Meowing Dialect Continuum

Quick Note: This is not canon.

The Meowing Dialect Continuum is the formal name for a group of dialects in the Kranto-Fenikic languages which have a well-defined border with other languages, but have a rather fuzzy internal distinction. These dialects are noted for their emphasis on nasal consonants, including nasal trills, which is what led to their being called the "Meowing Languages".

The proto-language may have been called *Merngem, but it will be referred to from here on as PML, short for Proto-Meowing-Language.

Writing
PML and its daughter languages are written in their own scripts, which don't correspond to one another. However, they can all be written in PML romanization, a romanization of all of those language based on extrapolation from sound changes in PML.

All sounds in PML are marked with an asterisk, as is customary for proto-languages, while the shared sounds of its descendants are not.

PML Consonants

Extensions used to write current Meowing Languages, with the positions of the current versions of PML Sounds with Asterisks

Some of the original vowels of PML went through sound changes in the daughter languages based on the sounds which came after.

Sample Words