The protolanguage has only 9 phonemes: 1 vowel and 8 consonants.
| front | central | back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| high | - | - | - | |||
| mid | - | ə | *e | - | ||
| low | - | - | - | |||
| labial | coronal | dorsal | guttural | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| stop | voiceless | p | *p | - | t | *t | - | - | k | *k | - | - | |||||||
| nasal | voiced | - | n | *n | - | - | - | ||||||||||||
| fricative | voiceless | - | - | - | h | *h | |||||||||||||
| vocoid | voiced | - | - | j | *y | - | w | *w | ʁ | *r | - | ||||||||
| * | j, w, ʁ | > | i, u, ɑ | / | __ (p, t, k, n, h, #) | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| * | j, w, ʁ | > | i, u, ɑ | / | __ (j, w, ʁ) | |
| * | p, t, k | > | b, d, g | / | (V, n) __ (V, j, w, ʁ) | |
| * | ph, th, kh | > | f, s, χ | |||
| * | hf, hs, hχ | > | f:, s:, χ: | |||
| hp, ht, hk | > | p:, t:, k: | ||||
| * | pp, tt, kk | > | p:, t:, k: | |||
| * | p:, t:, k: | > | p, t, k | / | (C, #) __ | ? |
| * | n | > | m | / | __ (p, b) | |
| n | > | ŋ | / | __ (k, g) | ||
| * | əi, əu, əɑ | > | ei, ou, ɑ: | |||
| * | ə | > | ɛ | |||
| * | ɛ | > | ə | / | (k, g, χ) __ | ? |
| * | ji, wu | > | i:, u: | / | (C, #) __ | ? |
| * | t:j, tj, dj | > | t:͡ʃ, t͡ʃ, d͡ʒ | |||
| s:j, sj | > | ʃ:, ʃ | ||||
| hj, hw, hR | > | ʃ, f, χ | ||||
| nj, nw, nR | > | ɲ, m, ŋ | ||||
| * | ei, ou, ɑ: | > | e:, o:, a: | ? | ||
| ɛɛ & əɛ | > | a: | ??? | |||
page started: 2013.Nov.22 Fri
current date: 2013.Nov.25 Mon
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