Proto-Choogo
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| Proto-Choogo | |
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| Morphological type: | synthetic |
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| Qwynegold | |
Proto-Choogo is an a posteriori language based on Japanese. It is the parent language of Shochakbẽ, Teekaabẽ, Ũlyuubẽ, Tosamabẽ, Linkōbẽ, Akabẽ, Tôbẽ, Seebẽ and Yōbẽ.
Phonology
Consonants
Below are approximate tables of the Proto-Choogo's phoneme and allophone inventory.
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Alveolar | Post-alv. | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||||||||
| Nasals | /m/ | /n/ | [ŋ] | |||||||||||||
| <m> | <n> | <n> | ||||||||||||||
| Plosives | [p] | /b/ | /t/ | /d/ | [ɟ] | /k/ | /ɡ/ | |||||||||
| <pp> | <b> | <t> | <d> | <j> | <k> | <g> | ||||||||||
| Fricatives | /f/ | /s/ | /z/ | /ʃ/ | [ç] | /h/ | ||||||||||
| <f> | <s> | <z> | <sh> | <h(y)> | <h> | |||||||||||
| Affricates | /ts/ | /tʃ/ | /dʲʒ/ | |||||||||||||
| <ts> | <ch> | <j> | ||||||||||||||
| Approximants | /j/ | |||||||||||||||
| <j> | ||||||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | /l/ | |||||||||||||||
| <l> | ||||||||||||||||
Vowels
| Vowels | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Near-front | Central | Near-back | Back | |||||||
| High | /i/ | [ɯ] | /u/ | ||||||||
| <i> | <u> | <u> | |||||||||
| Near-high | [ɪ] | [ʊ] | |||||||||
| <i> | <u> | ||||||||||
| High-mid | /e/ | [ɤ] | /o/ | ||||||||
| <e> | <o> | <o> | |||||||||
| Mid | |||||||||||
| Low-mid | [ɛ] | ||||||||||
| <e> | |||||||||||
| Near-low | |||||||||||
| Low | /ä/ | [ɑ] | |||||||||
| <a> | <a> | ||||||||||
Proto-Choogo has phonemic length for all vowels and the consonants m, n, t, s, ʃ, ts and tʃ. Both /bː/ and /hː/ are realized as [pː]. Nasalization contrast also exists for all vowels.
The syllable structure is (C)V(V)(V)(V)(C).
