Proto-East Mirarian [PEMN]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Proto-East Mirarian
A reconstructed Proto-language spoken approximately between 7000 and 5000 years ago in Eastern Miraria. Its descendants consist of the Mahavic, Ngeyvic, Ughmaric, Kunorvian and Elipo-Hedretic branches.
Language family relationships
Language treeEast Mirarian
⤷ Proto-East Mirarian
⤷ Proto-East Mirarian
[view] About East MirarianA large language family originating from Eastern Miraria (hence the name).
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Alveolar | Post- Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | Other | ||||||||
Nasal | m | n | (ɲ)1 | ŋ | ||||||||||||
Plosive | p2 | b3 | t4 | d5 | k6 kʷ7 | g8 gʷ9 | ||||||||||
Fricative | s | z | ʃ | x10 | h11 | |||||||||||
Affricate | t͡ʃ12 | (d͡ʒ)13 | (t͡ɬ)14 | |||||||||||||
Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
Trill | r |
- of dubious authenticity/reconstruction supported by limited evidence
- fortis, not found word initially
- lenis
- fortis
- lenis
- fortis
- fortis
- lenis
- lenis
- reconstructed variously as /x/, /ɣ/, /ħ/, /h/
- possibly /ʔ/, phonemic status disputed
- fortis, sometimes reconstructed as /c/
- lenis; possibly /dʒ ~ ɟ/; of dubious authenticity/reconstruction supported by limited evidence
- of dubious authenticity/reconstruction supported by limited evidence
Vowels | Front | Near- front | Central | Near- back | Back | |||||
Close | i | u1 | ||||||||
Near-close | ɪ2 | ʊ | ||||||||
Close-mid | o3 | |||||||||
Mid | ə4 | |||||||||
Open-mid | ɔ | |||||||||
Open | ɑ |
- sometimes reconstructed as central /ʉ/ or front /y/
- sometimes reconstructed as central /ɨ/ or back /ɯ/
- sometimes reconstructed as central /ɵ/ or front /ø/
- sometimes reconstructed as front /e/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Proto-East Mirarian. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Proto-East MirarianOrthography [edit] | ||||||||||
a/ɑ/ | b/b/1 | c/t͡ʃ/2 | ć/t͡ɬ/3 | d/d/4 | g/g/5 | gʷ/gʷ/6 | ı/ɪ/7 | i/i/ | j/d͡ʒ/8 | k/k/9 |
kʷ/kʷ/10 | l/l/ | m/m/ | ñ/ɲ/11 | n/n/ | ö/o/12 | o/ɔ/ | p/p/13 | q/h/14 | r/r/ | ś/ɬ/ |
s/s/ | š/ʃ/ | t/t/15 | u/ʊ/ | ü/u/16 | w/w/ | x/x/17 | y/j/ | z/z/ | ŋ/ŋ/ | ə/ə/18 |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- lenis
- fortis, sometimes reconstructed as /c/
- of dubious authenticity/reconstruction supported by limited evidence, loan words only
- lenis
- lenis
- lenis
- sometimes reconstructed as central /ɨ/ or back /ɯ/
- lenis; possibly /dʒ ~ ɟ/; of dubious authenticity/reconstruction supported by limited evidence, loan words only
- fortis
- fortis
- of dubious authenticity/reconstruction supported by limited evidence, loan words only
- sometimes reconstructed as central /ɵ/ or front /ø/
- fortis, not found word initially
- possibly /ʔ/, phonemic status disputed
- fortis
- sometimes reconstructed as central /ʉ/ or front /y/
- reconstructed variously as /x/, /ɣ/, /ħ/, /h/
- sometimes reconstructed as front /e/
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