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Protolanguage Phonology

The protolanguage has 25 phonemes: 6 vowels and 19 consonants.

Protolanguage Vowels

	front						central		back
high	i	i	-				ɨ	1	-				u	u
low-mid	-		ɛ	e	-		-		-		ɔ	o	-
low	-				a	a	-		-

Protolanguage Consonants

		labial				coronal						dorsal								guttural
nasal	voiced	m	m	-		n	n*	-				-		ŋ	n*	-		ɴ	n*	-
stop	aspirated	pʰ	ph	-		tʰ	th	-				-		kʰ	kh	-		qʰ	qh	-
	voiceless	p	p	-		t	t	-				-		k	k	-		q	q	ʔ	'
	voiced	b	b	-		d	d	-				-		g	g	-		ɢ	G	-
fricative	voiceless	-				-		s	s	-		-								h	h
rhotic	voiced	-				-		r	r	-		-								-
vocoid	voiced	-				l	l	-				-								-

Protolanguage Syllables

• C = any consonant
• Y = i or u
• V = ɛ, ɔ, a, or ɨ

The possible syllables are C(i)V(C|Y), YV(C|Y), and CY(C|Y).

Protolanguage Stress

The protolanguage stress is on ?

Sound Changes

At all stages, coda nasals tend to assimilate to the following non-glottal onsets.

1.	ph, th, kh, qh	>	pʰ, tʰ, kʰ, qʰ
2.	pʰ, tʰ, kʰ, qʰ	>	f, θ, x, χ
3.	t, d, s	>	t͡s, d͡z, ɕ	/	__ i
	k, g, x	>	t͡ɕ, d͡ʑ, ɕ	/	__ i
	f & θ & h	>	ç	/	__ i
4.	ɨ	>	u	/	i __ (C, #)
	ɨ	>	i	/	u __ (C, #)
5.	ɨ	>	u	/	__ Cu
	ɨ	>	i	/	__ Ci
6.	ni	>	ɲ	/	__ (V, Y)
	i	>	j	/	(p, b, m) __ (V, Y)
	ʔi, ʔu	>	j, w	/	__ V
7.	i & u	>	0	/	C __	if unstressed
8.	d͡z, d͡ʑ	>	z, ʑ
9.	k, g, x	>	c, ɟ, ç
10.	q, ɢ, χ	>	k, g, x
11.	p, t, k, q	>	pʰ, tʰ, kʰ, qʰ
12.	b, d, ɟ g, z, ʑ	>	p, t, c, k, s, ɕ	/	C[-Voc] __
	b, d, ɟ g, z, ʑ	>	p, t, c, k, s, ɕ	/	__ C[-Voc]
13.	p, t, c, k	>	p', t', c', k'	/	__ (C[+Obs], C[+Nas], #)
14.	ɨi, ɨu, ɛi, ɛu, au, ɔu	>	iː, uː, eː, au, aː, oː
15.	ʔ	>	0	/	V __ V
16.	fh, θh, sh, ɕh, çh, xh	>	fː, θː, sː, ɕː, çː, xː
17.	h	>	0	/	__ (C, #)

Morphosyntax

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