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==Family tree== | ==Family tree== | ||
*Proto-Hlou-Ku | *Proto-Hlou-Ku | ||
**[[Hlou]] ( | **[[Hlou]] (''Schlaub'') | ||
**[[Ku]] ( | **[[Ku]] (''Kuamh'') | ||
**[[Clooa]] ( | **[[Clooa]] (''Mois de la Crouet'') | ||
**[[Liai]] ( | **[[Liai]] (''hmý Liài'') | ||
**[[Shumian]] | **[[Shumian]] | ||
**[[Tlu]] ( | **[[Tlu]] (''χμωωβ Τλωδ'') | ||
**[[Boaqaihoo]] (lone polysynthetic nontonal Hlou-Ku language) | **[[Boaqaihoo]] (lone polysynthetic nontonal Hlou-Ku language) | ||
Revision as of 02:36, 1 March 2018
The Hlou-Ku languages are a small family of languages native to Verse:Tricin/Bjeheond. Proto-Hlou-Ku is the proto-language. The family is based on the idea of IE languages recast as Hmong-like languages. Hlou-Ku languages had much more importance in the past, but today Tsjoen, Wiobian and Rhythoed are more dominant in Bjeheond.
Family tree
- Proto-Hlou-Ku
Phonology
Phonotactics
(unstressed prefix) + (C)C[r/l]V(C)(C) + tone (?)
Unstressed prefixes were lost in some descendants, such as Ku.
Initials
~30 consonants:
p t ṭ ḱ k ʔ b d ḍ ǵ g f v z s x h tz ts tx dz ds dx m n ṇ ń y r l w (z, s as in Basque)
s-series > ɬ-series in some descendants
Ku and Clooa gain uvulars through velars + r/l.
Nuclei
a e i o u ə ai au əi əu iə uə - a few more vowels for Liai
Hlou will merge ai/au with əi/əu > lots of ei/au! <3
Coda
Allowed finals: just -ŋ, -k, -h, -ʔ
Postfinal consonants: -əx (laryngeal), -ən → lenition, eclipsis in Ku
Tones
2 or 3 tones