Proto-Pulchric: Difference between revisions

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Proto-Pulchric is one of the major proto-languages of Angai and also one of the best reconstructed.

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-'''Proto-Pulchric''' is one of the major proto-languages of Tricin and also one of the best reconstructed. Its main inspirations are Proto-Austronesian, Proto-Semitic and Lithuanian.
+'''Proto-Pulchric''' is one of the major proto-languages of [[Verse:Angai|Angai]] and also one of the best reconstructed.
-==Phylogeny==
-Most Pulchric languages come from the Etalocian subbranch, which descends from Proto-Etalocian (oddly named because Etalocin is the Pulchric Urheimat). There are however, a few Pulchric languages spoken in Whāso Island to the north which are a separate subfamily, and that also includes Crockartoot, spoken in Cualand.
-==Phonology==
-Proto-Pulchric has six vowels: ''a e i o u ə'', and the following consonants:
-* stops: ''p t ṭ k q b d ḍ g''
-* fricatives: ''f v s z S h''
-* resonants: ''m n N ŋ l r L w y''
-The exact realizations of ''S L N'' are not fully known in universe; the linguist Cimaterol Pradaxa reconstructed them as retroflexes, which is consistent with the Proto-Pulchric reflexes but data from Crockartoot, discovered much later, hints that these could have been palatal instead. This theory is also borne by phonotactics -- ''s l n'' do not turn into ''S L N'' before retroflex consonants, as in ''malṭə'' (presumably /maɭʈə/) "bone", and the absence of an *R corresponding to *r, even though clusters of *r and retroflexes exist.
-Vowel hiatus in Proto-Pulchric is generally rare, showing up in the directional trigger suffix ''-ao'', but consonant clusters are extremely common, as in ''pelstrə'' (bear), ''temblipsas'' (mushroom), and ''mirnutə'' (rod).

Proto-Pulchric: Difference between revisions

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