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*** Kailtelan (extinct sister language to Kairitelan) | *** Kailtelan (extinct sister language to Kairitelan) | ||
*** [[Kairitelan]] | *** [[Kairitelan]] | ||
** Karanesa / Middle Nenta (as it appears to be the least divergent descendant of Classical Nenta to this point) | ** Karanesa / Middle Nenta (as it appears to be the least divergent descendant of Classical Nenta to this point) | ||
*** Imperial Karanesa | *** Imperial Karanesa | ||
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**** Pre-Exchange Karanesa | **** Pre-Exchange Karanesa | ||
***** New Karanesa (also called New Nenta) | ***** New Karanesa (also called New Nenta) | ||
* Old High Kanafan | |||
** Calienayan | |||
** Yudirayan | |||
* Old Low Kanafan | |||
** Citalian | |||
** Kanaskulypian | |||
==Shared characteristics== | ==Shared characteristics== | ||
Most Nentan languages share a series of plosives at the labial, alveolar, velar, and some guttural place of articulation. In Rokadong, these are /p t k ʔ/ and the voiced equivalents /b d g/. Imperial Karanesa originally lost its reflex of /ʔ/, but regained the sound through later loans (New Karanesa <q>). They also exhibit agglutinative morphology and Austronesian alignment. | |||
==Proto-Nenta== | ==Proto-Nenta== | ||
From modern and historic data on the various languages of Quillan, the language Proto-Nenta can be reconstructed. It is thought to have been spoken along the coast of the modern day Wassecola Bay, despite the name of its family being derived from the Neneta Peninsula. Proto-Nenta is usually considered to be the western dialect of Proto-Nencali, with the eastern dialect descending into the Caligan languages, such as | From modern and historic data on the various languages of Quillan, the language Proto-Nenta can be reconstructed. It is thought to have been spoken along the coast of the modern day Wassecola Bay, despite the name of its family being derived from the Neneta Peninsula. Proto-Nenta is usually considered to be the western dialect of Proto-Nencali, with the eastern dialect descending into the Caligan languages, such as Sãdenyan. | ||
Ideally, Proto-Nenta should be the ancestor of Classical Nenta and both families of Kanafan. However, given the Kanafan subfamilies only have contemporaneous attestation from late Classical Nentan/early Middle Nenta sources, the weight to place on Low and High Kanafan languages varies among different analyses. | |||
==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||