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 | familycolor = Indo-European
 | target = [[Yeldhic languages|Yeldhic]]
-| region = "Bauba", Quartenary Radael<ref>Hypothetical land before Radael.</ref>
+| region = "Bauba",<ref>Hypothetical land before Radael.</ref> Quartenary Radael
 | era = {{formatnum:10000}} UH-{{formatnum:3000}} UH
-| ancestor = Proto-Baubaic(?)
 | child1 = Proto-Gadaïc
 | child2 = Proto-Ilda-Maranösic
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 ! colspan=2 rowspan=2 | !! rowspan=2 | Labial !! rowspan=2 | Dental !! colspan=2 | Coronal !! colspan=3 | Dorsal !! rowspan=2 |  Glottal !! rowspan=2 | Pharyngeal
 |-
-! Alveolar !! Post-alveolar !! (Labial-)<br>velar !! Palatal !! Uvular
+! Alveolar !! Post-alveolar !! Velar !! Palatal !! Uvular
 |-
 ! rowspan=2 | Plosive
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 ** Paleoyeldhic ''*meksi''
 *** Moshurian [[Contionary:mesk|''mesk'']]
-** Etzeá ''meîye''
+** Etzeá ''mei'e''
 ** Proto-Ulmic ''*mVcne''
-*** Ormå ''nncę''
+*** Ormå ''nncẽ''
 * PY ''*ɣōsan''
 ** Paleoyeldhic ''*hosan''
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 ** Etzeá ''xoisen''
 ** Proto-Ulmic ''*fsan''
-*** Ormå ''fsån''
+*** Ormå ''fsän''
+===Deconsonantification===
+In many PY-derivative languages, many palatalised consonants, like *ś and *ź, were "deconsonantified", leaving only a voiced palatal approximant, *j. Thus, where there were (probably) palatalised consonants in PY, they were lost in descendant languages.
+However, there is still some evidence for the existence of the palatalised consonants. For example:
+* The palatalised consonants were preserved in Etzeá, though *ź split into two consonants: ''zz'' [zʲ] and ''zv'' [ʒ].
+* In [[Maranz]], the consonant ''gh'' [j̥] seem to have been derived from Proto-Yeldhic *ś. This can be especially seen in the word for "four", ''i'''gh'''in'', which is derived from PY ''*wi'''ś'''en''.
 ===Prosody===
 ====Stress====
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 ===Morphophonology===
 ==Morphology==
+===Nouns===
+====Number====
+Various theories have been proposed on how grammatical number worked in Proto-Yeldhic. The most referred to is the Fulugisáá theory, which states that grammatical number was deduced by the suffix ''-i''. The theory is named after Fulugisáá Tsó-tso, though many attribute the original theory to Zeror, who stated in 260 BH in his ''Republic''([[Ilda]]: ''Kopirrās'') that,<blockquote>"[I] have found a pattern among the many tongues of the ''Plikis''<ref>An ancient term for the peoples in the Paleoyeldhic strip.</ref>, in which they seem to append fully tongued upper open vowels<ref>Zeror's term for an unrounded close front vowel, or [i] in IPA</ref> to nouns to indicate many items of the noun[...]</blockquote>
+===Numerals===
+{| class=wikitable style="text-align: center;"
+! colspan=2 | Proto-Yeldhic !! rowspan=2 | Moshurian !! rowspan=2 | English
+|-
+! Original Téfir !! Modern
+|-
+| ''*ik'' || ''*ik'' || ''ik'' || one
+|-
+| ''*ir'' || ''*bʰīn'' || ''oyamö'' || two
+|-
+| ''*ti'' || ''*tʰid-ði'' || ''tikré'' || three
+|-
+| ''*hihonâ''<ref>In the original ''Tezyém Yéleduhir'', ⟨â⟩ represented a front open vowel, [a]. Most Yeldhists today dispute the existence of the front open vowel in PY, instead arguing for the existence of a more centralised realisation, [ä] in IPA.</ref> || ''*wiśen'' || ''igoyà'' || four
+|-
+| ''*tikumam'' || ''*igʰoīm'' || ''tikoyam'' || five
+|}
 ==Syntax==
 ===Constituent order===