Proto-Dwaripje language

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Proto-Dwaripje
Region Originalia/Omoserica/Dateline
Language family
  • Proto-Dwaripje
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  Proto-Dwaripje


Phonology[edit | edit source]

Consonants[edit | edit source]

Bilabial Labiodental Alveolar Postalveolar(Palato-alveolar) Palatal Palatalized velar Velar Labialized velar
Plosive p, b, pw, bw, pj, bj t, d, tw, dw, tj, dj kj, gj k, g kw, gw
Affricate dʒ, dʒw, dʒj
Fricative f, fw, fj s, z
Nasal m n
Trill r
Approximant j w
Lateral approximant l

Vowels[edit | edit source]

Front
Close i, iː
Close-mid e, eː
Open a, aː

Phonotactics[edit | edit source]

(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[edit | edit source]

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).

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Expansion from the urheimat.

Lexicon[edit | edit source]

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

See Also[edit | edit source]