Archeoproton

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Archeoproton must follow Greenberg's Linguistic Universals, the Kiki-Buba Effect, and different forms of sound symbolism. Then 12 daughter languages are generated using different morphosyntactic formats.


Grammar

nouns/adjectives are left unmarked; verbs and other word classes take /a/.


ia "to be" im "container" > ima "to close" mu "cave" > muan "inside the cave"

nirgi "man" -negari -glain milbu "woman" -melo -bua

ni nose/penis/man, nu mountain/tree <> in content/cleft, un abyss mi mouth/vagina/woman, mu cave <> im container, um enclosure n- outside <> -n inside m- open <> -m closed na "outside" an "inside" p soft bu round

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