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 a head-final agglutinating active-stative language related to Proto-Indo-European, assumed to have been spoken in Central Europe around 4000 BC; it also resembles Proto-Uralic in its morphology, and seems to form a kind of "missing link" between the two families. 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 |
