Proto-Rajo-Faraneit: Difference between revisions
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Revision as of 01:36, 2 August 2007
Proto-Rajo-Faraneit is the language from which all other Rajo-Faraneit languages derive. This includes Faraneit, Rajat, Fórong, and several others. This language is quite nebulous and ill-defined in places due to a highly incomplete historical and linguistic record.
Phonology
| Bilabial | Labio-Dental | Dental | Alveolar | Post-Alveolar | Retroflex | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | p b | t d | k | q | |||||
| Affricate | pf bv | tθ | ts | ||||||
| Nasal | m | n | |||||||
| Fricative | f v | θ | s | x | |||||
| Approximants and Trills | r | ɻ | |||||||
| Lateral Flap | l | ɭ |
| front | back | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | |||||||
| short | long | |||||||
| close | i1 | u1 | ||||||
| close-mid | e1 | o1 | ||||||
| open-mid | ɛ | |||||||
| open | a | aː | ||||||
- /xi/ = [çi]
- /si/ = [ʃi]
- VX(V) = VY(V), where X is any unvoiced phoneme without a voiced counterpart and Y is the corresponding voiced phone
- /'e 'o 'æ/ = [e: o: æ:]
- unstressed /i u ɛ ɑ/ = [ɪ ʊ ə ɒ]
- V/i/V, V/u/V = V[j]V, V[w]V
- /#'i/, /#'u/ = [ji], [wu]
- stressed /p b t d k q/ are aspirated
