The Proto Malayo Polynesianlanguage PMP is the linguistic reconstruction reconstructed ancestor of the Malayo Polynesian languages , which is by far the largest branch of the Austronesian languages Austronesian language family . Proto Malayo Polynesian is ancestral to all Austronesian languages spoken outside Taiwan , with the possible exception of the Tai Kadai languages if the hypothesis that Tai Kadai is descended from proto Austronesian but not from Malayo Polynesian is true see Austro Tai languages . See also Proto Austronesian language External links http language.psy.auckland.ac.nz austronesian language.php?id 269 ABVD Proto Malayo Polynesian http www.webcitation.org query?url http www.geocities.com Tokyo 8908 firemount austroframes.html&date 2009 10 25 11 31 10 A Comparison of Austronesian Languages WebCite query result Category Austronesian languages Category Proto languages Malayo Polynesian Au lang stub ... more details
Refimprove date November 2008 ProtoPolynesian , abbreviated PPN , is the hypothetical protolanguage from which all the modern Polynesian languages descend. historical linguistics Historical linguists have reconstructed the language using the comparative method , in much the same manner as with Proto Indo European languageProto Indo European and Proto Uralic languageProto Uralic . This same method ... IPA , not IPA r . class wikitable colspan 10 Polynesian vocabulary ProtoPolynesian Tongan language ... homeland of the people who spoke ProtoPolynesian was in the vicinity of Tonga, Samoa, and nearby ... pages 99 119 coauthors Roger Green ref Phonology The phonology of ProtoPolynesian is very simple ... consonant Trill IPA r Lateral consonant Lateral IPA l Semivowel Glide IPA w Vowels ProtoPolynesian ... pages 31 ref Sound correspondences class wikitable style text align center colspan 4 ProtoPolynesian ... rowspan 4 IPA k IPA colspan 2 Tikopia language Tikopian IPA colspan 2 IPA colspan 2 Nukuoro language Nukuoroan IPA IPA h colspan 2 IPA l colspan 2 Rapa Nui language Rapa Nui IPA IPA v h IPA h colspan 2 IPA colspan 2 Proto Eastern Polynesian IPA p IPA t IPA k IPA IPA m IPA n ... woman IPA matuqa ref group N Glottal stop is represented as q in reconstructed ProtoPolynesian words ... references group N References reflist references Category Polynesian languages Category Proto languages Polynesian au lang stub it Lingua proto polinesiaca la Lingua Proto Polynesia ... rowspan 17 width 8 colspan 3 Tongan language Tongan rowspan 3 IPA p rowspan 3 IPA t rowspan 3 IPA k ... 2 IPA h rowspan 3 IPA l rowspan 2 IPA colspan 3 Niuean language Niuean IPA colspan 3 ? IPA IPA h IPA h IPA l colspan 3 Proto Nuclear Polynesian IPA p IPA t IPA k IPA IPA m IPA n IPA IPA w IPA f IPA s IPA colspan 2 IPA l rowspan 13 width 8 colspan 2 Samoan language S moan rowspan ... 3 IPA IPA v IPA ? v IPA rowspan 7 IPA colspan 2 IPA Tuamotuan language Tuamotuan IPA v IPA ... more details
of a few words. All the proto languages are hypothetical, or reconstructed languages however sometimes documentation is found that supports their former existence. A protolanguage alternatively known as a parent language , or common ancestor in the tree model of historical linguistics is a hypothetical, or reconstructed, typically extinct language from which a number of attested, or documented, known languages are believed to have descended by evolution, or slow modification of the protolanguage ... and verification of proto languages Typically, the protolanguage is not known directly. It is by definition ... accepted proto languages are Proto Indo European languageProto Indo European , Proto Uralic languageProto Uralic , and Proto Dravidian languageProto Dravidian . In rare instances compared .... For example, Latin is the protolanguage of the Romance languages Romance language family, which includes ... of an unattested protolanguage was August Schleicher he did so for Proto Indo European language ..., in the case of Proto Indo European languageProto Indo European and Pre Indo European likewise for Proto Germanic languageProto Germanic and Germanic Parent Language Pre Germanic . As Pre X ... Pre Proto X is sometimes used, for a stage older than the last common ancestor of the attested language ... method Internal reconstruction Historical linguistics Proto Human language References reflist ... Category Proposed language families Category Historical linguistics Category Proto languages ... pt Protol ngua rmy Angluni chhib ru simple Protolanguage sk Prajazyk fi Kantakieli sv ... linguistics. The proto languages stand at the branch points, or nodes 15, 6, 20 and 7. The leaf languages, or end points, are 2, 5, 9 and 31. The root language is 15. By convention, the Proto languages are named Proto 5 9, Proto 2 5 9 and Proto 31, or Common 5 9, etc. The overall Ursprache has a proto name reflecting the ordinary name of the entire family, such as Germanic, Italic, etc ... more details
