Proto-Dwaripje language

Consonants:

Vowels:

Phonotactics: (C)V(C) syllable structure. Labialized consonants can only be succeeded by /a/ and /e/ and palatalized consonants can only be succeeded by /a/ and /e/. Non palatalized or labialized consonants can be succeeded by all three vowels. Labialized consonants that aren't bilabial can also be succeeded by /i/. Stress is almost always on the first syllable, and the first vowel in a word is always long.

Grammar: Highly polysynthetic language. High degree of incorporation and highly agglutinating. There are 3 genders/noun classes, animate, inanimate, and abstract. VSO sentence ordering. Ergative–absolutive language. Vigesimal numeral system. Verbs have three persons, two numbers (singular, plural), declarative, imperative and conditional moods, active and antipassive voices, and six tenses: present I (progressive), present II (stative), past I (aorist), past II (perfect), future I (perfective future), future II (imperfective future).



Extent of the Dwaripje languages. There are many subdivisions.



Expansion from the urheimat.

Lexicon:
 * [ˈdʷaːripʲe] - language/speech
 * [ˈdʒʷaːzi] - cow
 * [ˈtʷaːme] - boat/canoe
 * [ˈlaː] - man
 * [ˈriː] - woman
 * [ˈgʲaːni] - dog
 * [ˈbʲaːta] - horse
 * [ˈjaːkʷa] - wheat