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Proto-Tenarian is the reconstructed language from which the Elasian, Valian and Lillian languages derive. | Proto-Tenarian is the reconstructed language from which the Elasian, Valian and Lillian languages derive. It is named after the Tenarian mountain range where the origin of the family is posited to have been located. | ||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
Revision as of 16:17, 4 September 2013
Proto-Tenarian is the reconstructed language from which the Elasian, Valian and Lillian languages derive. It is named after the Tenarian mountain range where the origin of the family is posited to have been located.
Phonology
Similar to other reconstructed languages, Proto-Tenarian is not written using the IPA but uses the following system (TPA) which only marginally differs from the IPA. The primary differences are noted here.
| Tenarian Phonetic Alphabet | IPA |
|---|---|
| a | a ~ ɑ |
| e | e ~ ɛ |
| i | i |
| o | o~ɔ |
| ü | y |
| ä | æ |
| ö | ø |
| ś | kʲ ~ tʲ ~ t͡s ~ t͡ʃ |
Furthermore, stress is marked by the acute accent.
Vowels
The Proto-Tenarian vowel system is reconstructed as having been very similar to the system encountered in Valian, but lacking length distinctions and ë.
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unrounded | Rounded | Unrounded | Rounded | |
| Close | i | ü | u | |
| Mid | e | ö | o | |
| Open | ä a1 | a | ||
- 1 As the phonetic value of a has yet to be determined with certainty it is here included in both front and back vowels.