have also been made, and include Proto Malayo PolynesianlanguageProto Malayo Polynesian , Proto Oceanic languageProto Oceanic , and ProtoPolynesianlanguageProtoPolynesian . Recently, linguists such as Malcolm Ross and Andrew Pawley have built large lexicons for Proto Oceanic and ProtoPolynesian ... PolynesianlanguageProto Malayo Polynesian , Proto Oceanic languageProto Oceanic , and ProtoPolynesianlanguageProtoPolynesian , the phonemic inventories were continually reduced by merging formerly ... Polynesian transition, while 9 were observed for the Proto Oceanic languageProto Oceanic to ProtoPolynesianlanguageProtoPolynesian transition. Thus, Proto Austronesian has the most elaborate sound system, while ProtoPolynesian has the least phonemes. For instance, the Hawaiian language is famous ... 43, Number 2, December 2004, pp. 365 410. ref ProtoPolynesianlanguageProtoPolynesian l and r ... Polynesian w or b Sundanese c or nc Syntax Word order Proto Austronesian is a verb initial language ... refend See also Proto Malayo PolynesianlanguageProto Oceanic languageProtoPolynesianlanguage ...The Proto Austronesian language PAN is the linguistic reconstruction reconstructed ancestor of the Austronesian ... only for Proto Rukai and Proto Malayo Polynesian, but not any of the previous three groups. However ... reconstructable outside of Proto Malayo Polynesian. Furthermore, while he believes that was a general innovation in Proto Malayo Polynesian, c and z are reflected differently from PMP Proto ... reduction from the 25 consonants of the Proto Austronesian language that was originally spoken in Taiwan ... Proto Austronesian and Proto Malayo Polynesian. ref name Blust09 class wikitable Proto Austronesian and br Proto Malayo Polynesian Sound Changes c 02 Proto Austronesian c 03 Proto Malayo Polynesian ... to Wolff 2010 241 , Proto Malayo Polynesian s development from Proto Austronesian only included the following three sound changes. PAn PMP , l, n PAn s PMP h PAn h PMP Proto Oceanic language ... more details
A protolanguage is a hypothetical or reconstructed language from which a number of known languages are believed to have descended in historical linguistics. Protolanguage may also refer to Protolanguage glottogony , primitive language like systems or forms of communication posited in theories of the origin of languageProto Human language , a hypothetical ancestor of all the world s languages Musical protolanguage , a theory of the origins of music and vocal communication See also Category Proto languages disambig ... more details
Proto Nahuan is the hypothetical daughter language of the Proto Uto Aztecan language which is the common ancestor from which the modern Nahuatl Nahuan languages have developed. Some phonological changes shared by all Nahuan languages are cellpadding 4 cellspacing 0 style margin 1em auto 1em auto style background efefef Proto Uto Aztecan t becomes Proto Nahuan lateral affricate IPA t before Proto Uto Aztecan a ref Dakin 1982 , pp. 25, 67 8 ref PUA ta ka man becomes PN tla ka tla man Proto Uto Aztecan initial p is lost in Proto Nahuan. ref Voegelin, Voegelin & Hale 1962 ref PUA pahi water becomes PN a tla water Proto Uto Aztecan u merges with i into Proto Nahuan i ref Langacker 1977 , p. 23 ref PUA muki to die becomes PN miki to die Proto Uto Aztecan sibilants ts and s split into ts, ch and s, IPA respectively. ref Dakin 1982 , p. 51 62 ref Proto Uto Aztecan fifth vowel reconstructed as IPA or IPA merged with e into Proto Nahuan e ref Langacker 1977 , p. 23 ref PUA IPA n mi to walk becomes PN nemi to live, to walk a large number of Metathesis linguistics metatheses in which Proto Uto Aztecan roots of the shape CVCV have become VCCV. ref Dakin 1982 , p. 62 3 ref PUA pu li to tie becomes PN ilpi to tie Morphology The hypothetical Proto Nahuan is hypothetically an agglutinative language, where words use suffix complexes for a variety of purposes with several morpheme s strung together. notes reflist 2 DEFAULTSORT Nahuan, Proto Nahuan, Language Category Agglutinative languages Category Uto Aztecan languages Category Proto languages Uto Aztecan na lang stub ... more details
Proto Eskimo was the ancestor of all the Eskimo Aleut languages Eskimo languages . A linguistic reconstruction reconstruction of the Proto Eskimo sound system can be found in Fortescue et al. 1994 xi. References Fortescue, Michael, Steven Jacobson, and Lawrence Kaplan. 1994. Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates. Alaska Native Language Center. See also Proto Eskimo Aleut language Eskimo Aleut languages DEFAULTSORT Proto Eskimo Language Category Agglutinative languages Category Proto languages Eskimo Category Eskimo Aleut languages lang stub ... more details
Proto Eskimo Aleut was the common ancestor of the Eskimo Aleut languages Eskimo languages and Aleut language Aleut . Its existence is known through similarities in Eskimo and Aleut. The existence of Proto Eskimo Aleut is generally accepted among linguistics linguists . It was for a long time true that no linguistic reconstruction of Proto Eskimo Aleut had yet been produced, as stated by Allan R. Bomhard Bomhard 2008 209 . Such a reconstruction was offered by Knut Bergsland in 1986. Michael Fortescue 1998 124 125 has offered another version of this system, largely based on the reconstruction of Proto Eskimo languageProto Eskimo in the Comparative Eskimo Dictionary he co authored with Steven Jacobson and Lawrence Kaplan 1994 xi . Possible relation to other language families There are no generally accepted relations between Proto Eskimo Aleut and other language families. A substantial case for a genetic relationship between Proto Eskimo Aleut and several languages of northern Eurasia was published by Michael Fortescue in 1998 in Language Relations across Bering Strait see Uralo Siberian languages . References Knut Bergsland Bergsland, Knut . 1986. Comparative Eskimo Aleut phonology and lexicon. Journal de la Soci t finno ougrienne 80 63 137. Bomhard, Allan R. 2008. Reconstructing Proto Nostratic Comparative Phonology, Morphology, and Vocabulary , 2 volumes. Leiden Brill. Fortescue, Michael, Steven Jacobson, and Lawrence Kaplan. 1994. Comparative Eskimo Dictionary with Aleut Cognates. Alaska Native Language Center. Fortescue, Michael. 1998. Language Relations across Bering Strait Reappraising the Archaeological and Linguistic Evidence. London and New York Cassell. Eskimo Aleut languages Category Proto languages Eskimo Aleut Category Eskimo Aleut languages lang stub ... more details
