Netagin

In the Unbegotten timeline, Netagin is a classical language of Edna's conworld, belonging to the Idavic language family. Netagin has influenced many other languages such as Ouřefr and Shalaian. Netagin is intended to be optimized for writing piyyutim: like Hebrew, Netagin has final stress and stressed suffixes, so that it is natural to rhyme by having the last syllables the same like in Jewish piyyutim. It does not, however, have a Semitic-style consonantal root system.

It's inspired by Hebrew, Old English, Welsh, Czech, and Windermere.

Gibberish

Hazaj meter:
Tĭgoaγ ṡatlej ṙĭ-ċaṅṅevear,
Cădob pehlaṫ ă-vahmavear,
Ăle'ad teo pă-nojjanneγ,
Hĭpeore ġuj vĭto ṡotneγ.

Shakhar Avakeshkha:
Taceoṅ pĭċie taceoṅ
Paṙuj pălenoac hoj,
Eci ṡăcov leṫiγ
Absan tăpien lahoj.

Yigdal meter:
Peslaṅ mĭgeptac ḋah mĭnej ve'oach,
Mireaṫ ċăpa coriγ ă-ruze'oach.
Dolper ăniv nelieγ tăja tożie,
Boch niem să pacaviṅ lĭγa peżie.

Phonology

Consonants

Conservative

p b t d ṫ ḋ ċ ġ k g ' s ṡ z ż x h m n ṅ γ l r ṙ v j /p b t d c ɟ tʃ dʒ k g ʔ s ʃ z ʒ x h m n ŋ l r (czech ř) w j/

Android orthography: p b t d ť ď č đ k g ' s s š z ž x h m n ň γ l r ř v j

Vowels

Less conservative; vowels in stressed syllables are lengthened, unstressed vowels reduced when historically short

a e i o ea oa eo ie ă ĭ /a e i o eə oə~u ø ɪ ə ɨ~ɪ/

Russian/Hebrew style alternation between pretonic a and propretonic ə

Diachronics:

In stressed syllables: a e i u ā ē ī ū > a ea e o oa ie i eo usually.

In pretonic syllables: a o i e > a a e e; in propretonic syllables: a o i e > ă ă ĭ ĭ

Stress

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

Penult long vowels + every other stress gives the language a distinctive "Scotch snap" rhythm.

Phonotactics

no initial clusters, max cluster length 2

cluster consonants can be arbitrary as long as voice assimilated

Possible vowel final vowels: /ɪ, e, a, eə, oə, i, ø/ (cf TibH /ɔ, ɛ, e, o, i, u/)

Vowel reduction

Pretonic to propretonic: (Most commonly occuring type) a > ă, e > ĭ.

Tonic to pretonic: *a, *o > a; *e > e; *i > ĭ

Morphology

Nouns

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

Netagin case affixes are regular:

• masculine nominative -0, -oa; genitive -a, -oach
• feminine nominative -e/-ie, -ea/-i, genitive -ie, -each/-iech
• neuter nominative -0, -eγ, genitive -e, -iγ

Stem changes in the genitive and plural can get pretty bad...

ne = Lushootseed ti

pe = Lushootseed kwi

Syntax

Borrow from Lushootseed syntax: predicate first