Proto-Choogo
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| Proto-Choogo | |
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| Morphological type: | synthetic |
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| Qwynegold | |
Proto-Choogo is an a posteriori language based on Japanese. It is the parent language of Shochakbẽ, Teekaabẽ, Ũlyuubẽ, Tosamabẽ, Linkōbẽ, Akabẽ, Tôbẽ, Seebẽ and Yōbẽ.
Phonology
Consonants
Below are approximate tables of the Proto-Choogo's phoneme inventory. Sounds in parenthesis only exist as allophones.
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasals | m | n | (ŋ) | |||||||||||||
| <m> | <n> | <n> | ||||||||||||||
| Plosives | (p) | b | t | d | (ɟ) | k | ɡ | |||||||||
| <pp> | <t> | <d> | <j> | <k> | <g> | |||||||||||
| Fricatives | f | s | z | ʃ | (ç) | h | ||||||||||
| <f> | <z> | <sh> | <h(y)> | <h> | ||||||||||||
| Affricates | ts | tʃ | dʲʒ | |||||||||||||
| <ts> | <ch> | <j> | ||||||||||||||
| Approximants | j | |||||||||||||||
| <j> | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| <l> | ||||||||||||||||
Vowels
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | ||||||
| High | i | (ɯ) | u | |||||||
| Near-high | (ɪ) | (ʊ) | ||||||||
| High-mid | e | (ɤ) | o | |||||||
| <e> | <o> | <o> | ||||||||
| Mid | ||||||||||
| Low-mid | (ɛ) | |||||||||
| <e> | ||||||||||
| Near-low | ||||||||||
| Low | ä | (ɑ) | ||||||||
| <a> | <a> | |||||||||
Proto-Choogo has phonemic length for all vowels and the consonants m, n, t, s, ʃ, ts and tʃ. Both /bː/ and /hː/ are realized as [pː]. Nasalization contrast also exists for all vowels.
The syllable structure is (C)V(V)(V)(V)(C).