Infobox language name Proto Kra nativename region Southern China , br Northern Vietnam era familycolor Tai Kadai notice IPA The Proto Kra language is the linguistic reconstruction reconstructed ancestor of the Kra languages . It was reconstructed in 2000 by Weera Ostapirat in his Ph.D. dissertation. Lower level reconstructions Ostapirat 2000 provided preliminary phonological reconstructions for several lower level groupings before attempting a reconstruction of Proto Kra. Proto Kra Proto South Western Kra Proto Western Kra Gelao, Lachi Proto Southern Kra Laha Proto Central East Kra Proto Central Kra Paha Proto Eastern Kra Buyang, Qabiao Phonology Consonants Proto Kra has a total of 32 consonants ... colspan 2 IPA o align center colspan 2 Open vowel Open colspan 2 colspan 2 IPA a colspan 2 Proto Kra has 4 diphthong s, which are not found in closed syllable s. ai a ui au Tones Proto Kra had an A B C D tonal system typical of other Tai Kadai languages see Proto Tai language Tones . The tonal descriptions ... short medium See also Proto Tai languageProto Hlai languageProto Austronesian language Austro ... Proto Kra Consonants colspan 2 Labial consonant Labial colspan 2 Alveolar consonant Alveolar ... Rhotic colspan 2 colspan 2 r colspan 2 colspan 2 colspan 2 colspan 2 colspan 2 Vowels Proto Kra ... text align center width 30 Proto Kra Vowels colspan 2 Height colspan 2 Front vowel Front colspan 2 ... Kra languages except for Qabiao language Qabiao . C C is usually accompanied by glottal constriction ... table of phonetic characteristics of Proto Kra tones was adapted from Ostapirat 2000 237 . class wikitable Proto Kra Tonal Characteristics align center A B C D align center Type of final ... Proto Kra . Linguistics of the Tibeto Burman Area 23 1 1 251. External links http language.psy.auckland.ac.nz austronesian language.php?id 690 ABVD Proto Kra word list Tai Kadai languages Category Kra languages Category Proto languages Kra ... more details
Refimprove date November 2006 Proto Iranian , is the Linguistic reconstruction reconstructed protolanguage of the Iranian languages branch of Indo European language family, and as such, the ancestor of the Iranian languages such as Persian language Persian , Sogdian language Sogdian , Zazaki , Mazandarani language Mazandarani , Kurdish language Kurdish and others. Its speakers, the hypothetical Proto Iranians , are assumed to have lived in the early 2nd millennium BC , and are usually connected with the Proto Indo Iranians and early Andronovo archaeological horizon. Proto Iranian was a Satem language descended from the Proto Indo Iranian language, which in turn came from the Proto Indo European language . It was likely removed less than a millennium from the Avestan language, and less than two millennia from PIE. Proto Indo European and Indo Iranian Phonological Correspondences class wikitable IPA border 1 colspan 2 Proto Indo European language PIE Avestan language Av PIE Av p p p h? sub a sub ter father pi tar father b b b r h sub a sub ter brother b ratar brother t t t uh sub x sub m thou t v?m thou d d d oru wood d ar wood d d d oh sub x sub neh sub a sub grain d ana grain k s d k m? ten da s a ten g z g nu knee z anu knee g z g im s cold z ?maka winterstorm k x c kr uh sub a sub r s bloody x rura bloody g g z h sub a sub u g es strength ao j ah strength g g z dl?h sub x sub g s long dar? g a long k k c k s who k o who g g j g ou cow g au cow class wikitable Proto Indo Iranian Avestan language Avestan ref name Skjaervo cite book title An Introduction to Young Avestan year 2003 last Skj rv first Prods Oktor pages Glossary url http www.fas.harvard.edu iranian Avesta index.html ref Old Persian Vedic Sanskrit a va horse aspa asa native word ref name Fortson cite book title Indo European language and Culture An Introduction year 2004 last Fortson ... Category Proto languages Iranian fa ... more details
Proto Dravidian is the protolanguage of the Dravidian languages . It is thought to have differentiated into Proto North Dravidian, Proto Central Dravidian and Proto South Dravidian around 500 BC, Citation needed date July 2011 although some linguists Who date July 2011 have argued that the degree of differentiation between the sub families points to an earlier split. As a protolanguage, Proto Dravidian has been reconstructed and is not itself found in the historical record. Due to a dearth of comparative linguistics comparative linguistic research in Dravidian studies , Dubious date July 2011 not many details as to the grammar, epoch, or location of Proto Dravidian are known. ref cite news url http www.hindu.com fline fl2022 stories 20031107000807300.htm location Chennai, India work The Hindu title Facts about Dravidian languages , review of The Dravidian Languages by Bhadriraju Krishnamurti Cambridge University Press, Cambridge South Asian edition , 2003. ref Failed verification date July 2011 Reconstructed language Historical phonology Vowels Proto Dravidian contrasted between five short and long vowels a , , i , , u , , e , , o , . The sequences ai and au are treated ... Tamil language Category Dravidian languages Category Proto languages Dravidian Category Pre Indo Europeans fr Proto dravidien hi mr ru ... Methodology publisher Walter de Gruyter year 1990 isbn 3110119080 page 342 ref Consonants Proto Dravidian ... sound is retained in Kota language Kota and Toda language Toda Subrahmanyam 1983 . Malayalam language Malayalam still retains the original alveolar stop sound in gemination. ibid . In Old Tamil ... Unicode k in Proto Dravidian as in many of its daughter languages . Therefore it is not considered a separate phoneme in Proto Dravidian. However, it attained phonemic status in languages like Malayalam, Gondi language Gondi , Konda language Konda and Pengo language Pengo due to the simplification ... more details
