Proto-Ahasawar

Proto-Ahasawar is one of the three languages that emerged from Proto-Olokian, the other ones being Old Nanshomok and Proto-Kolpuŋar. Proto-Ahasawar split from Proto-Olokian around 9,000 years ago, when the Olokians arrived North Africa from the Arabian peninsula and spread all over the Saharan and Sub-Saharan regions. Around 8,500 years ago, Proto-Ahasawar began to break apart into different dialects, which gradually would become the Ahasawar languages.

Divisions

 * 1) Western Ahasawar
 * 2) Eastern Ahasawar

Phonological changes from Proto-Olokian to Proto-Ahasawar

 * 1) Inclusion of the ejective consonants [p', t' , k' , t͡s'], possibly arising from the clusters of the plosives /p , t , k , t͡s/ with the glottal stop [ʔ]
 * 2) Lenition of the uvular plosives /q, ɢ/ into pharyngeal fricatives [ħ , ʕ].
 * 3) Proto-Olokian /d͡z/ splits into Proto-Ahasawar [d͡z] and [z].