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Revision as of 17:33, 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 | ||||||