User:Waahlis/Proto-Jivan

Based on the works and the field studies of the linguists John G. Crossing and James Mitchell, there have been many attempts to reconstruct the hypothesised Proto-Jivan language, the supposed ancestor of the Ris and Tsan languages.

Sample

Tsan

• *ɣ > ɰ
• *j > j
• *gʰ > *kʰ > k
• *g > *k > *kʲ > t͡s
• *ʈ > tr

Ris

• *ɣ > *ɰ > j
• *j > *ɕ > s
• *gʰ > *kʰ > k
• *g > k
• *ʈ > *ɽ > *ɻ > ɹ

Ajami

• *ɣ > V[+back]/ø
• *j > *dj > d
• *gʰ > gʰ
• *g > g
• *ʈ > *ʂ > ɕ