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Proto-Artenian

2025-09-21T17:28:06Z

PA-24:

{{Infobox|name=Proto-Artenian|native=Bíghe|pronounce={{IPA|[ˈbi.ɢe]}}|tu=|species=|in=Central Continent|no=0 (Dead language)|script=Not written|tree=Artenian|morph=Agglutinating|ms=Accusative alignment|wo=SVO|creator=u/PA-24|date=2025}}
Proto-Artenian was a language spoken on the northern shore of the Central Continent by the tropical seminomads. It is the mother language of the Artenian languages<ref>To be fleshed out, one conlang's addition date due Winter '25</ref>
==Phonology==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:100%; font-family:inherit;"
|- style="text-align:left;"
! colspan="2" |
! Bilabial
! Alveolar
! Velar
! Uvular
|-
! rowspan="2" | Stops
! style="text-align:left;" | Voiceless
| p
| t
| k
| q
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Voiced
| b
| d
| g
| ɢ
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Fricatives
! style="text-align:left;" | Voiceless
| ɸ
| s
| x
| χ
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Voiced
| β
| z
| ɣ
| ʁ
|}
Proto-Artenian (PAT) phonology is simple and symmetric, divided into stops and fricatives, both with voicing contrast, in four places of articulation: Bilabial, Alveolar, Velar and Uvular.
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<div style="text-align: center;">

{| style="text-align: center; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1pt solid #c0c0c0;"
!colspan=11 style="text-align:center; background: #efefef;"| Vowels
|- style="vertical-align: center; font-size: x-small; height: 2em"
| ||colspan=2| Front ||colspan=2| Near-front ||colspan=2| Central ||colspan=2| Back
|-
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| High || {{IPA|i}} || || || || || || || {{IPA|u}}
|-
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| High-mid || || || {{IPA|e}} || || || || || {{IPA|o}}
|-
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Low || || || || || {{IPA|a}}
|}

</div>
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No allophonical variation existed in the early days of the language, before any divergence occurred. Stress is always on the penultimate (second-to-last) syllable.
===Orthography===
The translitration of Proto-Artenian words follows the IPA, except in the following cases:
*{{IPA|/ɢ/}} - ⟨gh⟩
*{{IPA|/ɸ/}} - ⟨f⟩
*{{IPA|/β/}} - ⟨v⟩
*{{IPA|/ɣ/}} - ⟨y⟩
*{{IPA|/χ/}} - ⟨h⟩
*{{IPA|/ʁ/}} - ⟨r⟩
===Syllable structure===
PAT's syllable structure is similarly simple, CV(L), where L stands for "Voiceless consonant". Consonant clusters exist only intersyllabically, such as in ''ghéhghe'' {{IPA|/ˈɢeχ.ɢe/}}, "fire (NOM)"
==Grammar==
{{Main|Proto-Artenian grammar}}
PAT's words are formed by agglutination of morphemes. For example, ''safoyura'', "big", is made of 3 morphemes:
sa foyu ra
growth + RNR + ADJZ
Note that RNR means "result nominalizer", so a word X-foyu means "the result of X", and ADJZ means "adjectivizer". The word ''safoyura'', then, actually means "one who is the result of growth". Stems are nouns by default, and can be turned back to one after another derivation.
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Nouns in PTA inflect by number, animacy and cases, of which there are 2 local and 3 synctactic. Its verbs inflect on a simple and regular 3-person and 3-tenses grid. There is optional [[suffixaufnahme]].
==Notes==
<references />

Proto-Artenian

2025-09-21T16:52:33Z

PA-24: Created page with "{{Infobox|name=Proto-Artenian|native=Bíghe|pronounce={{IPA|[ˈbi.ɢe]}}|tu=|species=|in=Central Continent|no=0 (Dead language)|script=Not written|tree=Artenian|morph=Agglutinating|ms=Accusative alignment|wo=SVO|creator=u/PA-24|date=2025}} Proto-Artenian was a language spoken on the northern shore of the Central Continent by the tropical seminomads. It is the mother language of the Artenian languages<ref>To be fleshed out, one conlang's addition date due Winter '25</ref>..."

{{Infobox|name=Proto-Artenian|native=Bíghe|pronounce={{IPA|[ˈbi.ɢe]}}|tu=|species=|in=Central Continent|no=0 (Dead language)|script=Not written|tree=Artenian|morph=Agglutinating|ms=Accusative alignment|wo=SVO|creator=u/PA-24|date=2025}}
Proto-Artenian was a language spoken on the northern shore of the Central Continent by the tropical seminomads. It is the mother language of the Artenian languages<ref>To be fleshed out, one conlang's addition date due Winter '25</ref>
==Phonology==
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center; font-size:100%; font-family:inherit;"
|- style="text-align:left;"
! colspan="2" |
! Bilabial
! Alveolar
! Velar
! Uvular
|-
! rowspan="2" | Stops
! style="text-align:left;" | Voiceless
| p
| t
| k
| q
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Voiced
| b
| d
| g
| ɢ
|-
! rowspan="2" style="text-align:left;" | Fricatives
! style="text-align:left;" | Voiceless
| ɸ
| s
| x
| χ
|-
! style="text-align:left;" | Voiced
| β
| z
| ɣ
| ʁ
|}
Proto-Artenian (PAT) phonology is simple and symmetric, divided into stops and fricatives, both with voicing contrast, in four places of articulation: Bilabial, Alveolar, Velar and Uvular.
<br/>
<div style="text-align: center;">

{| style="text-align: center; background: #f9f9f9; border: 1pt solid #c0c0c0;"
!colspan=11 style="text-align:center; background: #efefef;"| Vowels
|- style="vertical-align: center; font-size: x-small; height: 2em"
| ||colspan=2| Front ||colspan=2| Near-front ||colspan=2| Central ||colspan=2| Near-back ||colspan=2| Back
|-
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| High || {{IPA|i}} || {{IPA|y}} || || || || || || || {{IPA|ɯ}} || {{IPA|u}}
|-
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Near-high || || || || || || || || {{IPA|ʊ}} || ||
|-
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| High-mid || || || {{IPA|e}} || || || || || || || {{IPA|o}}
|-
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Mid || || || || || {{IPA|ə}}
|-
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Low-mid || || || {{IPA|ɛ}} || || || || || || || {{IPA|ɔ}}
|-
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Near-low || || || {{IPA|æ}}
|-
|style="text-align: left; font-size: 95%;"| Low || || || || || {{IPA|a}}
|}

</div>

No allophonical variation existed in the early days of the language, before any divergence occurred. Stress is always on the penultimate (second-to-last) syllable.
===Syllable structure===
PAT's syllable structure is similarly simple, CV(L), where L stands for "Voiceless consonant". Consonant clusters exist only intersyllabically, such as in ''ghéhghe'' {{IPA|/ˈɢeχ.ɢe/}}, "fire (NOM)"
==Grammar==
==Notes==
<references />