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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 [[Tapilula]], around 600 AD and continued to be spoken until the defeat of Subumpam in the [[Vegetable War]] of 2668 AD.
 
 
 
 
 
 
===Phonology===
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. 
 
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.)
 
====Vowels====
/a e i o u ā ē ī ō ū/
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]).
 
;NOTE RECAST THIS AS SPLITTING OFF C 1200 AD OR EARLIER. USE EXACTLY THE SAME SOUND CHANGES.
 
====Consonants====
/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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