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Archaic Njazanic
ńačanyj mäńćä
[ɲɑt͡ʃɑnɯj mæɲt͡ɕæ]*
Registered by [Deactivated User] on 15 March 2020
Language type Proto-Conlang
Species Human/humanoid
About Archaic Njazanic Archaic Njazanic or Proto-Njazanic is the parent language of a subfamily of languages in the northeast of a fictional world I'm working on. It is not really a true proto-language, instead it's late stages coincide with the earlist written attestation of the Njazanic branch of languages.

It is vaguely inspired by the Uralic and Paleo-Siberian languages, as well as other "northern" languages.

Archaic Njazanic features vowel harmony, postpositions, SOV as its standard word-order, a distinction between inanimate and animate nouns (and only the latter are reliably marked for number), verbs that often have trouble distinguishing number or person and last-and-also-least: a small case system (that's going to grow by quite a lot in some of the descendant languages).
Sample of Archaic NjazanicCan't find any yet.
Latest vocabulary
hunäśvturn
wajtyńnchild
juñkinberry
Phonology
ConsonantsBilabialLabio-
dental
AlveolarPost-
Alveolar
Alveolo-
palatal
PalatalLabio-
velar
VelarUvularGlottal
Nasal m   n     ɲ   ŋ    
Plosive p b   t d         k g   ʔ
Fricative     s   ɕ     x [χ]1 [h]2
Affricate     t͡s t͡ʃ [t͡ɕ]3          
Lateral approximant     [l]4     ʎ        
Approximant   [ʋ]5       j w      
Flap     ɾ              
  1. after back vowels, allophone of /x/
  2. free variation, allophone of /ʔ/
  3. near palatal consonants, allophone of /t͡ʃ/
  4. especially word initally, allophone of /ɾ/
  5. allophone of /w/
VowelsFrontBack
Close i y ɯ u
Close-mid e o
Near-open æ  
Open   ɑ
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Archaic Njazanic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Archaic NjazanicOrthography [edit]
Ää/æ/Aa/ɑ/Bb/b/Čč/t͡ʃ/Cc/t͡s/Dd/d/Ee/e/Gg/g/Hh/ʔ/, [h]1Ii/i/
Jj/j/Kk/k/Mm/m/Ññ/ŋ/Nn/n/Ńń/ɲ/Oo/o/Pp/p/Ŕŕ/ʎ/Rr/ɾ/, [l]2
Ss/s/Śś/ɕ/Tt/t/Uu/u/Üü/y/Ww/w/, [ʋ]Xx/x/, [χ]3Yy/ɯ/
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change]
  1. free variation
  2. especially word initally
  3. after back vowels
Typological information for Archaic Njazanic

Animacy distinctionsAnimate/Inanimate
Noun numbersSingular/Dual/Plural
Syllable structureModerate (CVC max)
Vowel harmonyFront-back
Vowel harmony exemptionsTransparent neutral vowels

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