Proto-Rajo-Faraneit

Proto-Rajo-Faraneit
Pronounced:	own name unknown, extinct
Timeline and Universe:	theoretically this universe, future
Species:	Humanoid
Spoken:	Measceineafh
Total speakers:	extinct
Writing system:	Romanization
Genealogy:	None, proto-language
Typology
Morphological type:	Isolating
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order:	VSO and SVO
Credits
Creator:	Humancadaver101 aka Schwhatever aka Buckfush530
Created:	July 2007

Proto-Rajo-Faraneit (PRF) is the language from which all other Rajo-Faraneih Languages derive. This includes Faraneit, Rajat, Fórong, Kelsiut, Hana and several others. This language is quite nebulous and ill-defined in places due to a highly incomplete historical and linguistic record.

Phonology

	Bilabial	Labio-Dental	Non-Siblant Alveolar	Siblant Alveolar	Retroflex	Velar	Uvular
Stop	p  b		t  d			k	q
Affricate		pf  bv	tθ	ts
Nasal	m		n
Fricative		f  v	θ	s		x
Approximants and Trills			r		ɻ
Lateral Flap			l		ɭ

• NOTE: The quality of the open back unrounded vowel is highly disputed. Reliance on the Northern and Eastern Branches of Proto-Rajo-Faraneit suggests it had a quality more central than this image portrays. Alternatively, the evolution of this phoneme within the Western and Southern Branches suggests the opposite, a phoneme as securely central as the rest. Outside of a few dissenters, the majority of linguists accept the theory that it held a gradient value, being more central within the populations that later developed the two major branches, and being less so in the populations that later developed the other two branches. Thus, this image attempts to present a balanced, dialect-neutral version.

• /xi/ = [çi]
• /si/ = [ʃi]
• VX(V) = VY(V), where X is any unvoiced phoneme without a voiced counterpart and Y is the corresponding voiced phone
  • With the exception of /k q/ which never become [g ɢ] under any circumstance.
• /'e 'o 'æ/ = [e: o: æ:]
• unstressed /i u ɛ ɑ/ = [ɪ ʊ ə ɒ]
• V/i/V, V/u/V = V[j]V, V[w]V
• /#'i/, /#'u/ = [ji], [wu]
• stressed /p b t d k q/ are aspirated

Conjugation

There are five tenses in PRF, narrative past, past, simple present, progressive, and future. All of these except the simple present rely on auxilaries to perform conjugation. These participles conjugate for the person of the subject, but not the number.

	Narrative Past	Simple Past	Progressive Present	Future
First Person	uz'iθ	ɑuz'iɑi	ez'iɑi	iz'iɑi
Second Person	uz'ɛθ	ɑuz'ɛ	ez'ɛ	iz'iɑ
Third Person	uz'io	ɑuz'io	ez'io	iz'io

Root List

Proto-Rajo-Faraneit Root List