Tanisi languages

Attamian
Neumato-Attian
Created by	–
Geographic distribution	Western Asia
Linguistic classification	language isolate Attamian
Proto-language	Proto-Attamian
Subdivisions	Attian Damian Namic
Proportion of the Attamian ethnic groups that speaks an Attamian language:   0–20%   20–40%   40–60%   60–70%   70-80%

Attamian (/aˈtɛɪ̯mi̩ɘn/; also Neumato-Attian, Attno-Manathi, Attian,) is a Caucasian language family which includes at least the Attnic languages, Namic, and Garathi languages.

In November 2012 a proposal connecting Attnic to the Neumatic languages of Western Iran into the Attamian family was published and well received by a number of linguists. The family's relation to Caucasian and Indo-European language families remain controversal, but persists - mostly due to the number of loan words in the language family.

General Information

The Attamian languages is a family, or group, of constructed naturalistic languages, which share common features derived the hypothetic Proto-Attamian language. They are inspired by a diversity of natural languages, each of them with a distinct style, yet with grammatical and semantical similarities, as well as a shared vocabulary.

These are the planned Attamian languages so far:

• Attian - Armeno-Arabic inspired language with an active-stative alignment and nonconcatenative morphology. Originally an attempt at uniting Celtic and Arabic.
• Damian - A so far sketchy language with Greek/Slavic/Shona/Khmer influences. Possibly ergative, maybe accusative. Mangled by allophony.
• Namic - Indo-European and especially Indo-Iranian influenced language, tripartite, heavy in phonemes, heavy in cases and heavy in scope. A language revised from being a mixed a priori - a posteriori language of the Indo-Iranian branch.

Attamian attributes

• A by origin nonconcatenative morphology. Not present in the Namic language.

• Basic vocabulary expressed in roots, marked: √

• Secondary fusional morphology. High degree of affixation in all languages. Varying degree of cases.
• An inherited tonal system - moraic stress in Attian, tone in Damian and pitch in Namic.

• khāna = /ˈkʰaːna/ = [ˈkʰa͜ánā]

• Medium-to-large phoneme inventory.

Genealogy

Proto-Attamian	Attno-Damian Attnic Ancient Attian Sengani Middle Attian Attian Hayani Manatho-Damian† Ancient Damian Damian Manathi Neumatic Central Ancient Namic Rayan Middle Namic Namic Southern Parsi Garathi

• A language in bold denotes that it is extant.
• A language in italics denotes that it is now extinct (i.e. has no native speakers).
• † denotes the extinction of a linguistic subgroup

Attno-Damian languages

Attnic languages

Sound changes

• Müller's law

*p → kʷ → kw → k͡p

*b → ɡʷ → ɡw → ɡ͡b

*m → ŋʷ → ŋw → ŋ͡m

• Crossing's law
  • First law of Crossing

*tʷ → tʍ → t

*kʷ → kʍ → k

*ɡʷ → ɡw → ɣw → w (through intermediary ɰ)

• Second law of Crossing

*tʰ → θ

*kʰ → x

*ɡʰ → ɡ

Examples:

• Proto-Attamian *tʰn → Attian thana