| Proto-Ahasawar | |||||||||||||
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| Type | Polysynthetic | ||||||||||||
| Alignment | N/A | ||||||||||||
| Head direction | N/A | ||||||||||||
| Tonal | No | ||||||||||||
| Declensions | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Conjugations | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Genders | No | ||||||||||||
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| Case | Number | ||||||||||||
| Definiteness | Gender | ||||||||||||
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| Voice | Mood | ||||||||||||
| Person | Number | ||||||||||||
| Tense | Aspect | ||||||||||||
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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[]
- Western Ahasawar
- Eastern Ahasawar
Phonology[]
Consonants[]
| Labial | Coronal | Dorsal | Pharyngeal | Glottal | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasal | m {m} | n {n} | ŋ {ŋ} | ||
| Plosive | p {p} , b {b}
p' {ṗ} |
t {t} , d {d}
t' {ṭ} |
k {k} , g {g}
k' {ḳ} |
ʔ {'} | |
| Affricate | t͡s {c} , d͡z {ʒ}
t͡s' {ċ} |
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| Fricative | s {s} , z {z} | ħ {x} , ʕ {°} | h {h} | ||
| Approximant | w {w} | l {l} | j {j} | ||
| Trill | r {r} |
Vowels[]
| Front | Central | Back | |
|---|---|---|---|
| High | i {i} | u {u} | |
| Mid | e {e} | ə {y} | o {o} |
| Low | ä {a} |
Phonological changes from Proto-Olokian to Proto-Ahasawar[]
- 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/.
- Lenition of the uvular plosives /q , ɢ/ into pharyngeal fricatives [ħ , ʕ].
- Proto-Olokian /d͡z/ splits into Proto-Ahasawar [d͡z] and [z].