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| The '''Subumpamese languages''' are the languages spoken in the eleven states of [[Subumpam]]. They split off from the parent language, called the [[Gold language]], around 600 AD and continued to be spoken until the defeat of Subumpam in the [[Vegetable War]] of 2668 AD.
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| ===Phonology===
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| Overall the language is "soft" and not intimidating, like its neighbor [[Kava]], and to a lesser extent also like [[Pabappa]] and [[Poswa]]. It shifted all of its labialized consonants to pure labials, e.g. /kʷ/ > /p/, and then shifted its plain velars to palatals and sometimes on to coronals. Thus there are few dorsal consonants remaining in the language. However, the voiceless ejective /ḳ/ was immune to the second of these changes, and thus survived as a plain velar in the classical form of the language.
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| It is also unusual in that for most of its history, it had an /r/ but no /l/ sound, the opposite pattern to most og the languages around it. However, [[Babakiam]] had neither of these sounds (the 'r' in Poswa and Pabappa is a uvular approximant.)
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| ====Vowels====
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| /a e i o u ā ē ī ō ū/
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| Tones have been eliminated, but the ā tone survives as vowel length. Macrons are also used to tell diphthongs like '''ūi''' (/uj/) from simple sequences like '''ui''' (/ui/, often [wi]).
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| ;NOTE RECAST THIS AS SPLITTING OFF C 1200 AD OR EARLIER. USE EXACTLY THE SAME SOUND CHANGES.
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| ====Consonants====
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| /p b m f v w/ for labials; /t d n s z r c ʒ/ for dentals/alveolars; /č ǯ š ž j/ for postalveolars/palatals; and /k ŋ/ for the velars. The vowel /i/, be it short or long, palatalizes any alveolars before it, and therefore the palatal series can be considered to instead be /cj ʒj sj zj j/, reducing the number of consonants by four. Voiced stops and fricatives are fairly rare. In syllable-final position, the allowable sounds are /m n ŋ/, /t d n s z c ʒ/, and /k/. No vowels were deleted, so any final consonant in Subumpamese was a final consonant in Gold as well.
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Latest revision as of 04:13, 20 July 2022
This page has been wiped in preparation for the introduction of a new set of languages descended from proto-Dreamlandic.
