Tsimulh languages
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The Naquic languages are a Trician language family mainly spoken in Txapoalli and Etalocin. The proto-language is Proto-Naqquic. Relations to other language families are unknown, though a few propose a Naquo-Quihum family.
Phylogeny
| Proto-Naquic |
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Urheimat
Somewhere in Txapoalli
Phonology
Salish gib
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| central | lateral | plain | labialized | plain | labialized | |||||
| Nasal | plain | m | n | |||||||
| glottalized | mˀ | nˀ | ||||||||
| Stop | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ | ||
| ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | qʼ | qʷʼ | ||||
| Affricate | plain | ts | tɬ | tʃ? | ||||||
| ejective | tsʼ | tɬʼ | tʃʼ? | |||||||
| Fricative | s | ɬ | ʃ? | x | xʷ | χ | χʷ | h | ||
| Approximant | plain | l | j | w | ||||||
| glottalized | lˀ | jˀ | wˀ | |||||||
Vowels
i u ə a /i u ə a/
Morphology
10 noun classes