Infobox language name Proto Norse nativename pronunciation region Scandinavia era evolved into Old Norse ... languages North Germanic script Elder Futhark notice IPA Proto Norse also Proto Scandinavian , Primitive Norse , Proto Nordic , Ancient Nordic , Old Scandinavian , Proto North Germanic and North Proto Germanic was an Indo European languages Indo European language spoken in Scandinavia that is thought to have evolved as a northern dialect of Proto Germanic languageProto Germanic over the first ... Germanic languageProto Germanic are rather small, though substantial, as several hundred years separate these language stages. Separating Proto Norse from Northwest Germanic can be said to be a matter ... von Krause, for one, sees the language of the runic inscriptions of the Proto Norse period as an immediate ... Proto Norse Language Category Proto languages Norse Category North Germanic languages Category Proto ... language, and the language Attested language attested in the oldest Scandinavian Elder Futhark inscriptions ... Germanic Iron Age . It evolved into the dialects of the Old Norse Old Norse language at the beginning ... syllable. Several scholars have proposed that Proto Norse also had a separate pitch accent , which was inherited from Proto Indo European languageProto Indo European and has evolved into the tonal accent s of modern Swedish language Swedish and Norwegian language Norwegian , which in turn have evolved into the st d of modern Danish language Danish . ref Kock, Axel, 1901 Die alt und neuschwedische ... advanced theory is that each Proto Norse long syllable and every other short syllable received stress .... I Nordlyd Troms University Working Papers on Language and Linguistics 3. 61 77. ref ref hman ... Consonants Stops Proto Norse had the same six stops as had Old Norse. When one of the voiced stops stands ... has been used for z by texts transcribing Proto Norse inscriptions . multicol Nasals n IPA n m IPA ... z above. multicol end Sources attesting Proto Norse Runic inscriptions Image Einangsteinen inscription2.jpg ... more details
No footnotes date June 2011 The Proto Turkic language is the Protolanguage historical linguistics protolanguage of the family of Turkic languages that predates the separation of the Turkic peoples and separation into Oghuz and Oghur branches. The oldest records of a Turkic language, the Old Turkic language Old Turkic Orkhon inscriptions of the 7th century G kt rk khaganate, already show characteristics of the Eastern Turkic languages Eastern branch of Turkic, and reconstruction of Proto Turkic must rely on comparisons of Old Turkic with early sources of the Western branches, Oghuz languages Oghuz and Kypchak languages Kypchak , as well as the Oghur languages Oghur branch Bulgar language Bulgar , Chuvash language Chuvash , Hunnic language Hunnic , Khazar language Khazar , Turkic Avar . Since attestation of these non Eastern languages is much more sparse, reconstruction of Proto Turkic still rests fundamentally on East Old Turkic of the G kt rks. Phonology Proto Turkic exhibited vowel harmony , a feature sometimes also ascribed to Proto Altaic , distinguishing vowel qualities e, i, o, u vs. , , , besides a , as well as two vowel quantities. The consonant system had a two way contrast of stop consonant s fortis vs. lenis , k, p, t vs. g, b, d , with verb initial b becoming h still in Proto Turkic. There was also an affricate consonant , at least one sibilant s and sonorant ... Proto Altaic . The last two can be reconstructed with the aid of the Oghur languages , which show ... Turkic as Shaz Turkic . An alternate analysis recontructs Proto Turkic z, , holding that Common ... A Computational Reconstruction 1998 . Edward J. Vajda, review of D csy 1998 , Language journal Language ... & Altaic , RoutledgeCurzon 1997 , ISBN 0700709355. Andras Rona Tas, The Reconstruction of Proto Turkic and the Genetic Question , in L. Johanson, The Turkic Languages , Routledge Language Family Descriptions ... Category Agglutinative languages Category Turkic languages Category Proto languages bg ... more details
Citations missing date March 2009 Proto Uralic is the hypothetical language ancestral to the Uralic languages Uralic language family . The language was originally spoken in a small area in about 7000 2000 ... Similarly to the situation for Proto Indo European languageProto Indo European , reconstructions of Proto ... Finno Permic languages, but certain loans from as far back as the Proto Indo European language ... 2.140.PDF ref Grammar Grammatically Proto Uralic was an agglutinative language with at least ..., singular, dual and plural. Proto Uralic was a nominative accusative language. Verbs may have had a separate ..., if it is required that every word reconstructed for the protolanguage should be present in Samoyed ... sanastosta On the vocabulary of the Uralic protolanguage . Journal de la Soci t Finno Ougrienne 77 ... reconstruction may not be a representation of the language itself instead, it may summarize features ..., Proto Uralic diverged into Proto Samoyedic and Proto Finno Ugric . However, reconstructed Proto Finno Ugric differs little from Proto Uralic, and many apparent differences follow from the methods used. Thus Proto Finno Ugric may not be separate from Proto Uralic. Another reconstruction of the split of Proto Uralic has three branches Finno Permic, Ugric and Samoyedic from the start. Recently these tree ... phonemic reconstruction . Vowels Proto Uralic had vowel harmony and a rather large inventory ... sound change, Finnic is known to have adstrate influence from language groups that would not have known ... already in Proto Uralic remains a possibility. ref name PK12 citation last Petri first Kallio title The non initial syllable vowel reductions from Proto Uralic to Proto Finnic year 2012 journal Suomalais ... sequences, and Proto Uralic x year 2012 journal Suomalais Ugrilaisen Seuran toimituksia volume 264 .... Proto Uralic did not have tones, which contrasts with Yeniseian and some Siberian languages. Neither was there contrastive stress as in Indo European in Proto Uralic the first syllable was invariably ... more details
