Ranic languages

Ranic
Created by	–
Geographic distribution	Chunda Capeto
Linguistic classification	One of Tricin's primary language families
Proto-language	Proto-Ranic

The Ranic languages are a family of minority languages mostly spoken in Chunda Capeto.

Languages

• Capetan (Feynman Italian gib)
• Palkhan
• pseudo-Polynesian languages
  • Some vowel inventories (possibly with length): a e i o; a e o; a i o; e i o u (as in arapaho); a eo i eu u
  • Tūtu Qāda: p t k b d ʔ; a i u ā ī ū
  • Noun class systems like Caucasian languages

Proto-Ranic phonology

p pʰ β t tʰ ð tʲ tʲʰ ðʲ k kʰ ɣ ʔ

m n ŋ nʲ l lʲ r s sʲ h ʃ~ç w j

orthography:

p φ b t θ d t́ θ́ d́ k χ g ’

m n ŋ ń l ĺ r s ś h š w j

• ʔam-t-, χõsi, salu, mäkse, dilme, bäne

12: *χõsi-bäne -> χõspen -> khā̃pṇa "dozen" in modern Palkhan that sounds pretty marathi gibby

• s ś -> Modern Palkhan t s

another greeky sound change in palkhan: *w sometimes becomes v and sometimes h

• weće- -> yāh- "to be"

should be *weke-

• hjāh- (Middle Palkhan) -> yāh- (Modern Palkhan)

Morphology

cases in palkhan:

• wala "tale, story" (~ vaḷa in Kaḷēvaḷa)

nom: wala, walar acc: walak, walarak gen: walat, walan possessive suffixes: wala-ńe, wala-re, wala-mme, wala-śśi, wala-mkä, etc. (Palkhan, unlike Uralic, has grammatical gender)

Reflexes

Ranese

k > ch, qe > te

pr tr kr > br dr r

py ty ky ry ly my ny nly mp nt nk nq > tt zz tt rr ll m nd l mp nt nt nc/nt/nqu

sl -> s initially, lt medially

zl -> ch initially, ld medially

nl > n initially, ln medially

a i o e u eu > a i o e u a?

Arabic/LP

a i o u e ı > /a i u u a i/

kw > '; s, k > k; r, l > d; m, n > b, d; y > '

mp nt nk nkw > pp tt kk ʔʔ

VCy > V:C

Lexicon

• tutyó = to speak (Dod. tuzzo, tūtu in the Lakes Plain gib)
• atı = 1 (Dod ata, LP gib ati)
• epı = 2 (Dod epa, LP gib api)
• mi, ki, ti = 1sg, 1+2du, 2sg (Dod mi, chi, ti; LP gib mi, ki, ti)
• =qe = also, too
• qénya = language? cipher? (Ranese téndá 'character', LP gib ʔāda)