Quame languages

Quame languages/Lexicon

Quame languages/Swadesh list

Quame
Naquo-Talmic
Created by	IlL
Geographic distribution	Txapoalli, Talma, Etalocin; today worldwide
Linguistic classification	One of Tricin's primary language families
Proto-language	Proto-Quame
Subdivisions	Roshtero-Talmic Naquic Aewedanoan

The Quame languages (Eevo: brits Cłem, from *kʷēm-, the reconstructed word for 1), also known as Naquo-Talmic, are a major language family in Tricin. It is well-established that that Naquic and Talmic form a Naquo-Talmic family; the relationship of other languages to Naquo-Talmic is conjectured by some but not well-established.

The Quame urheimat is surmised to be somewhere in Etalocin (the union of Clofabolocin and Dodellia).

Proto-Quame phonology is inspired by classical IE languages and Tsez.

Family tree

• Quame
  • Talmic languages (Proto-Tigolic)
  • Roshterian
  • Nurian
  • Naquian
  • Wiobian
  • Aevehāne

Phonology

Consonants

The following inventory of consonants is reconstructed for PQ and is now accepted by the majority of Trician scholars.

		Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar		Uvular		Glottal
						plain	labialized	plain	labialized
Nasal		*m	*n
Plosive	plain (unasp.)		*t	*T		*k	*kʷ	*q	*qʷ	*ʔ
	ejective		*tʼ	*Tʼ		*kʼ	*kʷʼ	*qʼ	*qʷʼ
	voiced	*b	*d	*D		*g	*gʷ	*ɢ	*ɢʷ
Fricative		*φ	*s
Resonant			*l	*r	*y /j/		*w

Vowels

	Front	Central	Back
Close	*i *ī		*u *ū
Mid	*e *ē		*o *ō
Open		*a *ā

Suprasegmentals

Stress was phonemic.

Phonotactics

Rules:

• Grassmann's Law operates in many descendants.

Grammar

Typology

No case, number + classifier marking articles, clusivity

Derivations

• -tom'- = some kind of instrument
  • -tą in Nurian
• Construct -dh in Eevo via generalizing some weird inflectional quirk?
• -tl-, -tlom = agent, instrument, participle
  • -ccią in Nurian
• -ā- = verbalizer from nouns
• -ye-, -i- = verbalizer from adjectives and verbs
• -ma- = adjective