Proto-Ōšqʷiť

Proto-Ōšqʷiť ???
Spoken in:	Eurasia?
Timeline/Universe:	Earth, alternate universe
Total speakers:	???
Genealogical classification:	Proto-Ōšqʷiť
Basic word order:	??? but reconstructed as SOV
Morphological type:	Inflecting
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative-Accusative
Created by:
maailmaniag	June 14th 2008

Proto-Ōšqʷiť (/o:ʃqʷiθ/) is the reconstructed form of the language spoken by the ancient people of Eurasia (alternate universe). Because this is a reconstructed form of the language, there are no traces of writing, etc. of the language, and therefore no lexical item, point of syntax, or morphological paradigm is guaranteed to be 100% accurate, but instead, an approximation of how the language actually was spoken thousands of years ago (approximately 6,000-8,000 BC)

Phonology

This is the reconstructed phonology of Proto-Ōšqʷiť, which was put together via the comparative method, comparing the sound systems (or approximate sound systems, in the case of dead branches) or all 12 established branches of the Ōšqʷiť family.

Consonants

Proto-Ōšqʷiť has a complex system of consonants, in that there are 3 phonemic series of nearly all the sounds: plain, palatized, and labialized. This triples the amount of consonants that many of its descendants have, but are included in the reconstruction because there are still traces of this 3-way distinction in all of the 12 branches of descendants (however, the distinction may have been lost in various languages of the branches over time). Additionally, a 3-way distinction in stops is also reconstructed, being voiced, voiceless, and voiceless aspirated.

Consonants
	Bilabial		Labiodent.		Alveolar		Post-alv.		Velar		Uvular		Glottal
Nasal	plain	m mʷ				n nʷ			ŋ ŋʷ
	palatized	mʲ				nʲ			ŋʲ		Plosive	p	b			t	d					c	g
Fricative			f	v	s	z	š	ž			ch		h
Affricate					ts	dz	č	ğ
Trill									ř
Flap					r
Lateral Approximant					l