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Proto-Levantine was never written down, there's no special convention apart from using macrons to denote long vowels, so IPA is mostly always used | |||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
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Revision as of 17:01, 2 December 2025
| Proto-Levantine | |
|---|---|
| PLV | |
| Created by | Diego Martínez |
| Reconstruction of | Levantine languages |
| Region | Northern Anatolia |
| Era | 3000 B.C.-1600 B.C. |
Reconstructed ancestor | |
Proto-Levantine is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Levantine languages, spoken in modern day Israel, Lebanon and Egypt.
Introduction
Phonology
Proto-Levantine was never written down, there's no special convention apart from using macrons to denote long vowels, so IPA is mostly always used
Consonants
| Labial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Glotal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| plain | labial | ||||||
| Nasal | *m | *n | |||||
| Stop | *p, *b | *t, *d | *k, *g | *kʷ, *gʷ | |||
| Affricates | *t͡s, *d͡z, | ||||||
| Fricative | *ɸ | *s, *θ | *x, *ɣ | (h) | |||
| Liquids | *r *l | *j | *w | ||||