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Proto-Sinatolean long vowels are often, primarily by convention, transcripted with a  
Proto-Sinatolean long vowels are often, primarily by convention, transcripted with a macron above the vowel, e.g. ⟨ā, ē, ḗ, ṓ, ī, ū, ō⟩(⟨ṓ⟩ is often used as a form of *øː).
==Morphology==
==Morphology==
===Affixes===
===Affixes===

Revision as of 14:50, 3 August 2024

Proto-Sinatolean
Created byJukethatbox
Reconstruction ofSinatolean languages
RegionEastern Sinatoleans, Western Nelahgan
Era300-400 CE
Lower-order reconstructions
  • Proto-Southern Sinatolean
  • Proto-Naéllang
  • Proto-Sinat’
  • Proto-Central Sinatolean

Proto-Sinatolean is the proto-language of the Sinatolean language family. It was spoken for around 100 years, between the years of around 300-400 CE, in a region that probably encompassed the eastern Sinatolean Archipelago and western half of the Nelahgan Islands. It diverged into what is now the Southern Sinatolean languages and Naéllang languages around 400-450 CE. Other major branches of the Sinatolean language family later split from the Southern languages between the years 600-800 CE.

Phonology

Consonants

Labial Labiodental Alveolar Palatal Velar Glottal
Plosive *p *b *t *d *c *j *k *g
Nasal *m *n
Fricative *f *v *s *z *h
Semivowel *w *y
Lateral *l

Vowels

Short vowels

Front Central Back
Close *i *u
Close-mid *e *ø *o
Open *a

Long vowels

Front Central Back
Close *iː *éː *uː
Close-mid *eː *øː *oː
Open *aː

Proto-Sinatolean long vowels are often, primarily by convention, transcripted with a macron above the vowel, e.g. ⟨ā, ē, ḗ, ṓ, ī, ū, ō⟩(⟨ṓ⟩ is often used as a form of *øː).

Morphology

Affixes

Various affixes were probably used in various places in Proto-Sinatolean. Below shows a table of the most common affixes, reconstructed from various languages. (Note: There were probably no infixes in Proto-Sinatolean, so hyphens on both sides of a term usually denote terms that appear as both prefixes and suffixes.)

Proto-Sinatolean Use Reconstructed from
*-ka Denotes a location or place. Sinatolean -ka
Nillíno -cah
Mitu Õa -ka
Ináacha ća-
*-ja Denotes speech, dialect or language. Sinatolean -ya
Nillíno -(a)llà
Mowinda-Moyeng -ja’-
*doh- "child of", akin to Johnson Sinatolean tō’ "son"
Nillíno doh-
Narabõa ddõa "boy"
*-pu- Early form of plurality; later replaced in most
descendant languages by *-a and *-i
Nillíno cóobu

Syntax

Word order

Proto-Sinatolean is a verb-final language(SOV), as all Sinatolean languages are verb-final. In some cases however, the language of Narabõa does sometimes transition to a somewhat SVO-like form.