Verse:Hmøøh/Talma/Literature

Netagin is a triconsonantal language inspired by Biblical Hebrew, spoken in Western Cuadhlabh. This page describes Ancient Netagin.

Todo

final -ʔ to block initial seimhiu

Roots

• n-t-g: ???
• r-s-d: study
• z-ʔ-r: go
• k-d-d: fly
• w-n-š: love

Phonology

Ancient Netagin

Ancient Netagin had the following consonants:

m n ŋ t tˁ k ʔ b d g f s ts ɬ tɬ ʃ ħ h z ʕ w r j

⟨m n ŋ t ṭ c ʔ b d g f s ts ś tś š ħ h z ȝ w r y⟩

The following vowels were used:

i iː u uː
a aː oː
aj aw

⟨i ī u ū a ā ō ay aw⟩

Old Netagin

Begadkefat: /t tˁ k b d g/ > /θ θˁ x v ð ɣ/ after a V

Vowels go through Tiberian Hebrew-ish changes

Morphology

Nouns

Vowel-reducing paradigms

The largest class of vowel-reducing nouns have á or é between the first and second radicals that reduces to a/e (harmonizing with the frontness of following vowel; i after a y) when a suffix is added.

"Crawling-up" nouns

The "crawling-up" (Netagin: mittzúchábh) nouns underlyingly end in a consonant cluster. In the singular oblique cases the stem is turned into a CaCC (if the bare form is CeCaC, CiCC for CéCaC and CoCC for CóCaC) form, and the dual and plural turn the stem into (CaCáC, CeCáC and CoCáC).

Nouns ending in geminated consonants

These nouns may take sound case/number suffixes, or get the broken plural as a CVCC/CVnC stem.

-eh

In nouns ending in -eh, the -eh is deleted before a case ending.

Pronouns

	First person			Second person			Third person
	Singular	Dual	Plural	Singular	Dual	Plural	Singular	Dual	Plural
Independent	ʔáctih	ʔáccū	ʔáccāʔ	ʔánnih	ʔánnū	ʔánnāʔ	hih	hínnū	hínnāʔ
Clitic	-ti	-cū	-cāʔ	-ni	-nū	-nāʔ	-hi	-hū	-hāʔ