Karyanic Languages
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Introduction
The Karyanic languages are a major language family on Yandras, with members covering most of the southeast of the Continent. Proto-Karyanic was spoken about four thousand years ago, probably in the central highlands of Yandras. Major modern Karyanic languages are Sarim, Qeth, and Khādho.
Phonology
Karyanic is reconstructed as having four series of plosives (aspirated voiceless, plain voiceless, plained voiced, and voiced aspirated) at labial, alveolar, velar and uvular points of articulation, with no reconstructable ɢ ɢʰ. Each point of articulation apart from uvular had a voiced nasal stop. There are also two reconstruced fricatives */s h/, and three approximants */w j ɥ/, as well as the rhotic /r/.
