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|setting = [[Verse:Tricin]], [[Verse:CF Tricin]]

In Tricin, '''Netagin''' (English: net-ə-GHEEN; natively ''ne Nătahin'' [nɛː nətɐːˈɦiːːn]; [[Nurian]]: ''xi Nteahem''; [[Naeng]]: ''fi brits Intăgin''; [[Eevo]]: ''a łynǿñ Yntyjín'') is a major [[Bjeheond]]ian language and an isolate within the [[Idavic languages|Idavic]] language family. It is native to [[Verse:Tricin/Tumhan|Tumhan]] (Netagin: ''Tumhan'' /tʉmˈɦan/). Classical Netagin has influenced [[Naeng]], [[Nurian]] and [[Ksieh]]. Netagin is intended to be optimized for writing poems in Hebrew piyyut meters (without being a Hebrew giblang): like Hebrew, Netagin has triconsonantal morphology, final stress and stressed suffixes, so that it is natural to rhyme by having the last syllables the same like in Jewish piyyutim. It tends to be verb-initial and head-initial like Hebrew, and its morphosyntactic alignment is split-S and predicate-first with some Austronesian elements. Netagin is the most grammatically conservative extant branch of Idavic, because it has preserved Proto-Idavic triconsonantal morphology and morphosyntax. Despite being a head-initial language like most Talman languages including [[Naeng]] and [[Talmic languages]], as well as Hebrew and Irish, Classical Netagin grammar is meant to have some alien features even to speakers of these languages. Hebrew is a heavy inspiration for the diachronics, however (except postvocalic lenition).

 

This article describes Classical Netagin which is used for special effect in modern times, e.g. in classical Netagin music and poetry. The standard variety today is [[Šinax Netagin]], spoken in Bjeheond's capital Șinach (''Šinax'') and in Cualuav's Andaegor, though there are many other mutually unintelligible Netagin varieties.

This is the seventh version of Netagin. Its aesthetic is inspired by Hebrew, Maltese, Czech/Slovak, Middle Vietnamese and [[Naeng]]. Its morphology is inspired by Semitic, its morphosyntax by Lushootseed and Austronesian, and its motion verbs by Slavic.

! |Dental

! | Alveolar

|colspan=4|'''n''' /n̪~n~ɳ~ɲ/

|colspan=2|'''t''' /t~ʈ/

|colspan=2|'''d''' /d~ɖ/

|'''š''' /ɕ/

|'''ž''' /ʑ/

|'''č''' /t͡ɕ/

cluster consonants can be arbitrary as long as voice assimilated

Netagin script is an abugida developed from the Ancient Gwnax script. Before vowel markings were codified, some Netagin writings used the consonant letters as an abjad with letters for ''v j q h'' used as matres lectionis.

 

Vowel signs shouldn't rely on the number of dots. I dislike drawing dots lol, I'm looking at you, segol

:'''''"Qaj, laršip ne dáqer rysohe qalok." baruc ne qama.'''''

:/ʔaj lɐr'ʃip nɛ 'daʔɛr rɨso'ɦɛ ʔɐ'lok ba'ruts nɛə ʔɐma/

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| ''mur'''xil''''' 'I walk' || ''mur'''xib'''''  || ''mur'' || ''mur'''šů''''' || ''mur'''šiem''''' || ''mur'''ni''''' || ''mur'''o'''''

| '''''l'''ytlal-0'' 's/he knows me' || '''''b'''ytlal-0'' || '''''q'''ytlal-0'' || '''''ť'''itlal-0'' || '''''m'''ytlal-0'' || '''''d'''ytlăl'''o''''' || '''''q'''ytlăl'''o'''''

:''Lečar ne qama.'' = Mother is at home.

:''(Qu) lečar ve qama?'' = Is Mother at home?  

:''- (Qu) lečar vea qama? - Qaj/Lečar.'' = - Is Mother at home? - Yes.

Jos ve qama? = Where is Mother?

 

Jal ve miešda? = What (lit. Who) is your name?

The h-possessive ("X has a Y") is formed with the existence construction, applied to the genitive phrase "X's Y". So to say "I have a book" one literally says "There is a book of mine":

The b-possessive ("X belongs to Y" etc.): The noun ''gáqem'' can be used in a possessive construction:

:''nea páles '''hea''' '''s'''admurxil'' - the cake that I made

:''nea jove '''hea''' qytymlalxil (*sytymlalxil) ne qeb''

The ''pyšme vean'' "such that" + resumptive pronoun construction is always available in late Classical Netagin. The applicative has been lost in Modern Netagin vernaculars, which instead use the gap strategy, like Southeast Asian languages. Internally headed relative clauses are restricted to poetry, even in Classical Netagin.

Netagin also has deranked relative clauses, which uses possessed verbal nouns and mirror similar constructions in Lushootseed (cf. English ''the weapon of your choosing''). The possessor of such a verbal noun is always the patient. This construction must be used exactly when the subject is the head.

Classical Netagin poetry uses meters similar to Hebrew piyyut meters. For example, the marnin aka hazaj meter is SLLLSLLL, where S must be an open syllable with a reduced vowel (underlyingly either an ''ă'' /ə/ or an ''y'' /ɨ/) and L is any heavy syllable (i.e. having a non-reduced vowel). Poetry from the Classical Netagin era is replete with allusions to older Classical Netagin literature (much like how Hebrew piyyutim use Tanakh allusions and Classical Chinese literature allude to older Classical Chinese works); there are some poems that are entirely "Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra".

=== A piyyut ===