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Old Pulqer (Pul. Pulkaeri) is a Romance language spoken between approximately the 3rd and 10th centuries AD in the island of Jaques (Pul. Tśaqa).
Phonology and Orthography
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i(ː) | u(ː) |
| Open-mid | ɛ | |
| Open | a |
The high vowels /i, u/ are long in stressed open syllables, when followed by a single consonant + vowel (e.g. muru /muːru/), and they are short in all other environments. The low vowels /a, ɛ/ are always short (their long variants are diphthongised to /ae, ei/).
The following diphthongs also occur: /ae, ai, au, ei, ui/.
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Post-alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain | Labial | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||
| Plosive | pʰ p | tʰ t | kʰ k | kʷʰ kʷ | |||
| Fricative | ɸ | s | ʃ | h | |||
| Affricate | t͡s | t͡ʃ | |||||
| Trill | r | ||||||
| Approximant | j | ||||||
| Lateral app. | l |