User:OrangeHills/OrangeHill's Proto-Lang

Proto-Asermian, natively *rakejet̠ræβ  (IPA: ) is the common ancester of the Asermian family of languages, which includes Ricūtšreb, Rowictob, and Karbash.

Classification and Dialects
Proto-Asermian is a part of the Asermian language family. Its origins are unknown, but most likely came from late Paleolithic proto-speech spoken by members of the Asermian race. Their lack of teeth or lips is reflected in the complete lack of labiodental consonants and rounded vowels, as well as the instability of alveolar consonants and certain plosives. It is not known in what manner the Asermian peoples articulated bilabial consonants, if they even could at all, but it has been hypothesised that Proto-Asermian may have had bilabial fricatives /ɸ/ and /β/, as well as the bilabial nasal /m/.

Clicks
Proto-Asermian had one click consonant, the voiceless post-alveolar click /!/, which occured only when word final and preceded by a vowel.

Ejectives
Proto-Asermian had two ejective consonants, both of which occured only when word final: the alveolar ejective /t'/ (which occured only when preceded by a consonant), and the velar ejective /k'/.

Writing System
Proto-Asermian had no writing system, as it was long before the introduction of the original Immajer Racwaietrab script. In modern times it is transcribed using the Standardised Orthography for Asermian.

Nouns
Proto-Asermian was the only known Asermian language to use noun declension. Nouns declined according to case, gender, and number. Proto-Asermian had 3 noun cases: nominative, accusative, and genitive; 3 noun genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter; and 2 noun numbers: singular and plural. The table of declensions is shown below.

English
On a hill, a sheep that had no wool saw horses, one of them pulling a heavy wagon, one carrying a big load, and one carrying a man quickly. The sheep said to the horses: "My heart pains me, seeing a man driving horses." The horses said: "Listen, sheep, our hearts pain us when we see this: a man, the master, makes the wool of the sheep into a warm garment for himself. And the sheep has no wool." Having heard this, the sheep fled into the plain.