Antagg
| Antagg | |
| Period | c. -1500 YP. evolved into Mohudza and later Móyay |
| Spoken in | Upper Bwimbai valley |
| Total speakers | unknown |
| Writing system | unknown |
| Classification | Macro-Edastean Talo-Edastean Antagg |
| Typology | |
| Basic word order | unknown |
| Morphology | unknown |
| Alignment | unknown |
| Credits | |
| Created by | Salmoneus |
Antagg (also known as Andagg) is a Talo-Edastean language spoken at the upper Bwimbai valley in c. -1500 YP.
History & Context
Antagg is spoken by an Antagg state that appeared at c. -1900 YP. It's height is at -1700, then eventually disintegrated by the Meshi empire at -1600~-1000 YP.
The Mohudza, the descendants of the Antagg, established two empires in c. -900. One, of settled Mohudza, on the Bwimbai, and another, of nomadised Mohudza, in the Eiwəl Gourun, both empires often conflicts with each other. at c. -500 YP, (with the help of the Habeo and the Ayčalixuq), the Damak rebelled againt the nomadic empire, and the conflict with the settled empire exhausted both people. The nomadic empire of the Habeo empire then conquered the both Mohudzan empires 100 years later.
Linguistic Properties
Antagg have received little scholarly attention, perhaps due to their marginal position in Ndak times. Thus, It's linguistic properties remains unknown.
Some of Antaggic words had loaned into some Ndok Aisô dialects, especially the northen dialect.
Sound Changes from Proto-Talo-Edastean
Studies of Antagg texts allow us to tentatively reconstruct the following sound changes between Proto-Talo-Edastean and the Antagg language of c. -1700 YP.
1. Nasals were lost word-finally.
2. Vowel syncope. The exact conditions are not well understood, but it appears to have affected only unstressed monophthongs, and applied in the following environments:
word-finally after a single consonant between */s/ and another consonant. 3. Loss of coda nasals, with compensatory vowel lengthening. This appears to have happened in stressed and final syllables.
4. Stops became unvoiced between a nasal and a stressed vowel.
5. */ɴ/ lenited to /h/, certainly word-initially and probably in all environments.
6. */x xʷ/ fortified to /k kʷ/, certainly after */s/ and probably in all environments.
7. Vowel shift: */a e i o u ai au/ became /a ɛ e ɔ o i u/ in unstressed syllables. Remaining */au/ (and probably also */ai/) became /aː/ in at least some environments.
8. Labialised consonants merged with labials, and remaining uvulars merged with velars.
9. */ts/ lenited to /s/.
10. */l/ was deleted before another consonant.
11. */w/ was deleted after labials, before /u/ and probably before /o/; it merged with */j/ (presumably via */ɥ/) in some environments, apparently before /i e/.
12. */ŋ/ merged with /n/, apparently in all environments.
13. Other changes: /s/ assimilated in voicing to an adjacent obstruent; */r/ became a tap /ɾ/; /ɔ/ may have undergone a shift but remained a distinct phoneme.