Sevvuferyn History:Linguistic

Language Families up to Sevvufery

The oldest lanuage in The Sevvuferyn tree of whose existence scholars are aware is ȢȤȜȿ ("ZZanu" being the best approximation according to Sevvuferyn orthography and phonetics, though the real pronunciation was likely closer to /sʛˈæɴɯ/ in the times when ȢȤȜȿ was most commonly spoken. From this language, the gradual loss of the phoneme /ə/, which still puzzles contemporary researches, caused it to diverge into 4 separate languages, one being proto-Erad-Jwar#ða, which further diverged into proto-Erad and proto-Jwar#ða, of which proto-Erad is the most important. Proto-Erad, naturally, evolves into Erad, the most famous ancestor of the Sevvuferyn languages, and also the first to use a similar writing system to Sevvufery.

The phonology of Erad, however, is in many ways quite different from that of Sevvufery. For one, it has kept the unrounded close back vowel /ɯ/, which Sevvufery does not have, and still allows tripthongs and consonant clusters of up to 8 consonants - an extreme example of this is the word "milamndiitspru" /milamⁿʝztxpru/, which refers to the concept of a person who has just died, having spent a long time in injustice.