Proto-Thesomalchellean

The Proto-Thesom-Alchellean language is the hypothetical common ancestor of the Thesom-Alchellean languages. Although the existence of such a language has been accepted by linguists of the different realms for a long time, there has been debate about many specific details.

Phonology

Proto-Thesomalchellean Phonolgy - Consonants (traditional transcription)

	Bilabials	Dentals	Palatals	Velars	Uvulars
Plosives	p b	t d	c j	k g	q y
Aspiratae	pʰ bʰ	tʰ dʰ	cʰ jʰ	kʰ gʰ	qʰ yʰ
Nasals	m	n		ŋ
Sonorants		s l r

The Palatal and Uvular rows lack phonetic nasals.

Proto-Thesomalchellean Phonolgy - Vowels (traditional transcription)

Ablaut	Front High	Central Low	Back High
Normal	i	a	u
Long	ī	ā	ū
Weak	ĭ	ă	ŭ
A-Infixion	aĭ	aă	aŭ

Roots

All scholars of Proto-Thesom-Alchellean have finally agreed that even before Proto-Thesom-Alchellean some basic language existed. This ante-Proto language is called The Root System. Roots are the most basic source of vocabulary, something that could be called “the bones of any language”.

Roots consist of characteristic consonants (one to four) and characteristic vowels (only one per root).

√BH-N-TH(A) √TH-S(I)