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Revision as of 18:30, 4 March 2018
The Hlou-Ku languages (Eevo: bo brits Lloo-Cw; Hlou: Schë Ntzog Schlaub-Kug; Ku: lees yoo ndoigh Hloobh-Kuamh) are a small family of languages native to Verse:Tricin/Bjeheond. Most modern Hlou-Ku languages are tonal. The proto-language, Proto-Hlou-Ku, is 2500 years old. The family is based on the idea of IE languages recast as Hmong-like languages. Hlou-Ku languages had much more importance in the past, but today Tsjoen, Wiobian and Rhythoed are more dominant in Bjeheond.
Family tree
- Proto-Hlou-Ku
Timeline
Proto-Hlou-Ku: 2500 years BP
Writing system
Proto-Hlou-Ku was written with a system of logographs. Hlou, Ku and Shumian developed the logographs separately into their own writing systems.
Phonology
Phonotactics
The typical Proto-Hlou-Ku word had the structure
(preinitial) + (C)C[r/l]V(C)(C)tone.
Preinitials were unstressed, derivational prefixes and were lost without a trace in some descendants, such as Ku.
Some unstressed prefixes: nə-, rə-
Initials
~30 consonants:
p t ṭ ḱ k ʔ b d ḍ ǵ g f v z s x h tz ts tx dz ds dx m n ṇ ń y r l w (z, s as in Basque)
s-series > ɬ-series in some descendants
Ku and Clooa gain uvulars through velars + r/l.
Nuclei
a e i o u ə ai au əi əu iə uə - a few more vowels for Liai
Hlou will merge ai/au with əi/əu > lots of ei/au! <3
Nasal vowels?
Coda
Allowed finals: just -ŋ, -k, -h, -ʔ
Cheshirized grammatical particles -> lenition, eclipsis in Ku
Tones
3 tones: high, mid, low
Grammar
Proto-Hlou-Ku was head-initial like Vietnamese.
Derivation
- -l- infix?
Reflexes
Initials
pr, br > pʂ > pf in Hlou