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's inspired by Hebrew, Old English, Welsh, Czech, and Windermere.
Gibberish
Hazaj meter:
Tĭgoaγ ṡatlej ṙĭ-ċaṅṅevear,
Kădob pehlaṫ ă-vahmavear,
Ăle'ad teo pă-nojjanneγ,
Hĭpeore ġuj vĭto ṡotneγ.
Shakhar Avakeshkha:
Takeoṅ pĭċie takeoṅ
Paṙuj pălenoak hoj,
Eki ṡăkov leṫiγ
Absan tăpien lahoj.
Yigdal meter:
Peslaṅ mĭgeptak ḋah mĭnej ve'oax,
Mireaṫ ċăpa koriγ ă-ruze'oax.
Dolper ăniv nelieγ tăja tożie,
Box niem să pakaviṅ lĭγa peżie.
Phonology
Consonants
Conservative
p b t d ṫ ḋ ċ ġ k g ' s ṡ z ż x h m n 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) v j/
Android orthography: p b t d ť ď č đ k g ' s š z ž x h m n 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.
Tone? à á ạ ả (older pitch accent + voicing split)
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 2 genders (masculine, feminine) 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
In a genitive phrase, only the last noun tskes the genitive.
Stem changes in the genitive and plural can get pretty bad...: tălese 'feminine'
ne, sg.f. nea = Lushootseed ti, tsi
pa, sg.f. poa = Lushootseed kʷi, kʷsi
Verbs
| Binyan | Imperfective | Perfective | Active Participle |
Passive Participle |
Verbnoun |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1å2a3 | -i12a3 | 1ö2e3 | 1e2o3 | 1å2e3, 1ă2i3 |
| 2 | 1a2ö3 | -a12u3 | 1å2i3 | 1å2u3 | 1å2å3 |
| 3 | ʔa12i13 | -å12e3 | bi11u2å3 | þi11u2å3 | ʔa12o3 |
| 4 | ʔa1å2e3 | -ă1e2u3 | ba12a3 | þa12å3 | ʔa12a3ö |
| 5 | þa12u3 | -uþ1å2e3 | buþ1å2o3 | þuþ1å2o3 | þa12ö3ö |
| 6 | ʔi1:å2a3 | -u1:e2o3 | bu1:e2o3 | þu1:e2o3 | ʔu1:å2e3 |
| 7 | ʔiþþă1å2o3 | -uþþă1å2e3 | buþþă1å2o3 | þuþþă1å2o3 | þiþþă1å2ī3 |
| 8 | ʔi21å2e3 | -i21e2o3 | bu21å2o3 | þu21å2o3 | ʔu21å2e3 |
| 9 | 1as2o3 | -u1is2o3 | bu1as2o3 | þu1as2o3 | þu1as2e3 |
| 10 | 1ă2å2a3 | -i12å2o3 | bu12å2o3 | þu12å2o3 | þu12å2e3 |
| 11 | 1ă2å2e3 | -i12e2o3 | bu12e2o3 | þu12e2o3 | þi12å2e3 |
| 12 | 1i31a2o3 | -i1i31e2o3 | bu1i31å2o3 | þu1i31å2o3 | 1i31å2e3 |
Syntax
Borrow from Lushootseed syntax: predicate first