Proto-Rajo-Faraneit

Proto-Rajo-Faraneit
Pronounced:	own name unknown, extinct
Timeline and Universe:	theoretically this universe, future
Species:	Humanoid
Spoken:	Measceineafh
Total speakers:	extinct
Writing system:	Romanization
Genealogy:	None, proto-language
Typology
Morphological type:	Isolating
Morphosyntactic alignment:	Nominative-Accusative
Basic word order:	VSO and SVO
Credits
Creator:	Humancadaver101 aka Schwhatever aka Buckfush530
Created:	July 2007

Proto-Rajo-Faraneit (PRF) is the language from which all other Rajo-Faraneit languages derive. This includes Faraneit, Rajat, Fórong, and several others. This language is quite nebulous and ill-defined in places due to a highly incomplete historical and linguistic record.

Phonology

	Bilabial	Labio-Dental	Dental	Alveolar	Post-Alveolar	Retroflex	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
Stop	p  b			t  d				k	q
Affricate		pf  bv	tθ	ts
Nasal	m			n
Fricative		f  v	θ	s				x
Approximants and Trills				r		ɻ
Lateral Flap				l		ɭ

• /xi/ = [çi]
• /si/ = [ʃi]
• VX(V) = VY(V), where X is any unvoiced phoneme without a voiced counterpart and Y is the corresponding voiced phone
• /'e 'o 'æ/ = [e: o: æ:]
• unstressed /i u ɛ ɑ/ = [ɪ ʊ ə ɒ]
• V/i/V, V/u/V = V[j]V, V[w]V
• /#'i/, /#'u/ = [ji], [wu]
• stressed /p b t d k q/ are aspirated

Conjugation

There are five tenses in PRF, narrative past, past, simple present, progressive, and future. All of these except the simple present rely on auxilaries to perform conjugation. These participles conjugate for the person of the subject, but not the number.

	Narrative Past	Simple Past	Progressive Present	Future
First Person	uz'iθ	ɑz'iɑu	ez'iɑu	iz'iɑu
Second Person	uz'ɛθ	ɑz'ɛ	ez'ɛ	iz'iɑ
Third Person	uz'io	ɑz'io	ez'io	iz'io