Archaic Imperial (Empire-in-the-West)

Archaic Imperial (AI) is the name given to the earliest attested ancestor of Modern Standard Imperial. The corpus of AI texts is fairly small: some runic carvings, and the Imperial Law Code of the Temple; the language has been reconstructed based on its daughter and sister languages with a fair degree of confidence.

Phonology

Consonants

POA	Labials	Dentals	Emphatics	Velars	Uvulars	Glottals
Tenuis stops	p /p/	t /t/	ṭ /tˤ/	k /k/	q /q/	? /ʔ/
Lenis stops	b /b/	d /d/	ḍ /dˤ/	g /g/	ḡ /ɢ/
Fortis stops	ph /pʰ/	th /tʰ/	ṭh /tˤʰ/	kh /kʰ	qh /qʰ/
Fricatives	f /f/	s /s/	ç /ç/	x /x/	ẋ /χ/	h /h/
Nasals	m /m/	n /n/
Liquids		l /l/, r /r/
Glides			y /j/	w /w/

Vowels

Short: /i a u/ Long: /iː aː uː/ <ī ā ū> Diphthong: /ai au/ <ai au>

Suprasegmentals

Allophony