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* PTal
* PTal
** Thensarian
** Q-Talmic
*** Tigol
*** Thensarian
**** Eevo
**** Tigol
**** Anbirese
***** Eevo
**** Ciètian
***** Anbirese
** [[Qazhrian]]
***** Ciètian
** [[Nurian]] (daughter or sister of Thens.?)
*** [[Nurian]] (daughter or sister of Thens.?)
*** [[Modern Nurian]]
**** [[Modern Nurian]] or Shalaian
** [[Roshterian]] (becomes head-initial via a different path than Tigol does)
** P-Talmic
*** [[Qazhrian]]
*** [[Roshterian]] (becomes head-initial via a different path than Tigol does)


Although all present-day Talmic languages are rigidly head-initial, Proto-Talmic was much less so; we know this because different constructions and function words (such as prepositions and verbal morphology) fossilized in each Talmic subbranch.
Although all present-day Talmic languages are rigidly head-initial, Proto-Talmic was much less so; we know this because different constructions and function words (such as prepositions and verbal morphology) fossilized in each Talmic subbranch.