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'''Proto-Albic''' is the reconstructed common ancestor of the [[Albic]] languages; it is assumed to have been spoken in southern Britain between 2000 and 1500 BC. | '''Proto-Albic''' is the reconstructed common ancestor of the [[Albic]] languages; it is assumed to have been spoken in southern Britain between 2000 and 1500 BC. | ||
The language can be reconstructed very well from the attested dialects of [[Old Albic]] and their descendants. | |||
==Phonology== | |||
===Consonants=== | |||
Proto-Albic is reconstructed with 19 consonant phonemes. | |||
{|class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! || Labial || Coronal || Dorsal || Laryngeal | |||
|- | |||
! Nasals | |||
| *m || *n || *ng || | |||
|- | |||
! Voiced stops | |||
| *b || *d || *g || | |||
|- | |||
! Neutral stops | |||
| *p || *t || *k || | |||
|- | |||
! Aspirated stops | |||
| *p' || *t' || *k' || | |||
|- | |||
! Fricatives | |||
| || *s || || *h | |||
|- | |||
! Liquids and semivowels | |||
| *w || *l *r || *j || *3 | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
As usual with protolanguages, the exact phonetic values of these sounds are uncertain. Especially the sound '''*3''' is somewhat mysterious, but the best guess is that it was a voiced glottal or pharyngeal fricative or approximant. The phonotactic behaviour at any rate shows that it had a high degree of sonority, in a class with the liquids and semivowels. | |||
===Vowels=== | |||
The vowel inventory of Proto-Albic consists of only three vowels. | |||
{|class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! || Front || Central || Back | |||
|- | |||
! Close | |||
| *i || || *u | |||
|- | |||
! Open | |||
| || *a || | |||
|- | |||
|} | |||
[[Category:Albic languages]] | [[Category:Albic languages]] | ||
[[Category:Diachronic conlangs]] | [[Category:Diachronic conlangs]] | ||
[[Category:Protolanguages]] | [[Category:Protolanguages]] | ||
Revision as of 13:02, 30 January 2015
| Proto-Albic | |
| Spoken in: | British Isles |
| Timeline/Universe: | League of Lost Languages |
| Total speakers: | extinct (evolved into various daughter languages) |
| Genealogical classification: | Hesperic
|
| Basic word order: | VSO |
| Morphological type: | agglutinating |
| Morphosyntactic alignment: | active-stative |
| Created by: | |
| Jörg Rhiemeier | 2001- |
Proto-Albic is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Albic languages; it is assumed to have been spoken in southern Britain between 2000 and 1500 BC.
The language can be reconstructed very well from the attested dialects of Old Albic and their descendants.
Phonology
Consonants
Proto-Albic is reconstructed with 19 consonant phonemes.
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Laryngeal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | *m | *n | *ng | |
| Voiced stops | *b | *d | *g | |
| Neutral stops | *p | *t | *k | |
| Aspirated stops | *p' | *t' | *k' | |
| Fricatives | *s | *h | ||
| Liquids and semivowels | *w | *l *r | *j | *3 |
As usual with protolanguages, the exact phonetic values of these sounds are uncertain. Especially the sound *3 is somewhat mysterious, but the best guess is that it was a voiced glottal or pharyngeal fricative or approximant. The phonotactic behaviour at any rate shows that it had a high degree of sonority, in a class with the liquids and semivowels.
Vowels
The vowel inventory of Proto-Albic consists of only three vowels.
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | *i | *u | |
| Open | *a |
