Proto-Marianic [PMAR]
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+ shared with: Asuranesia
+ shared with: Asuranesia
Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Proto-Marianic
One of the many daughters of 
Proto-Littoro-Marianic, Proto-Marianic was a richly inflected language that likely formed a dialect continuum spanning much of Central and Eastern Asuranesia.
Proto-Littoro-Marianic, Proto-Marianic was a richly inflected language that likely formed a dialect continuum spanning much of Central and Eastern Asuranesia.
Sample of Proto-MarianicCan't find any yet.
Language family relationships
Language treeAsuranesian
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Early-Proto-Asuranesian
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Proto-Asuranesian
⤷ Proto-Littoro-Marianic
⤷ Littoro-Marianic
⤷ Central-Western Littoro-Marianic
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Proto-Marianic
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Early-Proto-Asuranesian⤷
Proto-Asuranesian⤷
Proto-Littoro-Marianic⤷ Littoro-Marianic
⤷ Central-Western Littoro-Marianic
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Proto-Marianic[view] About AsuranesianAsuranesian is a family of languages spoken across the Asura Ocean, Nagu (where the family is believed to have originated) and around the edge of Upper Boroso.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m mʷ mʷ: m: m̩ | n n: n:ʲ1 n̩ | ŋ ŋʷ ŋʷ: ŋ: ŋ̩ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p pʷ pʰ pʰʷ | ᵐbʷ ᵐb | t t:ʲ2 tʰ | d:ʲ3 ⁿd | k kʷ kʰ kʰʷ | ᵑgʷ ᵑg | (ʔ)4 | |||||||||
| Fricative | (ɸ)5 | f fʷ | v vʷ | (ð)6 | s | z | ç7 | ʝ8 | x9 xʷ | ɣ ɣʷ | [h]10 | |||||
| Lateral approximant | l l̩ | ʟ ʟʷ ʟ̩ | ||||||||||||||
| Lateral fricative | ɬ | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r r̩ | |||||||||||||||
| Blends | pm pmʷ | tn | kŋ kŋʷ |
- Also reconstructed as /ɲ/
- Also reconstructed as /t͡ʃ/ or /c/
- Also reconstructed as /d͡ʒ/ or /ɟ/, or prenasalised /ᶮd͡ʒ/ or /ᶮɟ/
- Phonemic status unclear as always accompanied by nasalisation
- Unclear quality; variously reflected as merging with /h/ or /p/
- Phonemic status unclear as mostly occurs as an allophone of /t/ between vowels
- Also reconstructed as /ʃ/ or /ɕ/
- Also reconstructed as /ʒ/ or /ʑ/
- When /x/ doesn't surface as [h]; from older *kx variously reflected as [x] or [h]
- Syllable initially or between vowels, allophone of /x/
| Vowels | Front | Central | Back | |||
| Close | i i:: i: | u u:: u: | ||||
| Close-mid | e e:: e: | o o:: o: | ||||
| Mid | (ə)1 | |||||
| Open | a a:: a: | ɑ ɑ:: ɑ: | ||||
- Phonemic status unclear; arguably just epenthetic and used to break up illegal clusters
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Proto-Marianic. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
| Proto-MarianicOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
| ā/a:/ | a/a/ | â/a::/ | b/p/ | bw/pʷ/ | d/t/ | ď/d:ʲ/1 | e/e/ | ē/e:/ | ê/e::/ |
| f/f/ | fw/fʷ/ | g/k/ | gw/kʷ/ | ḫ/x/2 | h/x/, [h]3 | hw/xʷ/ | î/i::/ | i/i/ | ī/i:/ |
| k/kʰ/ | kw/kʰʷ/ | l/l/ | l̥/l̩/ | m/m/ | md/ⁿd/ | mg/ᵑg/ | mgw/ᵑgʷ/ | mm/m:/ | mmw/mʷ:/ |
| mw/mʷ/ | m̥/m̩/ | n/n/ | ň/n:ʲ/4 | nb/ᵐb/ | nbw/ᵐbʷ/ | nn/n:/ | n̥/n̩/ | ō/o:/ | ô/o::/ |
| o/o/ | p/pʰ/ | pw/pʰʷ/ | r/r/ | r̥/r̩/ | ś/ɬ/ | s/s/ | š/ç/5 | t/tʰ/ | ť/t:ʲ/6 |
| u/u/ | û/u::/ | ū/u:/ | v/v/ | vw/vʷ/ | w/w/ | y/j/ | z/z/ | ž/ʝ/7 | ð/ð/8 |
| ł/ʟ/ | łw/ʟʷ/ | ł̥/ʟ̩/ | ŋ/ŋ/ | ŋw/ŋʷ/ | ŋŋ/ŋ:/ | ŋŋw/ŋʷ:/ | ŋ̊/ŋ̩/ | ə/ə/9 | ƒ/ɸ/10 |
| ɣ/ɣ/ | ɣw/ɣʷ/ | ɑ/ɑ/ | ɑ̂/ɑ::/ | ɑ̄/ɑ:/ | ʔ/ʔ/11 | ||||
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] | |||||||||
- Also reconstructed as /d͡ʒ/ or /ɟ/, or prenasalised /ᶮd͡ʒ/ or /ᶮɟ/
- When /x/ doesn't surface as [h]; from older *kx variously reflected as [x] or [h]
- Syllable initially or between vowels
- Also reconstructed as /ɲ/
- Also reconstructed as /ʃ/ or /ɕ/
- Also reconstructed as /t͡ʃ/ or /c/
- Also reconstructed as /ʒ/ or /ʑ/
- Phonemic status unclear as mostly occurs as an allophone of /t/ between vowels, loan words only
- Phonemic status unclear; arguably just epenthetic and used to break up illegal clusters, loan words only
- Unclear quality; variously reflected as merging with /h/ or /p/, loan words only
- Phonemic status unclear as always accompanied by nasalisation, loan words only
