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| Merar was a nation of people who had immigrated from [[Babakiam|Paba]] to [[Subumpam]] during the late stages of the [[Vegetable War]] after they had pushed the battlefronts westward out of Paba. After the war they stayed in Subumpam and married Subumpamese women. THey set up a new government stating that only military officers were allowed to hold government posts. | | Merar was a nation of people who had immigrated from [[Babakiam|Paba]] to [[Subumpam]] during the late stages of the [[Vegetable War]] after they had pushed the battlefronts westward out of Paba. After the war they stayed in Subumpam and married Subumpamese women. THey set up a new government stating that only military officers were allowed to hold government posts. |
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| Some Tarpabaps may have also spoken [[Paleo-Pabappa]].
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| ==Language== | | ==Language== |
| The Merar language was also known as '''Tarpabappa'''. It was identical to standard Pabappa at the time of the war; the language had not yet dropped the intervocalic non-labial voiced fricatives /ð z g/, which meant that the number of syllables in Merar words was usually the same as their ancestral forms in the [[Gold language]]. After the split, Pabappa underwent this change and Merar did not, leading to an unusually early loss of mutual intelligibility between the two languages. Thus, what became of Merar resembled later Pabappa very little. | | The Merar language was also known as '''Tarpabappa'''. |
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| Common Central [[Subumpam]]ese (i.e. Bipabumese) remained the common language of the Subumpamese people after the conquest. Later on, many Merar people learned [[Khulls]], [[Pabappa]], or both; and thus Tarpabappa monolinguality came to be associated only with people who were ethnically Merar but locked out of access to the ruling class and its power.
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| ===Phonology===
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| ====Consonants====
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| Merar had a fairly large consonant inventory, but was unusual in that it lacked both /l/ and /r/ sounds. However, there was a distinction between a true /w/ and a pharyngealized rounded approximant, often spelled ''ʕʷ'', but which in foreign words is often transliterated ''r''. However, this sound had begun to lose both its rounding and its pharyngealization early on, and some speakers did not distinguish it from the otherwise rare sound /v/.
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| Bilabials: p ṗ m f v w
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| Alveolars: t d n s z dʰ
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| Rounded alveolars: tʷ dʷ nʷ
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| Palataloids: š ž y
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| Velars: k ḳ ŋ h g
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| Postvelars: ħ ʕ
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| The unusual voiced aspirate ''dʰ'' arises from the consonant cluster /hd/ in the [[Gold language]]; there was no corresponding bʰ or ġʰ because in the Gold language, both of those stops were restricted to word-initial position and to unstressed syllables directly following a long vowel, which meant that there could not be an /h/.
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| The voiced stop '' d '' was pronounced as a fricative, [ ð], between vowels.
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| The vowel system was the same as Gold.
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| The language divides into East and West branches, with the East branch covering occupied [[Thaoa]] and the West branch [[Subumpam]]. The Subumpamese adult male population was almost eliminated, so the surviving Subumpamese language was the speech of women. Since both the Tarpabaps and the Subumpamese had been primarily male-led, Subumpamese fell out of use. Thaoa's population survived mostly intact, but their language was also suppressed in its homeland and survived only as [[Palli]] and [[Sakhi]], both spoken outside Thaoa;s original honme territory/.
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| ==Proto-Merar (2674 AD) to Western Tarpabappa==
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| This language replaced all of the [[Subumpamese languages]].
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| Bilabials: p ṗ m f v w
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| Alveolars: t d n s z dʰ
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| Rounded alveolars: tʷ dʷ nʷ
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| Palataloids: š ž y
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| Velars: k ḳ ŋ h g
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| Postvelars: ħ ʕ
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| #The labialized alveolars ''tʷ dʷ nʷ'' shifted to '''kʷ ġʷ m'''.
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| #The voiced alveolar stop ''d'' shifted to '''ð''' between vowels. Then ''dʰ'' became '''d'''.
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| #The ejectives ''ṗ ḳ'' shifted to '''b q'''.
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| ==Proto-Merar (2674 AD) to Eastern Tarpabappa==
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| This language is the superstratum of [[Thaoa]].
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| Bilabials: p ṗ m f v w
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| Alveolars: t d n s z dʰ
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| Rounded alveolars: tʷ dʷ nʷ
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| Palataloids: š ž y
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| Velars: k ḳ ŋ h g
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| Postvelars: ħ ʕ
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| #The voiced stop ''d'' shifted to '''l'''. Then ''dʰ'' shifted to '''d'''. <sup>?</sup>
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| #The velar fricative ''h'' came to be spelled '''x'''.
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| ==History==
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| :''see [http://www.frathwiki.com/index.php?title=Merar&oldid=118619#History here].''
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| Thaoa's consoinant inventory in 2674 AD was
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| Labials: pʰ p b m f v w
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| Alveolars: tʰ t d n s z l
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| Palataloids: č ǯ ň y
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| Velars: kʰ k ŋ x g
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| Postvelars: qʰ q h
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| Eastern SUbumpamese was
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| Bilabials: p b m f
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| Alveolars: t d n s l c ʒ
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| Palataloids: č ǯ ň š ž y
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| Velars: k ŋ
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| Postvelars: q h
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| ==Notes== | | ==Notes== |
- Not to be confused with Meromo.
Merar was the language of Paba's military caste, which consisted mostly of Tarpabaps and other ethnic minorities.
Merar was a nation of people who had immigrated from Paba to Subumpam during the late stages of the Vegetable War after they had pushed the battlefronts westward out of Paba. After the war they stayed in Subumpam and married Subumpamese women. THey set up a new government stating that only military officers were allowed to hold government posts.
This is a branch of Paleo-Pabappa.
Language
The Merar language was also known as Tarpabappa.
Notes
