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{|class="wikitable"
{|class="wikitable"
|-
|-
!colspan="2"|  
!colspan="3"|  
! Labial
! Labial
! Dental
! Coronal
! Alveolar
! Palatal
! Postalveolar
! Velar
! Velar
! Glottal
! Glottal
|-
|-
!rowspan="3"| Stops and<br>affricates
!rowspan="4"| Stops
!rowspan="2"| Voiceless
! Unaspirated
| *p || *t || &nbsp; || *k || &nbsp;
|-
! Aspirated
| *p' || *t' || &nbsp;|| *k' || &nbsp;
|-
!rowspan="2"| Voiced
! Unaspirated
| *b || *d || &nbsp; || *g || &nbsp;
|-
! Aspirated
! Aspirated
| *p' || *t' || *c' || *č' || *k' || &nbsp;
| *b' || *d' || &nbsp; || *g' || &nbsp;
|-
!colspan="3"| Fricatives
| &nbsp; || *s || &nbsp; || &nbsp; || *h
|-
!colspan="3"| Nasals
| *m || *n || &nbsp; || *ng || &nbsp;
|-
|-
! Neutral
!colspan="3"| Laterals
| *p || *t || *c || *č || *k || &nbsp;
| &nbsp; || *l || &nbsp; || *l' || &nbsp;
|-
|-
! Voiced
!colspan="3"| Rhotics
| *b || *d || *dz || *dž || *g || &nbsp;
| &nbsp; || *r || &nbsp; || *r' || &nbsp;
|-
|-
!rowspan="2"| Fricatives
!colspan="3"| Semivowels
! Voiceless
| *w || &nbsp; || *j || *3 || &nbsp;
| &nbsp; || &nbsp; || *s || *š || &nbsp; || *h
|-
|-
! Voiced
|}
| &nbsp;|| &nbsp; || *z || *ž || &nbsp; || &nbsp;
 
The phoneme '''*l'''' probably was a velarized lateral /ł/; '''*r'''' probably was a uvular rhotic /ʀ/. '''*3''', which was rare, probably was an unrounded velar approximant /ɰ/. '''*h''', like '''*l'''', '''*r'''' and '''*3''' an outcome of [[Drummond's Law]], probably originally was velar, but all Alpianic languages that preserve it do so as a glottal fricative.
 
===Vowels===
 
{|class="wikitable"
|-
|-
!colspan="2"| Nasals
! &nbsp;
| *m || *n || &nbsp; || &nbsp; || *ng || &nbsp;
! Front
! Central
! Back
|-
|-
!colspan="2"| Laterals
! Close
| &nbsp; || *l || &nbsp; || &nbsp; || *l' || &nbsp;
| *i || &nbsp; || *u
|-
|-
!colspan="2"| Rhotics
! Mid
| &nbsp; || *r || &nbsp; || &nbsp; || *r' || &nbsp;
| *e || &nbsp; || *o
|-
|-
!colspan="2"| Semivowels
! Open
| *w || &nbsp; || &nbsp; || *j || &nbsp; || &nbsp;
| &nbsp; || *a || &nbsp;
|-
|-
|}
|}

Latest revision as of 06:27, 22 December 2019

Proto-Alpianic is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Alpianic languages, a branch of the Hesperic family, a family of diachronic conlangs by Jörg Rhiemeier.

Phonology

Consonants

  Labial Coronal Palatal Velar Glottal
Stops Voiceless Unaspirated *p *t   *k  
Aspirated *p' *t'   *k'  
Voiced Unaspirated *b *d   *g  
Aspirated *b' *d'   *g'  
Fricatives   *s     *h
Nasals *m *n   *ng  
Laterals   *l   *l'  
Rhotics   *r   *r'  
Semivowels *w   *j *3  

The phoneme *l' probably was a velarized lateral /ł/; *r' probably was a uvular rhotic /ʀ/. *3, which was rare, probably was an unrounded velar approximant /ɰ/. *h, like *l', *r' and *3 an outcome of Drummond's Law, probably originally was velar, but all Alpianic languages that preserve it do so as a glottal fricative.

Vowels

  Front Central Back
Close *i   *u
Mid *e   *o
Open   *a  
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