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'''Zzean''' /ˈθiːən/ is an analytic monosyllabic tonal language in the Akya-Woms family, spoken in Aem-Zmaə. It is head-final and SVO.
'''Zzean''' /ˈθiːən/ is an analytic monosyllabic tonal language in the Akya-Woms family, spoken in Aem-Zmaə.
== Proto-Zzeic ==
Proto-Zzeic was spoken 3000 years BP.
 
Fortunately for Angaian historical linguists, extremely conservative relatives of Zzean within the Zzeic branch are spoken in highly mountainous areas. They allow much of Proto-Zzeic to be reconstructed.
=== Todo ===
 
h₂aw-bʰorḱ 'enclosure' → Proto-Zzeic obʰroc → Late Old Zzean əvʰɣɑc → Middle Zzean vəjt → EModZz fi(breathy, final stop tone) → ModZz fi͇ (tone class is D2) 'house'
 
ḱobreb → PZz k.brɛb → kbəb → p'ʌb → pà (E3) ‘cost’
 
PZz ə → w
PZz i → Modern Zzean ⟨ey⟩
PZz e → i
PZz a → Modern Zzean ⟨wa⟩
PZz o → Modern Zzean ⟨a⟩
PZz u → ɨ → Modern Zzean /i/ ⟨i⟩
PZz ew → ea
PZz aw → ea
PZz ow → wa
PZz ej → ay
PZz aj → e
PZz oj → w
===Phonology===
====Vowels====
i ɨ u ə e o a ē ō ā ī ɨ­̄ ū əi əɨ əu aj aɨ au
 
→ Early Old Zzean e ə o ʌ ɛ ɔ a iə uə ɨə i ɨ u əi əɨ əu ai aɨ au
→ Late Old Zzean e ʌ o ɐ ə ɑ æ iə uə ɨə ɪ ə ʊ i ɨ u ai aɨ au
(Praveenize /ɛ/ → /ə/ → /ʌ/ → /ɑ/ → /æ/ → /iə/ and /u/ → /i/)
====Consonants====
 
=== Grammar ===
Proto-Zzeic switched to using Colloquial Welsh-like constructions using inherited verbal nouns.  Old finite verb forms were lost by the Proto-Zzeic stage.
 
=== Lexicon ===
* xjeʔ ‘1SG’ (From PAW disjunctive 1SG *h₂yeh₁); Zzean zhi̬
* PAW *sleh₃s → PZz *s-lō-s → Old Zzean *sluəs → lu(C2) → lŵ 'to sit’
* h₂aw-bʰorḱ 'enclosure' → Proto-Zzeic obʰroc → Late Old Zzean əvʰɣɑc → Middle Zzean vəjt → EModZz fi(breathy, final stop tone) → ModZz fi͇ (tone class is D2) 'house'
* ḱobreb → PZz k.brɛb → kbəw → p'ʌw → pà (E3) ‘to buy'
* roy ‘in’ → PZz s-roj → rrw̖y ‘interior’
* bʰetr → PZz bʰēr → PZz bʰiən → piən (A2) → piw (A2) → pe̖a ‘(higher register) in (postposition)’; → dialectal pjuː → thw̖ ‘at (postposition)’

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Zzean /ˈθiːən/ is an analytic monosyllabic tonal language in the Akya-Woms family, spoken in Aem-Zmaə.

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