Old Swuntsim
Old Swuntsim was the ancient Tsimulh language spoken by the Swutsim people. It is still often used as a liturgical language among religious Swutsim.
Descendants:
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| central | lateral | plain | labialized | plain | labialized | |||||
| Nasal | m~ṽ | n~ð̃ | ||||||||
| Stop | plain | p | t | k | kʷ | ʔ | ||||
| voiced | b | d | g | gʷ | ||||||
| ejective | pʼ | tʼ | kʼ | kʷʼ | ||||||
| Affricate | plain | c | ξ | č | ||||||
| voiced | z | ž | ||||||||
| ejective | cʼ | ξʼ | čʼ | |||||||
| Fricative | s | σ | š | xʷ | ħ | ħʷ | h | |||
| Approximant | y | w | ʕ | ʕʷ | ||||||
Grammar
Noun class system got weird - formal noun classes remain but the words semantically shift as in Sanskrit