Proto-Alhianic: Difference between revisions
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Asterisks are used as a conventional mark of reconstructed words, such as *cʰälli, *kʰan, or *yüḍḍöṇ. | Asterisks are used as a conventional mark of reconstructed words, such as *cʰälli, *kʰan, or *yüḍḍöṇ. | ||
== Phonology == | |||
The features most agreed upon in Proto-Alhayic reconstructions include: | |||
* 3 series of stops reconstructed as ejective, aspirated, and voiced stops | |||
* a fricative series whose consonants correspond equally to the stops | |||
* a nasal series, including l, which is not nasal but corresponds to the alveolar nasal | |||
* 3 approximants, including the rhotic r, which is of uncertain quality but was most likely an alveolar tap | |||
* an 8-vowel system that was split among front-back harmony (neutral vowels: i, e; front vowels: ü, ö, ä; back vowels: u, o, a) | |||
* a CV(C) syllable structure | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|+ Consonants | |||
|- | |||
! Header text !! Header text !! Labial !! Dental !! Alveolar !! Retroflex !! Palatal !! Velar !! Glottal | |||
|- | |||
| Example || Example || p' || t' || c' || ṭ' || ć' || k' || ʔ | |||
|- | |||
| Example || Example || pʰ || tʰ || cʰ || ṭʰ || ćʰ || kʰ || ʔʰ | |||
|- | |||
| Example || Example || b || d || z || ḍ || j || g || ʔ͉ | |||
|- | |||
| Example || Example || f || θ || s || ṣ || ś || x || h | |||
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| Example || Example || m || n || l || ṇ || ñ || ŋ || | |||
|- | |||
| Example || Example || w || r || || || y || || | |||
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