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==Phonology== | ==Phonology== | ||
===Consonants=== | ===Consonants=== | ||
The following inventory of consonants is reconstructed for | The following inventory of consonants is reconstructed for PQ. Languages such as [[Adetsib]] have the most archaic consonant inventories, whereas the [[Kammalic languages|Kammalic]] branch is the most innovative. '''m n l r''' could be syllabic. | ||
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===Suprasegmentals=== | ===Suprasegmentals=== | ||
No phonemic pitch, tone or stress existed in | No phonemic pitch, tone or stress existed in PQ. | ||
===Phonotactics=== | ===Phonotactics=== | ||
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The basic word order was V2, modifier-modified. | The basic word order was V2, modifier-modified. | ||
The morphological form of a typical | The morphological form of a typical PQ word can be described as {{sc|root}}<{{sc|infix}}>-{{sc|suffix}}-{{sc|ending}}. | ||
===Ablaut=== | ===Ablaut=== | ||
Much like in PIE, | Much like in PIE, PQ had an ablaut system where roots were inflected in different ablaut grades. The ablaut system became more complex in Quame languages as laryngeal infixes yielded new vowels. | ||
===Nominals=== | ===Nominals=== | ||
PQ did not distinguish between nouns and adjectives. They both inflected for: | |||
*5 cases: nominative, (definite) accusative, genitive, dative, predicative | *5 cases: nominative, (definite) accusative, genitive, dative, predicative | ||
*2 genders: masculine, feminine | *2 genders: masculine, feminine | ||
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On a hill, a sheep that had no wool saw horses, one of them pulling a heavy wagon, one carrying a big load, and one carrying a man quickly. The sheep said to the horses: "My heart pains me, seeing a man driving horses". The horses said: "Listen, sheep, our hearts pain us when we see this: a man, the master, makes the wool of the sheep into a warm garment for himself. And the sheep has no wool". Having heard this, the sheep fled into the plain. | On a hill, a sheep that had no wool saw horses, one of them pulling a heavy wagon, one carrying a big load, and one carrying a man quickly. The sheep said to the horses: "My heart pains me, seeing a man driving horses". The horses said: "Listen, sheep, our hearts pain us when we see this: a man, the master, makes the wool of the sheep into a warm garment for himself. And the sheep has no wool". Having heard this, the sheep fled into the plain. | ||
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