Flei

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Phonology

• Stops: p t c k q /p t tʂ~c k q/
• Fricatives: f þ s x h /f θ s ʂ~ɧ h/
• Resonants: m n l rr r w y /m n l r ɹ w j/
• Vowels: a e i u ë /ä e i u ə/

Stress

Proto-Corded Ware had no strong stress.

Phonotactics

Only slightly less restrictive than Tamil; more restrictive than Latin

Proto-CW often added enunciative vowels to words ending in consonants, so for example *isqal 'child (nom.)' often became *isqallë.

Grammar

• SVO or SOV
• Both prefixing and suffixing
• cases and Suffixaufnahme; not Altaic
• stem changes in nouns (like Uralic)
• polypersonal verbs
• aspect rather than tense
• mood inflections for verbs

Pronouns

1st pers. *t, 2nd pers. *p

Nouns

Corded Ware had suffixes for noun cases; however there was no separate accusative case.

Plurals were often (usually?) marked by stem change.

Declension of *isqal = child

• nominative: isqal(lë), esqal(lë)
• genitive: isqalef, esqalef
• locative
• adessive
• ablative
• allative
• instrumental
• comitative
• essive
• translative
• vocative

Verbs

Verbs had the following template:

object-STEM-aspect-subject-mood

Aspects

• fanhu-t = 'I called' (perfective)
• fanhu-rra-t = 'I often calls/used to call' (habitual)
• fanhu-kë-t = 'I am/was calling' (progressive)

Personal

Subject:

• tërrë-0-t = 'I stood'
• tërrë-0-p = '2sg stood'
• tërrë-0-0 = '3sg stood'
• tërrë-0-ntë = 'we stood'
• tërrë-0-mpë = '2pl stood'
• tërrë-0-lë = 'they stood'

Object (for transitives)

• të-fanhu-0 = '3sg called me'
• pë-fanhu-0 = '3sg called 2sg'
• në-fanhu-0 = '3sg called 3sg'
• tul-fanhu-0 = '3sg called us'
• pul-fanhu-0 = '3sg called 2pl'
• nël-fanhu-0 = '3sg called them'