Proto-Hesperic (2018)

Proto-Hesperic is a Macro-Indo-European diachronic conlang by Jörg Rhiemeier that is currently under construction, and represents the reconstructed common ancestor of the Hesperic language family. It is a lostlang and forms a part of the League of Lost Languages. Proto-Hesperic is an agglutinating language related to Proto-Indo-European, assumed to have been spoken in Central Europe around 4000 BC. The vocabulary is in part based on Proto-Indo-European, in part on words with uncertain etymologies in Celtic and Germanic that may be loanwords from lost substratum languages; there are also some original creations in the vocabulary and a few words from argots such as Shelta or Rotwelsch.

Phonology

Consonants

	Labial	Coronal	Palatal	Velar
Aspirated stops	*ph	*th		*kh
Neutral stops	(*p)	*t		*k
Voiced stops	*b	*d		*g
Fricatives		*s		*x
Nasals	*m	*n
Liquids		*l *r
Semivowels	*w		*j

The phoneme *p is marginal and may not have existed. The language may have also had a labialized velar series, but these probably just were plain velars followed by *w.

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
High	*i		*u
Low		*a