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[[Hlou-Shum languages/Lexicon]]

'''Hlou-Shum''' ([[Hlou]]: ''Ntzog Ntzog Schlaub-~~Xön~~''; [[Ko]]: ''lees yoo ndoigh Hloodh-Xoo'') is a ~~placeholder~~ name for a language family that includes [[Hlou]]. Most modern Hlou-Shum languages are tonal. The proto-language, '''Proto-Hlou-Shum''' (PHS), is about 2500 years old. The family is based on the idea of recasting IE languages as Hmong-like languages.

'''Hlou-Shum''' ([[Hlou]]: ''Ntzog Ntzog Schlaub-Xub''; [[Ko]]: ''lees yoo ndoigh Hloodh-Xoo'') is a name for a language family that includes [[Hlou]]. Most modern Hlou-Shum languages are tonal. The proto-language, '''Proto-Hlou-Shum''' (PHS), is about 2500 years old. The family is based on the idea of recasting IE languages as Hmong-like languages.

TODO: actually look at OC more

==Family tree==

*Proto-Hlou-Shum

**[[Hlou]] (''Ntzog Schlaub'')

**Hlouic

***[[Hlou]] (''Ntzog Schlaub'')

**Shumic

***[[Shum]] (''lhàu śúṃ'')

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==Writing system==

Proto-Hlou-Shum ~~was~~ written with a system of logographs. Hlou, Ko and ~~Shumian developed the logographs separately into their own writing systems.~~

Proto-Hlou-Shum and most early Hlou-Shum languages were written with a system of logographs. Nowadays, there are four main writing systems:

* ''Schräd Schlaub'', used to write Hlou, Gloob, and Clooa

* ?????

==Phonology==

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A Proto-Hlou-Shum word had the structure

(preinitial) + (C)C(r/l)V(C)(C) ~~<sup>tone</sup>~~.

(preinitial) + (C)C(r/l)V(C)(C).

Preinitials were unstressed derivational prefixes.

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===Initials===

*p t tθ ts tx ḱ k kw ʔ

*~~ph th tθh tsh txh ḱh kh kwh~~

*bh dh dθh dsh dxh ģh gh gwh

*b d dθ ds dx ǵ g gw

*bh dh dθh dsh dxh ǵh gh gwh

*f θ s x h

*F Θ S X H = voiced/breathy f θ s x h

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*-m -n -l -w -y

*-ʔ -s

*~~plosive~~ + s or ʔ

*nasal + s or ʔ

*~~nasal~~ + s

*plosive + s

===Tones===

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 [[Hlou-Shum languages/Lexicon]]
-'''Hlou-Shum''' ([[Hlou]]: ''Ntzog Ntzog Schlaub-Xön''; [[Ko]]: ''lees yoo ndoigh Hloodh-Xoo'') is a placeholder name for a language family that includes [[Hlou]]. Most modern Hlou-Shum languages are tonal. The proto-language, '''Proto-Hlou-Shum''' (PHS), is about 2500 years old. The family is based on the idea of recasting IE languages as Hmong-like languages.
+'''Hlou-Shum''' ([[Hlou]]: ''Ntzog Ntzog Schlaub-Xub''; [[Ko]]: ''lees yoo ndoigh Hloodh-Xoo'') is a name for a language family that includes [[Hlou]]. Most modern Hlou-Shum languages are tonal. The proto-language, '''Proto-Hlou-Shum''' (PHS), is about 2500 years old. The family is based on the idea of recasting IE languages as Hmong-like languages.
 TODO: actually look at OC more
 ==Family tree==
 *Proto-Hlou-Shum
-**[[Hlou]] (''Ntzog Schlaub'')
+**Hlouic
+***[[Hlou]] (''Ntzog Schlaub'')
 **Shumic
 ***[[Shum]] (''lhàu śúṃ'')
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 ==Writing system==
-Proto-Hlou-Shum was written with a system of logographs. Hlou, Ko and Shumian developed the logographs separately into their own writing systems.
+Proto-Hlou-Shum and most early Hlou-Shum languages were written with a system of logographs. Nowadays, there are four main writing systems:
+* ''Schräd Schlaub'', used to write Hlou, Gloob, and Clooa
+* ?????
 ==Phonology==
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 A Proto-Hlou-Shum word had the structure
-(preinitial) + (C)C(r/l)V(C)(C) <sup>tone</sup>.
+(preinitial) + (C)C(r/l)V(C)(C).
 Preinitials were unstressed derivational prefixes.
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 ===Initials===
 *p t tθ ts tx ḱ k kw ʔ
-*ph th tθh tsh txh ḱh kh kwh
+*bh dh dθh dsh dxh ģh gh gwh
 *b d dθ ds dx ǵ g gw
-*bh dh dθh dsh dxh ǵh gh gwh
 *f θ s x h
 *F Θ S X H = voiced/breathy f θ s x h
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 *-m -n -l -w -y
 *-ʔ -s
-*plosive + s or ʔ
+*nasal + s or ʔ
-*nasal + s
+*plosive + s
 ===Tones===