The Proto Kartvelian language , or Common Kartvelian lang ka , is the hypothesis ... also Proto Indo European language The ablaut patterns of Proto Kartvelian are highly similar to those of the Indo European languages , and so it is widely thought that Proto Kartvelian interacted with Indo ... descendants of Proto Kartvelian are Georgian language Georgian , Mingrelian language Mingrelian , Laz language Laz , and Svan language Svan . Of these, Mingrelian and Laz are often considered dialects of a single language, called Zan languages Zan , although the two are not inherently mutually intelligible. The ablaut patterns of Proto Kartvelian were better preserved in Georgian and particularly ... Kartvelian, Proto, Language Category Agglutinative languages Category Proto languages Kartvelian language Category Kartvelian languages Proto Kartvelian language es Idioma proto kartveliano it Lingua ... of the modern Kartvelian peoples . The existence of such a language is widely accepted by specialists in linguistics, who have reconstructed a broad outline of the language by comparing the existing ... from Indo European, such as the Proto Kartvelian m sub . sub k sub . sub erd breast , and its obvious ..., stable vowel in each word element. ref name Britannica The system of pronoun s of Proto Kartvelian ... survived in Svan language Svan but not in the other languages. Svan also includes a number of archaisms from the Proto Kartvelian era, and therefore it is thought that Svan broke off from Proto Kartvelian at a relatively early stage the later Proto Kartvelian stage called Karto Zan languages Karto Zan split into Georgian language Georgian and Zan languages Zan Mingrelo Laz . ref name Britannica Phonology Vowels class wikitable style text align center Proto Kartvelian vowels ref Gamkrelidze & Machavariani ... wikitable IPA Proto Kartvelian consonants ref Gamkrelidze 1966 , p. 70 ref ref name Fae02 F hnrich ... Universit t place Jena Gamkrelidze, Th. 1966 A Typology of Common Kartvelian , Language, Vol. 42, No. 1 ... more details
Proto Anatolian is the protolanguage from which Anatolian languages emerged. As with all other proto languages, no attested writings have been found the language has been reconstructed by applying the comparative method to all the attested Anatolian languages as well as other Indo European languages . Phonology For the most part, Proto Anatolian has been reconstructed on the basis of Hittite language Hittite , the best attested Anatolian language. However, the usage of Hittite cuneiform writing system limits the enterprise of understanding and reconstructing Anatolian phonology, partly due to the deficiency of the adopted Akkadian cuneiform syllabary to represent Hittite sounds, and partly due to the Hittite scribal practices. This especially pertains to what appears to be confusion of voiceless and voiced dental stops, where signs dV and tV are employed interchangeably different attestations of the same word. ref name Luraghi 1998 174 Luraghi 1998 174 ref Furthermore, in the syllables of the structure VC only the signs with voiceless stops as usually used. Distribution of spellings with single and geminated consonants in the oldest extant monuments indicates that the reflexes of Proto Indo European phonology PIE voiceless stops were spelled as double consonants and the reflexes of PIE voiced stops as single consonants. This regularity is the most consistent in in the case of dental stops in older texts ref name Luraghi 1998 174 later monuments often show irregular variation of this rule. Vowels Common Anatolian preserves PIE vowel system basically intact. Some ref Lauraghi ... DEFAULTSORT Proto Anatolian Language Category Anatolian languages Category Proto languages Anatolian ... is to indicate vowel quantity according to him the Hittite a contrasts inherits diphonemic Proto Anatolian contrast, reflecting PIE o , a and , and Proto Anatolian a reflecting PIE a . According to Melchert, the lengthening of accented short vowels in open syllables cannot be Proto Anatolian ... more details
Proto Iroquoian is the name given to the hypothetical protolanguage of the Iroquoian languages . Floyd Lounsbury Lounsbury 1961 estimated from glottochronology a time depth of 3,500 to 3,800 for the split of South and North Iroquoian. At the time of first contact, speakers of Iroquoian languages were distributed from the Cherokee in the Allegheny Mountains northwards to the Tuscarora people Tuscarora and Nottoway near the modern Virginia and North Carolina borders, then further north to the Iroquois Five Nations in Upstate New York and the Huron and Neutral Nation Neutral in modern day Ontario . The Iroquoian languages are usually divided into two main groups Southern Iroquoian Cherokee and Northern Iroquoian all others based on the great differences in vocabulary and modern phonology. Northern Iroquoian is then further divided by Lounsbury and Marianne Mithun Mithun into Proto Tuscarora Nottoway and Lake Iroquoian, although Julian 2010 does not believe Lake Iroquoian to be a valid subgrouping. Isolated studies were done by Wallace Chafe Chafe 1977a , Michelson 1988 , and Rudes 1995 . There have also been several works of