Lakovic languages
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- Not to be confused with Lahob languages.
Phylogeny
Proto-Lakovic phonology
| Labial | Dental | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m /m/ | n /n/ | ŋ /ŋ/ | ||||
| Plosive | plain | p /p/ | t /t/ | k /k/ | ʔ /ʔ/ | ||
| voiced | b /b/ | d /d/ | g /g/ | ||||
| aspirated | φ /pʰ/ | θ /tʰ/ | χ /kʰ/ | ||||
| Fricative | s /s/ | ś /ɬ/ | š /ʃ/ | h /h/ | |||
| Affricate | c /ts/ | ć /tɬ/ | č /tʃ/ | ||||
| Approximant | w /w/ | r /r/, l /l/ | y /j/ | ||||
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | i /i/ | ü /ÿ/ | u /u/ |
| Mid | e /e/ | o /o/ | |
| Open | a /a/ |
Breathy voice/low tone vowels are spelled with a grave accent: à è ì ò ù ǜ > Wdm. a ea ie oa ua üe
Maybe Tsrovesh gets extra consonants and Windermere gets extra vowels. Figure out how to get Literalirish.
Explain frequency of Tíogallish clusters in Terg and Windermere.
Get vowel length in Terg. Laryngeals?
Proto-Lakovic morphology
Nouns
Proto-Lakovic had two genders: masculine and feminine. The feminine was marked with -i.