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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Vowels=== | |||
More vowels than Proto-Talmic; has front rounded vowels | |||
===Consonants=== | |||
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 700px; text-align:center;" | |||
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! colspan="2" | | |||
! |Labial | |||
! |Dental | |||
! |Alveolar | |||
! |Medial | |||
! |Palatal | |||
! |Velar | |||
! |Labiovelar | |||
! |Uvular | |||
! |Glottal | |||
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! colspan="2" style="" |Nasal | |||
| *m | |||
| *ṋ | |||
| *n | |||
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! rowspan="2" |Plosive | |||
! |<small>voiceless</small> | |||
| *p | |||
| *ṱ | |||
| *t | |||
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| *k | |||
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| *q | |||
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! |<small>voiced</small> | |||
| *b | |||
| *ḓ | |||
| *d | |||
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| *g | |||
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! rowspan="2" style="" |Fricative | |||
! |<small>voiceless</small> | |||
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| *s | |||
| *σ | |||
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| *h | |||
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! |<small>voiced</small> | |||
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|*ζ | |||
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|rowspan="2"|*ʁ | |||
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! colspan="2" |Resonant | |||
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| *ḽ | |||
| *l | |||
| *r | |||
| *y | |||
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| *w | |||
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==Morphology== | ==Morphology== | ||
Revision as of 17:32, 5 August 2017
Old Roshterian is the reconstructed intermediate stage between Proto-Talmic and Roshterian.
- stress shift to penultimate (endings have not dropped completely yet)
- yields Modern Roshterian ultimate stress
- Old Irishy allomorphy
- ā > iə
Some words
- φlat-nəm "seed" > Old Roshterian *latnə > Roshterian laaṉ "child (offspring)"
- tekts "child" > Old Roshterian *tejθ, tejs- > Roshterian ṯeit, ṯeis- "child (young human)"
- bonditejθiə, bondejθiə "child-bearer, child-rearer, babysitter" > Roshterian breit, breiti- "woman"
- soliθe > OR höliθe "5" > Roshterian helit, lite-
- kabnənts > OR kabrəns "woman" > (lost)
- snuwem "round" > OR snǖ "fat" > Rooshterian ṉii "big"
- mārom "tree" > OR miəro "tree" > miar
Phonology
Vowels
More vowels than Proto-Talmic; has front rounded vowels
Consonants
| Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Medial | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Uvular | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | *m | *ṋ | *n | |||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | *p | *ṱ | *t | *k | *q | ||||
| voiced | *b | *ḓ | *d | *g | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | *s | *σ | *h | ||||||
| voiced | *ζ | *ʁ | ||||||||
| Resonant | *ḽ | *l | *r | *y | *w | |||||