internal reconstruction for daughter languages, in particular with Seneca language Seneca and Mohawk language Mohawk . A preliminary full reconstruction of proto Iroquoian was not provided until Charles Julian s 2010 work. Phonology Proto Iroquoian as reconstructed shares the Iroquoian languages notable typological traits of small consonant inventories, complex consonant clusters, and a lack of labial consonant s. Vowels The reconstructed vowel inventory for Proto Iroquoian is class wikitable style text align center Front vowel Front Central vowel Central ... Office. DEFAULTSORT Proto Iroquoian language Category Proto languages Iroquoian Category Iroquoian ... IPA a Like later Iroquoian languages, Proto Iroquoian is distinguished in having nasal vowels ... inventory for Proto Iroquoian is given in the table below. The consonants of all Iroquoian languages ... more details
Infobox language name Proto Hlai nativename region Hainan , China era familycolor Tai Kadai fam2 Hlai languages Hlai notice IPA The Proto Hlai language is the linguistic reconstruction reconstructed ancestor of the Hlai languages . Proto Hlai reconstructions include those of Matisoff 1988 , Thurgood 1991 , Ostapirat 2004 , and Norquest 2007 . Phonology Peter K. Norquest reconstructs a total of 32 Proto Hlai consonants Norquest 2007 135 , although Weera Ostapirat reconstructs only 19 proto consonants Ostapirat 2007 145 . class wikitable IPA Proto Hlai Consonants br Norquest 2007 colspan 2 Labial ... about the Pre Hlai language as reconstructed by Norquest 2007 , Proto Tai languageProto Southern Kradai . The transition from Proto Tai languageProto Southern Kradai Pre Hlai the predecessor of the Proto Hlai language ancestral to both Hlai language Hlai and Jiamao language Jiamao to Proto ... in Kadai and SE Asian Linguistics III 1 49. See also Proto Tai languageProto Kra languageProto ..., Proto Hlai forms can be both monosyllabic and disyllabic. Some disyllabic forms have medial ... below, proto Hlai consonants marked as green can occur at the end of syllables. class wikitable IPA Proto Hlai Consonants br Ostapirat 2004 colspan 2 Labial consonant Labial colspan 2 Labiodental consonant ... of 4 5 Proto Hlai vowels in Norquest s reconstruction Norquest 2007 238 . Ostapirat 2004 reconstructs ... align center width 30 Proto Hlai Vowels br Norquest 2007 colspan 2 Height colspan 2 Front vowel ... 2 There are 7 possible closed Syllable rime rime s in Norquest s reconstruction of Proto Hlai, not counting ... Pre Hlai, which was sesquisyllabic, was reduced to monosyllabic forms in Proto Hlai. Stop ... affrication After evolving from Pre Hlai, Proto Hlai initials went through 4 main types of sound ..., etc. After the breakup of Proto Hlai, the following sound changes occurred in various Hlai branches ... gradworks.umi.com 32 84 3284367.html A Phonological Reconstruction of Proto Hlai . Ph.D. dissertation ... more details
Infobox language name Proto Mon Khmer era familycolor Austro Asiatic region Southeast Asia notice IPA The Proto Mon Khmer language is the linguistic reconstruction reconstructed ancestor of the Mon Khmer languages , which is a primary branch of the Austro Asiatic languages Austro Asiatic language family . Much work has been done on the reconstruction of Proto Mon Khmer in Harry L. Shorto s Mon Khmer Comparative Dictionary . However, very little work has been done on Proto Austro Asiatic itself, since the Munda languages are not well documented. If Mon Khmer is not a valid taxon, as some recent classifications would have it, then Proto Mon Khmer becomes synonymous with Proto Austro Asiatic. Sidwell ... u9907217 lexico AAclassification.html Classifications of Mon Khmer languages DEFAULTSORT Proto Mon Khmer Language Category Austro Asiatic languages Category Mon Khmer languages Category Proto languages ..., and that the family is not as old as frequently assumed. Phonology Proto Mon Khmer has a total of 21 ... 2006 . class wikitable style margin auto align center caption Proto Mon Khmer Consonants colspan ... colspan 2 colspan 2 colspan 2 s colspan 2 colspan 2 h h Proto Mon Khmer is rich in vowel s. The vowels ... align center style text align center width 50 caption Proto Mon Khmer Vowels colspan 2 Height colspan ... languages Khmuic and Aslian languages Aslian . On the other hand, Vietnamese language Vietnamese morphology is far more similar to that of Chinese language Chinese and the Tai languages and has lost many morphological features found in Proto Mon Khmer. The following Proto Mon Khmer affixes, which are still ... date November 2010 Like the Tai languages , Proto Mon Khmer has an SVO , or verb medial, order. Proto Mon Khmer also makes use of classifier linguistics noun classifiers and serial verb construction .... ISBN 0 85883 570 3. Sidwell, Paul. 2008. Issues in the morphological reconstruction of Proto Mon Khmer. In Bowern, Claire, et. al eds . Morphology and language history in honour of Harold Koch ... more details
