Proto-Vaktrian language
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Proto-Vaktrian | |
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Reconstruction of | Vaktrian |
Region | Terranihil |
Era | 2nd millenium BCE |
Lower-order reconstructions | |
Vaktrian alphabet |
Proto-Vaktrian, or proto-Vaktrian, is the reconstructed proto-language of the Vaktrian languages and thus the ancestor of Classical Vaktrian, Standard Vaktrian, and the modern dialects of Vaktrian. Its speakers, the hypothetical Proto-Vaktrian people, are assumed to have lived in the 2nd millennium BC.
Origin and development
Phonology
Notable phonological differences from Classical Vaktrian and later dialects are the voiced fricatives /z/ and /ʒ/ and the lack of /l/.
Labial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||
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dental | alveolar | post-alveolar | ||||||
Plosive | voiceless | /p/ p | /t/ t | /k/ k | ||||
voiced | /b/ b | /d/ d | /g/ g | |||||
Fricative | voiceless | /f/ f | /θ/ ŧ | /s/ s | /ʃ/ š | /x/ c | /h/ h | |
voiced | /v/ v | /ð/ đ | /z/ z | /ʒ/ ƶ | ||||
Nasal | /m/ m | /n/ n | ||||||
Liquid | /r/ r | |||||||
Semivowel | /j/ ı |
Short | Long | |||
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High | /i/ i | /u/ u | /iː/ ǐ | /uː/ ǔ |
Mid | ||||
Low | /a/ a | /aː/ ǎ |