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[[Proto-Quihum/Lexicon]]
#redirect [[Quame languages]]
 
'''Proto-Quihum''' is the reconstructed common ancestor of all [[Quihum languages]]. It's inspired by Salish languages and Proto-Indo-European. It's thought to have been spoken 6000 years before present. The main source languages for the reconstruction of PQ are [[Ancient Wiebian]], [[Thensarian]], and [[Naquian]].
 
 
==Todo==
 
==Overview==
 
==Phonology==
===Consonants===
The following inventory of consonants is reconstructed for PQ and is now accepted by the majority of scholars.
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 700px; text-align:center;"
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! rowspan="2" colspan="2" |
! rowspan="2" |Labial
! colspan="2" |Coronal
! rowspan="2" |Palatal
! colspan="2" |Velar
! colspan="2" |Uvular
! rowspan="2" |Glottal
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! |<small>central</small>
! |<small>lateral</small>
! |<small>plain</small>
! |<small>labialized</small>
! |<small>plain</small>
! |<small>labialized</small>
|-
! colspan="2" style="" |Nasal
| '''*m'''
| '''*n'''
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! rowspan="3" |Plosive
! |<small>plain</small>
| '''*p'''
| '''*t'''
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| '''*k'''
| '''*kʷ'''
| '''*q'''
| '''*qʷ'''
| '''*ʔ'''
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! |<small>voiced/breathy</small>
| '''*b'''
| '''*d'''
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| '''*g'''
| '''*gʷ'''
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! |<small>ejective</small>
| '''*pʼ'''
| '''*tʼ'''
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| '''*kʼ'''
| '''*kʷʼ'''
| '''*qʼ'''
| '''*qʷʼ'''
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! colspan="2" style="" |Fricative
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| '''*s'''
| '''*ł''' /ɬ/
| '''*š'''
| '''*x'''
| '''*xʷ'''
| '''*x̌''' /χ/
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| '''*h'''
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! rowspan="3" colspan="1" |Affricate
! |<small>plain</small>
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| '''*c''' /ts/
| '''*ƛ''' /tɬ/
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! |<small>voiced</small>
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| '''*dᶻ''' /dz/
| '''*λ''' /dɮ/
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! |<small>ejective</small>
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| '''*cʼ''' /tsʼ/
| '''*ƛʼ''' /tɬʼ/
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! colspan="2" |Resonant
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| '''*r'''
| '''*l'''
| '''*y''' /j/
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| '''*w'''
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|}
 
===Vowels===
{| border="1" cellpadding="1" cellspacing="1" class="bluetable lightbluebg" style="width: 540px; text-align:center;"
! style="width: 90px; "|
! style="width: 90px; " |Front
! style="width: 90px; " |Central
! style="width: 90px; " |Back
|-
! style="" |Close
| '''*i ī'''
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| '''*u ū'''
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! style="" |Mid
| '''*ē'''
| '''*ə'''
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! style="" |Open
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| '''*a *ā'''
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|}
 
===Suprasegmentals===
Stress was phonemic.
 
===Phonotactics===
Rules:
*When initial reduplication occurs, glottalized initials deglottalize.
 
==Grammar==
===Typology===
The basic word order was V2, modifier-modified.
 
===Ablaut===
Much like in PIE, PQ had an ablaut system where roots (usually of 2 or 3 consonants) were inflected in different ablaut grades.
 
Ablaut grades
*''a''-grade: present tense
*''i''-grade: preterite tense
*''ə''-grade: verbal noun
*''u''-grade
*''∅''-grade: verbal noun; many derived stems
**e.g. Wiebian ''mit'' 'if, given that' < ''meiten'' 'give'
 
===Determiners===
The characteristic inflection of determiners could be a relic of an older word order where prepositions were inserted between an adjective and the following noun (cf. ''magnā cum laude'').
 
===Nominals===
Collectives were formed by reduplication (like the plural in Salish languages).
 
Nouns were divided into two genders, common and neuter.
 
===Verbs===
Verbs were conjugated for subject, object, aspect, and mood (but not for voice).
 
*Subject agreement: For each pronoun, and 3rd person gender and honorific
*Aspects: present, preterite, stative
*Moods: indicative, subjunctive, jussive, imperative
 
====TAM affixes====
 
===Tense/Agreement suffixes===
 
==Some etymologies==
 
==References==
{{reflist}}
 
[[Category:Hussmauch]][[Category:Quihum languages|*]][[Category:Proto-languages]]

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