Proto Berber is the reconstructed protolanguage from which the modern Berber languages stem. Proto Berber was an Afroasiatic language, and its descendants the Berber languages are sisters to the Egyptian language , Cushitic languages , Semitic languages , Chadic languages , and the Omotic languages . ref Harvcoltxt Allati 2002 p 3 ref History Proto Berber showed features which clearly distinguish ... Proto BerberKin.pdf 23.8 KB Berber languages DEFAULTSORT Proto Berber Language Category Berber languages Category Proto languages Berber language stub ... 3 26, 44 50 place Moscow year 1984 ref , the split from the common language from which modern Berber ... and Berber peoples genetic and linguistic diversity ref In the third millennium BC, proto Berber ... for all major species of domestic ruminant except for the camel in Proto Berber ... Phonology Some earlier attempts to derive the phonemic inventory of proto Berber were very Tuareg influenced ... 1999 http www.koeppe.de titel details.php?id 239 Essai sur la phonologie du proto berb re , R diger ... publications, Prasse had argued that e and o did not go back to Proto Berber. ref . Their main ... of PB vowels in modern Berber languages ref Harvcoltxt Kossmann 2001a ref PB Zenaga language Zenaga Tuareg language Tuareg br Ghadam s language Ghadames Figuig br and others a a i i u u ... the vowels a , i , u in his proto forms. ref http starling.rinet.ru cgi bin response.cgi?root ... reconstructs the following consonantal phonemes for Proto Berber class IPA wikitable Consonant phonemes ..., H.J. Berber Phonology , in Phonologies of Asia and Africa , 461 475 1997 ref , most Proto Berber ... MB , p. 10. ref class wikitable IPA PB Tam. Ghadam s language Ghad. Rif languages Rif Chen. g g g y g Similarly, Proto Berber c, corresponding to k in non Zenati varieties, become in Zenati ... linguistic.pdf The Berbers Linguistic and genetic diversity 4.24 MB , p. 14. ref Proto Berber ... more details
The Proto Human language also Proto Sapiens , Proto World is the hypothetical most recent common ancestor of all the List of language families world s languages . The concept of Proto Human presupposes ... or disputed whether the earliest members of Homo sapiens had fully developed language. Some scholars link the emergence of language proper out of a proto linguistic stage that may have lasted considerably ... languages today. Campbell harshly criticizes efforts to reconstruct a Proto human language, saying ... of modern humans Protolanguage List of proto languages Borean languages Adamic language Polygenesis ... Language Relationship . DEFAULTSORT Proto Human Language Category Proto languages Human Category ... Praj zyk ludzko ci ru simple Proto World language sv Proto v rld zh ... with unrecorded languages, such as those of the Paleolithic or hypothetical Neanderthal language s. Advocates of linguistic polygenesis do not accept the notion of a fully developed Proto Human language and consider the world s language families independent developments of a proto linguistic form of communication used by archaic Homo sapiens archaic Homo sapiens . If the assumption of a Proto Human language is accepted, its date may be set anywhere between 200,000 years ago the age of Homo ... of any widely accepted proof that the ancestor language could not have originated with humans other ... term for this concept. Most treatments of the subject do not include a name for the language under consideration e.g. Bengtson and Ruhlen 1994 . The terms Proto World and Proto Human ref used by the Harold ... Bengtson 2007 . ref are in occasional use. Merritt Ruhlen has been using the term Proto Sapiens . History ... is a comprehensive classification of what is very likely a single language family. Notable living American ... the date of the hypothetical ancestor language was that of Alfredo Trombetti 1922 315 , who ... in making any statement on particulars of Proto Human lies in the time depth involved, which ... more details
The Proto Tibeto Burman language is the protolanguage reconstructed ancestor of the Tibeto Burman languages ... of this language. Phonology according to Benedict and Matisoff The phonology of Proto Tibeto ... date December 2010 Proto Tibeto Burman was a verb final subject object verb or SOV language. Morphology Syllable structure According to James Matisoff , Proto Tibeto Burman syllables typically .... The Sino Tibetan Languages . London Routledge. DEFAULTSORT Proto Tibeto Burman Language Category ... s earlier reconstructions. Consonants Proto Tibetan Burman has at least 23 consonants Matisoff 2003 15 . Some descendants of Proto Tibetan Burman, especially the Qiangic languages , have developed ... Proto Tibeto Burman Consonants colspan 2 Labial consonant Labial colspan 2 Alveolar consonant Alveolar ... colspan 2 colspan 2 colspan 2 j colspan 2 colspan 2 Proto Tibeto Burman also has many final nasals, stops, and liquids. Vowels Proto Tibeto Burman vowels can be split into primary and secondary sets. Modern ... 50 caption Proto Tibeto Burman Primary Vowels colspan 2 Height colspan 2 Front vowel Front colspan ... 2 w class wikitable style margin auto align center style text align center width 30 caption Proto ... language Lahu . There are no glottal or nasal traces of former final consonants left in the syllables ... of verbal agreement should be reconstructed for proto Tibeto Burman. Verbal agreement has disappeared ... roots, it is used for the present and future tenses . In Proto Lolo Burmese, the unvoiced velar prefix ... Circumfixes have also been reconstructed for Proto Tibeto Burman. In Written Tibetan, s n and s d are collective circumfixes used in kinship terms Matisoff 2003 453 . Suffixes Three Proto Tibeto ... or pluralizing . The nominalizing function is attested in Lepcha language Lepcha as m or n and in Written Tibetan as n. The transitivizing form is rare, and has only been attested in Kanauri language ... . It occurs in Jingpho language Jingpho as t and Written Tibetan as d. Other functions include verbalizing ... more details
