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