Bgapian

Introduction

Modern Netagin (nhþohgin) is the modern descendant of Classical Netagin. It is a prestige language in Talma.

ħaŋic böhd hez tüŋ mikoś fazzim ʔaŋbon kacăhd xuʕos rifüy þahbiŋ śhdüʕ zârüγ

Phonology

Consonants

Modern Netagin lost Classical Netagin gemination, and gained new consonant contrasts as a result. Modern Netagin thus has 23 root letters, but 28 consonants:

		Labial	Alveolar	Lateral	Palatal	Velar	Uvular	Pharyngeal	Glottal
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/			ŋ /ŋ/
Plosive	tenuis	b /p/	d /t/			g /k/			ʔ /ʔ/
	voiced	ḇ /b/	ḏ /d/			ḡ /g/
	aspirated		t /tʰ/			k /kʰ/
Affricate			c /ts/	ć /tɬ/
Spirant	voiceless	f /f/	þ /θ/			x /x/
	voiced	v /v/	ð /ð/			γ /ɣ/
Nonspirant	voiceless		s /s/	ś /ɬ/				ħ /ħ/	h /h/
	voiced		z /z/
Approximant			r /ɾ/		y /j/		ȝ /ʁ~ʕ/

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	i /i/	ü /y/	u /u/
Mid	e /e/	ö /ø/	o /o/
Open		a /a/

Morphology

Adjectives

Adjectives in -in decline as follows:

nthogin 'Netagin'

	Singulative	Collective	Plurative
Masculine	nthogin	nthoginu	nthogino
Feminine	nthogiye	nthoginu	nthogibh

Syntax

Modern Netagin is a VSO, split-ergative langiage.