Refimprove date February 2009 The Proto Greek language is the assumed last common ancestor of all known varieties of Greek language Greek , including Mycenaean Greek language Mycenaean , the ancient Greek ... Macedonian language , either as descended from an earlier Proto Hellenic language, or by definition including it among the descendants of Proto Greek as a Hellenic languages Hellenic language and or a Greek dialect. ref http multitree.org trees Indo European 20Composite 730997 ref Proto Greek would have been spoken in the late 3rd millennium BC , most probably in the Balkans . The unity of Proto Greek would have ended as Greeks Hellenic migrants, speaking the predecessor of the Mycenaean language ... between Ancient Greek and Vedic Sanskrit suggest that both Proto Greek and Proto Indo Iranian languageProto Indo Iranian were still quite similar to either late Proto Indo European languageProto Indo ... Aryan protolanguage. Graeco Aryan has little support among linguists, since both geographical ... European. History of the Greek language 310 Phonology File Proto Greek Area reconstruction.png 300px ... i.e. after it had already become a Centum language . Proto Greek changes The primary sound changes separating Proto Greek from the Proto Indo European language included Debuccalization of s to h ... Proto Greek it appears, at least as gunai also in Armenian language Armenian . Pronoun The pronouns ... of Classical Greek into Proto Greek. His reconstruction was ignorant of Mycenaean language Mycenaean ... in some dialects Mycenaean, Arcadian, Aeolic . See also Protolanguage Greeks Hellenes Ancient Macedonian language Paleo Balkan languages Pre Greek substrate Proto Indo European language Kafkania ... periods DEFAULTSORT Proto Greek Language Category Varieties of Greek Category Proto languages ... century BC at the latest. The evolution of Proto Greek should be considered with the background ... laryngeals by prothetic vowels is shared by the Armenian language , which also shares other phonological ... more details
Proto Basque known in Basque language Basque as Aitzineuskara and in Spanish language Spanish as protoeuskera or protovasco is a reconstructed predecessor of the Basque language , prior to the Roman conquests in the Western Pyrenees . Background The first linguist to scientifically approach the question of the historical changes that the Basque language had undergone over the centuries was Koldo Mitxelena . The period covered by his work on Proto Basque focussed mainly on the period between the 5th century BC to the 1st century AD, the period just before and after initial contact with the Ancient Rome Romans . The main method he employed was that of internal reconstruction as Basque had and still ... proposes that in pre proto Basque there was extensive reduplication , and that later certain initial consonants were deleted, leaving the VCV pattern in proto Basque align center border 0 cellpadding 2 cellspacing 2 Pre Proto Basque Proto Basque Basque language Modern Basque English language English ... Basque languageProto Basque Category Proto languages Basque Category Pre Indo Europeans an Idioma protovasco ca Protobasc es Protoeuskera eu Aitzineuskara fr Proto basque it Lingua proto basca oc ... Fon tica hist rica vasca was mostly carried out before the Aquitanian language Aquitanian inscriptions were found, which fully backed up Mitxelena s proposed Proto Basque forms. ref name Trask Larry .... Some of these, for example Lakarra, have focussed their attention on even older layers of the language Pre Proto Basque preceding the Celts Celtic invasion of Iberian Peninsula Iberia . Vocabulary Studying the behaviour of Latin and early Romance loanwords in Basque, Koldo Mitxelena discovered that proto Basque n became lost between vowels, and similarly that proto Basque had no m. Both are relatively unusual changes cross linguistically. align center border 0 cellpadding 2 cellspacing 2 Proto Basque Basque language Modern Basque English language English bgcolor whitesmoke ardano bgcolor aliceblue ... more details
One source date February 2012 Infobox language name Proto Tai nativename region Southern China , Laos , Burma , Thailand , India era familycolor Tai Kadai fam2 Tai languages Tai notice IPA Proto Tai is the linguistic reconstruction reconstructed common ancestor protolanguage of all the Tai languages , including modern Lao language Lao , Shan language Shan , Lu language Lu , Tai Dam language Tai Dam , Northern Thai language Northern Thai , Thai language Thai , Buyei language Bouyei , and Standard Zhuang Zhuang . The Proto Tai language is not directly attested by any surviving texts, but has been ... of Proto Southern Tai Kadai, which is ancestral to the Hlai languages , Ong Be language , and Tai ... language Pittayaporn 2009 . Below are some possible Proto Tai syllable shapes from Pittayaporn 2009 ... .282009.29 Tai languages Pittayaporn 2009 . See also Proto Kra languageProto Hlai languageProto ... language.php?id 698 ref Phonology Consonants The following table shows the consonants of Proto ... as palatal consonant palatal affricate s. class wikitable Proto Tai Consonants br Li 1977 colspan 2 ... lists the consonantal phonemes of Pittayawat Pittayaporn s 2009 reconstruction of Proto Tai Pittayaporn ... symbols for implosive consonant s. However, Pittayaporn s Proto Tai reconstruction has a number ... as secondary developments in Southwestern Tai languages i.e., after Proto Tai split up into different ... among the sounds kh , x and h , in particular in the Phuan language and the Kapong District Kapong dialect of the Phu Thai language . The distinction between kh and x can be reconstructed from White Tai language. However, words with x in White Tai show three different types of correspondences in Phuan ... but h in Kapong Phu Thai. Pittayaporn reconstructs these correspondence classes as reflecting Proto Tai x , IPA and q , respectively. ref Pittayaporn, Pittayawat 2009 . Proto Southwestern Tai Revised ... clusters. class wikitable Proto Tai Consonants br Pittayaporn 2009 colspan 2 colspan 2 Labial ... more details
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