Śinax Netagin

Șinach Netagin (bric Nătahi Śinax ve /bʀitʂ nəˈt̪aɦi ˈsinax ve/; Wdm. fi brits Inthăgin Șinach; Crackfic Trician Irish an tSionnachais) is the most widely spoken descendant of Classical Netagin in Tricin; it's spoken in Bjeheond and Cualuav (especially in Andaegor). It exists in a sprachbund with Nurian, Modern Windermere, Gwnax and other Bjeheondian languages.

I borrowed Șinach from Irish sionnach 'fox' because Bjeheond has a fox motif. In canon Tricin, it comes from Gwnax Si Ywnax 'Gwnax town'. In Crackfic Tricin, the name actually does come from Irish via immigration to Bjeheond.

Grammatical changes from Classical Netagin include:

• SAuxVO word order
• Loss of grammatical gender and construct state
• 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 -mik (< miek)
• Tricons is derivational not inflectional

Modern Netagin people usually have Classical Netagin names

Should drop some final consonants like Jewish Babylonian Aramaic (which has qam > qa 'stand' and emar > ema 'say')

Inspiration: "What if Hebrew evolved further in Mainland Southeast Asia"

Lexicon

• ďaccerabaccera (may be stressed as ďáccera báccera) = unintelligible, 'it's all Greek to me'

Bric ťebarin ku ďáccerabáccera votok midbin. (speech religious COP unintelligible all hither) --- "Religious jargon just all sounds like gobbledygook to me."

Phonology

"Classical Netagin become Modern Saigon Vietnamese"

Consonants

• CNtg r /r/ becomes a uvular approximant [ʁ]
• ť ď /t d/ become /ʈ~ʈʂ ɖ~ɖʐ/
• ś ź /ɕ ʑ/ become non-retracted /s z/, while s z become /ʂ ʐ/
• ć /t͡ɕ/ merges with c /ts(ret)/ into /t͡ɕ/

Vowels

i u ů ė e ă o a /i ɨ u e ɛ ə ɔ a/

• unconditional: u > /ï/, ů > /u/
• ie = ė = /e/ but ie sometimes > /i/
• y > /i/, sometimes /ə/

Stress

Stress shift to penult?

Parts of speech

Pronouns

Șinach Netagin has only one set of pronouns, from the Classical Netagin emphatic pronouns. They do not inflect for case.

1sg	2sg	3sg		1pl	2pl	3pl
		animate	inanimate
li	dů	naj	nas	ťů	nybi	nus

Subject pronouns can be omitted when they are clear from context, though Netagin has lost person inflection on verbs. Object pronouns can also be omitted...

Nouns

Like Modern Windermere, Șinach Netagin has definite and specific articles. They're both postposed unstressed clitics: -ve (< kyve 'that') for definite, -di (< -dbin 'hither' > 'here') for specific

Prepositions

CNtg my is analyzed as part of prepositions, resulting in many prepositions ending in -m. Most Șinach Netagin prepositions come from relational nouns or from words for locations in CNtg (reanalyzed as nouns). Though nouns, including relational nouns/prepositions, can take possessive affixes (like Hebrew nouns and prepositions), in everyday speech words for "here"/"hither" and "there"/"thither" are used instead of personal markers.

Syntax

Present tense: subject + man + verb + object (the verb is usually etymologically a VN; man is from my + a demonstrative ne-)

Li jėn ma qišnaz, xambe kve man qalůť.

1SG NEG PRES obey, when that PRES bad

I do not obey others when it's wrong.

Poetry

Folk Netagin "piyyutim" use the same rhyming criteria as Classical Netagin "piyyutim", but they use weight-agnostic meters and are composed in Vernacular Netagin.