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| '''čh''' [t͡ʃʰ] | | '''čh''' [t͡ʃʰ] | ||
| '''ćh''' [t͡ɕʰ] | | '''ćh''' [t͡sʲʰ ~ t͡ɕʰ] | ||
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| '''č''' [t͡ʃ] | | '''č''' [t͡ʃ] | ||
| '''ć''' [t͡ɕ] | | '''ć''' [t͡sʲ ~ t͡ɕ] | ||
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| '''ǧ''' [d͡ʒ] | | '''ǧ''' [d͡ʒ] | ||
| '''ǵ''' [d͡ʑ] | | '''ǵ''' [d͡zʲ ~ d͡ʑ] | ||
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| '''r'''' [rʲ] '''l'''' [ʎ] | | '''r'''' [rʲ] '''l'''' [lʲ ~ʎ] | ||
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Revision as of 08:10, 29 September 2016
Proto-Phwaim is a fictional language by Polka Dot. Proto-Phwaim is the reconstructed ancestor of the Phim-Hwan languages, a family spoken for the most part in the central region of Phwaim. It is estimated to have been spoken around 10.000 HW.
Phonology
The reconstructed consonant phoneme inventory of Proto-Phwaim, with 37 consonants, is shown in the table below:
Consonants
Bilabial | Dental, Alveolar | Postalveolar | Palatal(ized) | Velar | Uvular | |||
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Central | Lateral | |||||||
Nasals | m [m] | n [n] | ń [nʲ ~ ɲ] | ŋ [ŋ] | ||||
Stops | Aspirated | ph [pʰ] | th [tʰ] | kh [kʰ] | ||||
Voiceless | p [p] | t [t] | k [k] | |||||
Voiced | b [b] | d [d] | g [g] | |||||
Affricates | Aspirated | čh [t͡ʃʰ] | ćh [t͡sʲʰ ~ t͡ɕʰ] | |||||
Voiceless | č [t͡ʃ] | ć [t͡sʲ ~ t͡ɕ] | ||||||
Voiced | ǧ [d͡ʒ] | ǵ [d͡zʲ ~ d͡ʑ] | ||||||
Fricatives | Voiceless | s [s] | ṣ [ɬ] | š [ʃ] | x[χ] | |||
Palatalized | s' [sʲ] | ṣ' [ɬʲ] | š' [ʃʲ] | x'[χʲ] | ||||
Voiced | z [z] | ẓ [ɮ] | ž [ʒ] | ḥ[ʁ] | ||||
Approximants | v [w] | y [j] | ||||||
Liquids | r [r] | l [l] | r' [rʲ] l' [lʲ ~ʎ] |
The phonemes *ń, *ćh, *ć, *ǵ, *l' were either palatalized [nʲ, t͡sʲʰ, t͡sʲ, d͡zʲ, lʲ] or true palatal [ɲ, t͡ɕʰ, t͡ɕ, d͡ʑ, ʎ].
The pronunciation of *r' is not precisely known, but it was approximately a palatalized trill [rʲ].
Vowels
The Proto-Phwaim vowel system is traditionally reconstructed to have used the following 10 vowel phonemes, contrasting two degrees of length, as shown in the table below:
Front | Back | |||
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unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |
Close | i [i] | ü [y] | ï [ɯ] | u [u] |
Close-mid | e [e] | ö [ø] | ë [ɤ] | o [o] |
Open | ä [æ] | a [ɑ] |
Morphology
Nouns
Proto-Phwaim had 13 cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, ablative, instrumental, comitative, terminative, Illative, allative, equative, partitive), two systems of number (singular-dual–plural and collective–singulative) and two genders (human vs nonhuman). A noun stem can take up to 2 types of suffixes:
stem + (number) + (case)