Eta-Talmic
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Phonology
Consonants
| Proto-Talmic reconstructed consonants (Guānitzhūtł) | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Labial | Alveolar | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Labiovelar | Uvular | Labiouvular | Glottal | ||
| Nasal | *m | *n | ||||||||
| Plosive | voiceless | *t | *k | *kʷ | *q | *qʷ | *ʔ | |||
| voiced | *b | *d | *g | *gʷ | ||||||
| Fricative | voiceless | *ɸ | *s | *ł | *h | |||||
| voiced | *ʁ | *ʁʷ | ||||||||
| Resonant | *r | *l | *j | *w | ||||||
Vowels
TODO: find plausible intermediates between PQ and Thensarian vowels
a e i o u y ā ē ī ō ū ȳ
Diphthongs:
ai ei oi ui au eu iu ou
āi ēi ōi ūi āu ēu īu ōu
Thensarian reflexes
- *a > o
- *ax̌, əx̌, ax̌ʷ > ā
- *aʔ, əx̌ʷ > ō
- *ə > e
- *i > i
- *u > u
- *ay > ȳ
- *əy > ae
- *uy > ui
- *iy, iʔ, ix > ī
- *aw > ao
- *əw > iō
- *iw > iū
- *uʔ, ux, uw > ū
- *Cx̌, Cx̌ʷ > Ca
- *Cxʷ > Co
- *Cx > Cy
- *əʔ, əx, ix̌ > ē
- or *ix̌ > iā/ia/ea?
- *ux̌, x̌u > ō
- *axʷ, ax̌ʷ > ao
- *ix̌ʷ > iō
- *ux̌ʷ > ō
- *iyx̌, iyx̌ʷ > iā
- *əyx̌, əyx̌ʷ > eā
- *iy(ə)x > iē