Old Ynju

Old Ynju
Yndu
"Yndu" in Mittaalo-Tenghinic script
Created by	Chuvachok1234
Language family	Mittaali Ynju-Wenth Old Ynju

Old Ynju (also called Old Mitaal) is a language from Mittaali language family, which is an ancestor of two languages: Ynju and Mitaal

Phonology

Consonants

Old Ynju Had usual inventory for an Mittaali language, featuring only 17 phonemic consonants.

Consonant phonemes

	Labial	Dental	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	m	n
Stop	p pː (b)	t tː (d)	tʃ	k kː (g)
Fricative	f	s	ʃ	x
Trill		r
Approximant	w	l	j

Vowels

Old Ynju had 8 vowels, not unlike Ynju and Mitaal. 7 can occur either short or long and 8th vowel, /ø/ could only be long

Vowel phonemes

	Front	Back
Close	i iː y yː	u uː
Mid	e eː øː	o oː
Open	a aː

Development from Proto-Ynju-Wenth

Old Ynju features palatalisation of sequences *tj, *kj and *sj to t͡ʃ and ʃ. Proto-Ynju-Wenth stops *p *t *k lenited to [b], [d] and [g] intervocalicly, with [b] and [g] leniting to [w] and [j] respectivly when they are near a sonorant. In Ynju b d and g lenited further into [β], [j] and [h]. Geminated stops are retained in Ynju but became degeminated in Mitaal, making voicing phonemic. PYW *ʂ became ʃ everywhere. Sequences of a semivowel + vowel and vowel + semivowel monophtongised:

Proto-Ynju-Wenth	Old Ynju	Envoirement
aj	eː	_{C, #}
ja	e	{C, #}_
aw	oː	_{C, #}
wa	o	{C, #}_
iw, uj	yː	_{C, #}
wi, ju	y	{C, #}_
ajwa, awja	øː	Any

Grammar

Old Ynju is an very regular, SVO head-initial, agglutinative language, much like other Mittaali languages. Nouns follow Nominative-Accusative alignment and verbs are conjugated for mood, voice, tense and aspect.