Natish language

Natish
Pärnät
Pronunciation	/pɑɹnɑt/
Native to	Kianat
Ethnicity	Natish
Language family	Mablani Rlatan Imperial Rlatan West Rlatan Central Rlatan Natish
Writing system	Rlatan Script

Natish is a Mablani language located in the center of what used to be the Rlatan Empire.

Phonology

Natish phonology is as follows, with romanization in parenthesis. Asterisks mark marginal phonemes.

Bilabial

Labio- dental

Alveolar

Palatal

Labio- velar

Velar

Glottal

Nasal

m (m)

n (n)

ŋ (ń)*

Palatized Nasal

mʲ (m')

ŋʲ (ń')*

Plosive

p (p)

b (b)

t (t)

d (d)

k (k)

Palatized Plosive

pʲ (p')

bʲ (b')

tʲ (t')

dʲ (d')

kʲ (k')

Fricative

s (s)

z (z)

h (h)

Palatized Fricative

sʲ (s')

zʲ (z')

Approximant

ʋ (v)*

ɹ (r)

j (j)

ʍ (ẃ)

w (w)

Palatized Approximant

ʋʲ (v')*

ɹʲ (r')

ʍʲ (ẃ')

wʲ (w')

	Front		Near- front		Central		Near-back		Back
Close	i (i)									u (u)
Near-close			ɪ (í)					ʊ (ú)
Close-mid	e (e)									o (o)
Mid					ə (ă)
Open-mid	ɛ (é)								ʌ (ó)*
Open	a (a)	ɶ (œ)							ɑ (ä)

Grammar

Natish is an agglutinative language with noun incorporation. Like other Mablani language, there are four persons for pronouns. However, there are several cases unique to Rlatan languages that Natish has, such as the locative and illative cases. Unlike other Mablani languages, the plural case is at the start of the word instead of the end.