Proto-Phwaim

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Proto-Phwaim is a fictional language by Polka Dot. Proto-Phwaim is the reconstructed ancestor of the Phim-Hwan languages, a family spoken for the most part in the central region of Ryusi. It is estimated to have been spoken around 10.000 HW.

PHONOLOGY

The reconstructed phoneme inventory of Proto-Phwaim is shown in the tables below:

CONSONANTS

Proto-Phwaim Consonantal Phonemes
  Bilabial Alveolar Palatal Velar Uvular Glottal
Central Lateral
Nasals / m n nʲ ŋ / < m n ń ŋ >
Stops / p pʰ b t tʰ d k kʰ g / < p ph b t th d k kh g >
Affricates / t͡sʲ t͡sʲʰ d͡zʲ t͡ʃ t͡ʃʰ d͡ʒ / < ć ćh ǵ č čh ǧ >
Fricatives / ɬ ɬʲ ɮ s sʲ z ʃ ʃʲ ʒ χ χʲ ʁ / < ṣ ṣ' ẓ s s' z š š' ž x x' ḥ >
Approximants / j w r rʲ l lʲ / < y v r r' l l' >

Nouns

Proto-Phwaim had 13 cases (nominative, accusative, genitive, dative, locative, ablative, instrumental, comitative, terminative, Illative, allative, equative, partitive), two systems of number (singular-dual–plural and collective–singulative) and two genders (human vs nonhuman). A noun stem can take up to 2 inflectional suffixes:

stem + (number) + (case)