Proto-Vaktrian language

Proto-Vaktrian
Reconstruction of	Vaktrian
Region	Terranihil
Era	2nd millenium BCE
Lower-order reconstructions	Classical Vaktrian Vaktrian
Writing system	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.

Phonology

Notable phonological differences from Classical Vaktrian and later dialects are the voiced fricatives /z/ and /ʒ/ and the lack of /l/.

Consonants

		Labial	Coronal			Palatal	Velar	Glottal
			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/ ǧ
Nasal		/m/ m			/n/ n
Liquid					/r/ r
Semivowel						/j/ ı

Vowels

	Short		Long
High	/i/ i	/u/ u	/iː/ ǐ	/uː/ ǔ
Mid
Low	/a/ a		/aː/ ǎ