) li maj nas nis ťů ťiem nybi nus

Syntax

Derivation