Proto-Yucho language
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| Proto-Yucho | |
|---|---|
| Reconstruction of | Yucho languages |
| Region | Northern Miraria, likely in the Yaru Islands |
| Era | ca. 1000 CE |
| Lower-order reconstructions |
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Proto-Yucho is the reconstructed proto-language of the Yucho languages, probably spoken around 1000 to 1500 years ago in the Yaru Islands of present-day Kasiiralq.
Phonology
Consonants
| Bilabial | Alveolar | Palatal | Velar | Laryngeal | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | *m | *n | *ŋ | |||||||
| Plosive and Affricate | *p | *t | *d | *č | *k | *q | (*ʔ) | |||
| Fricative | *s | *g | h | |||||||
| Glide | *w | *y | ||||||||
| Liquid | *r | |||||||||
Vowels
| Front | Central | Back | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| High | *i | *i: | *u | *u: | ||
| Mid-High | *e | *e: | *ə | *ə: | *o | *o: |
| Mid-Low | *ɛ | *ɛ: | *ɔ | *ɔ: | ||
| Low | *a | *a: | ||||