Camalic

Urheimat: Lõis's Afghanistan

Proto-Camalic had the following phonemes:

• a i u ā ī ū ai au ia ua
• p b t d ts k g m n ŋ s θ~ʂ z ð~ʐ ɬ l r w y h
• contrastive stød

Proto-Camalic was most likely SOV.

Morphology

Proto-Camalic had three grammatical genders:

• animate
• inanimate
• caland

The caland gender was made up of nouns that resulted from nominalized participles and adjectives. Abstract nouns are usually caland.

There were also three grammatical cases: agentive/instrumental, patientive and genitive. The agentive case was marked with the particle *la~li (believed to be cognate with Semitic *li- "to" and Indo-European *-(t/dʰ)lom ~ *-(t/dʰ)lis). In L-Arabic that evolved into a prefix a- ~ al-. The genitive case was marked with the particle *i. In Central Camalic (e.g. An Bhlaoighne and L-Arabic), influenced by Indo-European and Semitic languages, the case particles are preposed while in Peripheral Camalic (e.g. Padmanābha), the particles evolved into suffixes in a more typically Eurasian nom-acc system.

Proto-Camalic also had an extensive array of derivational affixes.