Þeoþlewisæþ

Old Tsjoen was an older form of Tsjoen, spoken ca. -100~300 fT (around the time of Old Wiobian).

Todo

• *nkwaadj 'song, chant' > Old Tsj. gváj 'poem' > Modern Tsj. gvae 'poem' (cognate to Wb. Nquahdj)
• *peunta 'love' > Old Tsj. pjóda > pjoda 'love' (literary) (cognate to Wb. piont)
• *hweuta 'sky' > Old Tsj. hvjóta > hvjota 'cloud'

Phonology

Old Norse-Middle Chinese hybrid gib

Consonants

Þeoþlewisæþ consonants

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Medial	Palatal	Velar
Nasal		m /m/	n /n/				ng /ŋ/
Plosive	voiceless	p /p/	t /t/				k /k/
	voiced	b /b/	d /d/				g /g/
Fricative	voiceless	f /f/	θ /θ/	s /s/	x /ɬ/		h /x~h/
	voiced	β /β/	δ /δ/	z /z/			γ /ɣ/
Affricate	voiceless		ts /ts/
	voiced		dz /dz/
Resonant		v /w/	r /r/	l /l/	ζ /ɻ/	j /j/

• In Modern Tsjoen, /β ð ɣ/ merged with /b d g/ word-initially and was lost in other environments. /dz/ merged with /z/ and /zj/ merged with /ɻ/.
• /ŋ/ and clusters with /ŋ/ were allowed word-initially, unlike in Modern Tsjoen.

Vowels

Old Tsjoen probably had 9 short and long monophthongs.

	Front		Central	Back
	unrounded	rounded
Close	i /i/, í /iː/	y /y/, ý /yː/		u /u/, ú /uː/
Mid	e /e/, é /eː/	ø /ø/, ǿ /øː/	ə /ə~ɨ/, ə́ /əː/	o /o/, ó /oː/
Open	æ /ɛ/, ǽ /ɛː/		a /a/	á /ɑː/

Diphthongs

Numerous -j and -w diphthongs (some from PWio -dj and -hw)

Morphology

Old Tsjoen morphology was more complex than modern Tsjoen. Modern Tsjoen is analytic as a result of influence from the Hlou-Shum languages and more recently Rhythoed.