Tsimulh languages
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The Tsimulh languages are a large Trician language family mainly spoken in Taivíor. The proto-language is Proto-Tsimulh which is a Lushootseed gib (I guess it's fine here, it's just so much easier to derive from a proto-language).
Todo
- -s: past tense, genitive
- -txʷ
- -cid
- -dəb = augmentative
- Reduplication
- relativizer/relative forms for verbs
Phylogeny
- Proto-Tsimulh
Urheimat
Somewhere in Txapoalli
Phonology
Tlingit-Lushootseed hybrid gib, liquidless
Consonants
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
central | lateral | plain | labialized | plain | labialized | |||||
Nasal | m | n | ||||||||
Stop | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ | ||
voiced | b | d | g | gʷ | ||||||
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | qʼ | qʷʼ | ||||
Affricate | plain | c | ƛ | č | ||||||
voiced | z | λ | ž | |||||||
ejective | cʼ | ƛʼ | čʼ | |||||||
Fricative | s | ł | š | x | xʷ | x̌ | x̌ʷ | h | ||
Approximant | plain | l | y | w | ||||||
glottalized | lʼ | yʼ | wʼ |
l and l' are actually Eevo L and glottalized Eevo L.
Vowels
i u ə a
Stress
Penultimate.