Proto-Pulchric

Phonology

Consonants

		Labial		Coronal		Palatal	Dorsal		Laryngeal
		plain	phar.	plain	phar.		plain	phar.
Nasal		m /m/	M /mˁ/	n /n/	N /nˁ/		ng /ŋ/	NG /ɴ/
Stop	tenuis	p /p/	P /pˁ/	t /t/	T /tˁ/		k /k/	q /q/
	voiced	b /b/	B /bˁ/	d /d/	D /dˁ/		g /ɡ/	G /ɢ/
Fricative									h /h/
Trill/Tap				r /ɾ/	R /ɾˁ/
Approximant		w /w/		l /l/	L /lˁ/	y /j/

Every consonant except /w j h/ can occur geminated between vowels.

Vowels

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i /i/	i: /iː/			u /u/	u: /uː/
Mid	e /e/	e: /eː/			o /o/	o: /oː/
Open			a /a/	a: /aː/

Diphthongs: /ai/ /au/ (written ai au respectively)

Phonotactics

Only CV syllables are allowed, except:

• a geminate consonant can begin a non-initial syllable (gemination is indicated in the orthography by doubling the consonant letter; geminate ng and NG are written nng and NNG respectively)
• CVC is allowed as the last syllable

Stress

Stress is almost always on the first long syllable, or if no syllable is long, the last syllable in the Rencadic dialect and the first syllable in the Luminese dialect.

Morphology

Proto-Pulchric has an extremely simple morphology, almost completely isolating.

Nouns

Baira "leaf"	Singular	Plural
Nominative	Baira	Baira emmi
Accusative	Baira ta	Baira emmi ta
Genitive	Baira i	Baira emmi i

Proto-Pulchric has other postpositions as well: mi (in), ro (with), po (like), ...

Verbs

qi:To- "to think"	Singular	Plural
First person	qi:Ton	qi:Tome
Second person	qi:Tod	qi:Tote
Third person	qi:Tob	qi:Towa

Proto-Pulchric often uses verbal nouns, which use the suffix -a:t or -or depending on the verb.

Verbs do not inflect for tense in general. There are a few exceptions though. The copula 'to be' inflects as follows in the present tense:

"to be"	Singular	Plural
First person	qor	qore
Second person	qod	qote
Third person	qob	qowa

In the past tense:

"to be"	Singular	Plural
First person	pem	peme
Second person	pen	pet:e
Third person	pem	pewa

In the future tense:

"to be"	Singular	Plural
First person	ki:nan	ki:name
Second person	ki:nad	ki:nate
Third person	ki:nab	ki:nawa