Leaper/Apple

Lòkrika is the name of a language descended from Khulls that comes to superficially resemble Proto-Indo-European by shedding some of its dorsal fricatives, thus increasing the prominence among the fricatives of the previously rare s, but retaining enough dorsal fricatives to remind the listener of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals. Additionally, Lòkriki distinguishes labialization on some of its stops, but not its nasals or sonorants. There are no palatals. There are no voiced aspirates. However, as in Khulls, it is very likely that voiceless aspirates will be far more common than any other stop series.

Lokrika will probably remain a tonal language, but with a somewhat reduced system and a stress pattern that limits tone to just one syllable per word.

My intention is for Lokrika to be fairly close in time to Khulls, thus leaving time to branch off daughter languages that resemble early IE languages the way that Lokrika resembles PIE. These will round out Lokrika's unstable vowel system by deleting the remaining laryngeals, after first using them to allophonically color surrounding vowels.

There will probably be no ablaut, and no distinction between /kw/ and /kʷ/ or like sequences. However, such distinctions may appear in the daughter languages.

Lokrika will likely need to abandon Khulls' "mend and blend" sandhi operation, which took disharmonious consonant sequences such as /xʷn/ and "repaired" them into harmonious clusters like /nkʷ/, or in some cases into single consonants.