Proto-Alpianic/new
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Proto-Alpianic is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Alpianic languages, a branch of the Hesperic family, a family of diachronic conlangs by Jörg Rhiemeier.
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stops | Voiceless | Unaspirated | *p | *t | *k | ||
| Aspirated | *p' | *t' | *k' | ||||
| Voiced | Unaspirated | *b | *d | *g | |||
| Aspirated | *b' | *d' | *g' | ||||
| Fricatives | *s | *h | |||||
| Nasals | *m | *n | *ng | ||||
| Laterals | *l | *l' | |||||
| Rhotics | *r | *r' | |||||
| Semivowels | *w | *j | *3 | ||||
The phoneme *l' probably was a velarized lateral /ł/; *r' probably was a uvular rhotic /ʀ/. *3, which was rare, probably was an unrounded velar approximant /ɰ/. *h, like *l', *r' and *3 an outcome of Drummond's Law, probably originally was velar, but all Alpianic languages that preserve it do so as a glottal fricative.
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Close | *i | *u | |
| Mid | *e | *o | |
| Open | *a |
