Proto-Sapiens [WLD]
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Language type
Proto-Conlang
Species
Human/humanoid
About Proto-Sapiens
This is an attempt to reconstruct the primordial humankind's language: Proto-Sapiens. It is being reconstructed by using the comparative method. However, we don't have a time machine, so that we can't go back in time and see how this language, if it ever existed, worked. Anyway, I'll try my best to reconstruct it. It probably had a complex agglutinating morphology with an SOV syntax structure, however, it's largely unknown. It's thought to have been spoken at about 100.000 years ago.
Sample of Proto-SapiensCan't find any yet.
Phonology
| Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | g | q | |||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | h | |||||||||||||
| Lateral approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Approximant | j | w | ||||||||||||||
| Trill | r | |||||||||||||||
| Click | ǃ | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | Front | Back | ||
| Close | i | u | ||
| Close-mid | e | o | ||
| Open | a | |||
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Proto-Sapiens. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
 Proto-SapiensOrthography | |||||||||||
| !/ǃ/ | *// | Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ee/e/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/g/ | Hh/h/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Ll/l/ |
| Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | NG ng/ŋ/ | Oo/o/ | Pp/p/ | Qq/q/ | Rr/r/ | Ss/s/ | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ |
| ✖ Unknown alphabetical order | |||||||||||
