Proto-Bayasegi

Proto-Bayasegi is the hypothesized common ancestor to the Bayasegi languages, one of the most widely spoken language families on Earth. The word Bayasegi derives from the word "baya" meaning "clear. good" in proto-language, and the word "segi" which means "speech", thus "clear/good speech". The reason for this etymology is that many of the modern Bayasegi languages uses this etymology as the name for their own languages (with their own modern words). Proto-Bayasegi is hypothesized to have been spoken around 6,000-5,000 BCE, in modern-day Central Asia, somewhere near modern-day Uzbekistan or Turkmenistan. The Bayasegi peoples then further dispersed around the globe, inhabiting parts of the Middle East, East Asia, Siberia, and even Europe. Later, through colonization, the Bayasegi languages are now spoken in parts of South and Central America. There are currently estimated to be around 800-900 Bayasegi languages spoken around the globe. Most of these languages have a low number of speakers, but certain branches of Bayasegi have proliferated, and now the language family holds a little over a 1 billion speakers.

Consonants
Proto-Bayasegi is reconstructed as having 20-21 distinct consonants. * [w]and [j] are variants of /i/ and /u/, in certain positions

^/ŋ/ is realized as [ɲ] before /i/

1/t/, /d/, /th/, /s/, are all post-alveolar before /i/