Tsimulh languages
The Tsimulh-Naquic languages are a Trician language family mainly spoken in Txapoalli and Etalocin. The proto-language is Proto-Tsimulh-Naquic. Relations to other language families are unknown, though a few propose a Naquo-Quihum family.
Phylogeny
Proto-Tsimulh-Naquic |
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Urheimat
Somewhere in Txapoalli
Phonology
Salish gib
Consonants
Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | |||||
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central | lateral | plain | labialized | plain | labialized | |||||
Nasal | plain | m | n | |||||||
glottalized | mˀ | nˀ | ||||||||
Stop | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | q | qʷ | ʔ | ||
ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | qʼ | qʷʼ | ||||
Affricate | plain | ts | tɬ | tʃ? | ||||||
ejective | tsʼ | tɬʼ | tʃʼ? | |||||||
Fricative | s | ɬ | ʃ? | x | xʷ | χ | χʷ | h | ||
Approximant | plain | l | j | w | ||||||
glottalized | lˀ | jˀ | wˀ |
Vowels
i u ə a /i u ə a/
Morphology
10 noun classes
Nouns
Noun classes:
- ʔu-
- ʔəł-
- k-
- xv-
- iʔ-
- wi-
- tx-
- an-
- kw-
- n-