Hlou-Shum languages

Hlou-Ku languages/Lexicon

The Hlou-Ku languages are a small family of languages native to Verse:Tricin/Bjeheond. Proto-Hlou-Ku is the proto-language.

Family tree

• Proto-Hlou-Ku
  • Hlou (Germanic)
  • Ku (Celtic)
  • Mois de la Crouet (Italic)
  • Liai (Balto-Slavic)
  • Shumian (Indo-Iranian)
  • Basement Greek (Greek)
  • lone polysynthetic nontonal Hlou-Ku language

Phonology

Phonotactics

(C)C[r/l]V(C)(C) + tone (?)

Initials

~30 consonants:

p t ṭ ḱ k b d ḍ ǵ g f v z s x 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

Nuclei

a e i o u ə ai au əi əu iə uə - a few more vowels for Liai

Coda

Allowed finals: just -n/-t or -ŋ/-k

Postfinal consonants (at least to account for Ku):

-x (laryngeal), -n

Tones?

2 or 3 tones?