Ogili

Ogili is a family of Khulls languages spoken in the area around the imperial capital of the Khulls Empire. The early name for the city was Ogili, derived from earlier Oḳilî. All five languiages resemble each other very much, as they changed very rapidly for the first 2000 years of their existence and then fairly slowly from then on.

Phonology

Proto-Ogili is a "P-Khulls" language, in the sense that Khulls' labialized consonants became pure bilabial consonants in Ogili. This led to massive phonological collision, as there were already bilabial consonants in the language for them to merge with. Khulls /b bʷ ṗ ṗʷ ḳʷ ġʷ gʷ/ all merged unconditionally as /b/, and /p pʷ kʷ xʷ/ all merged unconditionally as /p/. The loss of labialization led to a splitting of the vowel system into plain and "post-labialized" vowels. The post-labialized vowels at first could only occur before labial consonants because of their origin, but this soon ended because final consonants were deleted.

Thus Ogili had only 14 consonants, far less than the 35-40 possessed by Khulls: /p b m f v t d n s z l k g h/. In this case, /g/ varies allophonically between a voiced stop and a voiced fricative. Some Ogili languages have even fewer consonants.

Ogili languages provide most of the toponymy for cities in the nation of Safiz, which is presently Moonshine territory because the Ogili speakers grew more slowly than Moonshines and became outnumbered over a period of 1500 years.

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Khulls: pʷ p k kʷ Ogili: p p k p Rabbit: p f č k Moonshine: p p č k

Poswa: pʷ p k kʷ Pabappa: p p p p