Old Ynju

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Old Ynju
Yndu
Old Ynju Mittalo-Tenghinic Syllabary.png
"Yndu" in Tenghino-Mittaalic script
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Old Ynju (also called Old Mitaal) is a language from Mittaali language family, which is an ancestor of two languages: Ynju and Mitaal

Phonology

Consonants

Old Ynju Had usual inventory for an Mittaali language, featuring only 17 phonemic consonants.

Consonant phonemes
Labial Dental Palatal Velar
Nasal m n
Stop p pː (b) t tː (d) k kː (g)
Fricative f s ʃ x
Trill r
Approximant w l j

Vowels

Old Ynju had 8 vowels, not unlike Ynju and Mitaal. 7 can occur either short or long and 8th vowel, /ø/ could only be long

Vowel phonemes
Front Back
Close i iː y yː u uː
Mid e eː øː o oː
Open a aː

Development from Proto-Ynju-Wenth

Old Ynju features palatalisation of sequences *tj, *kj and *sj to t͡ʃ and ʃ. Proto-Ynju-Wenth stops *p *t *k lenited to [b], [d] and [g] intervocalicly, with [b] and [g] leniting to [w] and [j] respectivly when they are near a sonorant. In Ynju b d and g lenited further into [β], [j] and [h]. Geminated stops are retained in Ynju but became degeminated in Mitaal, making voicing phonemic. PYW *ʂ became ʃ everywhere. Sequences of a semivowel + vowel and vowel + semivowel monophtongised:

Proto-Ynju-Wenth Old Ynju Envoirement
aj _{C, #}
ja e {C, #}_
aw _{C, #}
wa o {C, #}_
iw, uj _{C, #}
wi, ju y {C, #}_
ajwa, awja øː Any

Grammar

Old Ynju is an very regular, SVO head-initial, agglutinative language, much like other Mittaali languages. Nouns follow Nominative-Accusative alignment and verbs are conjugated for mood, voice, tense and aspect.