Proto-Tsai-Chire
The Proto-Tsai-Chire language (PTC, sometimes shortened to Proto-Tsachire) is the ancestor of all Tsai-Chire languages.
Phonology
Vowels
| Front | Back | |
|---|---|---|
| Close | i | u |
| Mid | ø | o |
| e | ɤ | |
| Open | æ | ɑ <a> |
Every vowel can be combined with each other for a diphthong.
Consonants
| Labial | Alveolar | Velar | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plosive | p | t | k |
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ |
| Fricative | f | s | h |
| Liquid | l |
Every consonant can also be geminated!!!! Isn't that fun
Grammar
Proto-Tsai-Chire is an agglutinative language.
Cases
PTC has five cases:
| Name | Suffix | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nominative | -∅ | ||||||||||||
| Genitive | -e, -i | ||||||||||||
| Accusative | -ɑ | ||||||||||||
| Instrumental | Gen + -ju | ||||||||||||
| Locative | Gen + -n | ||||||||||||
| Vocative | -ijɑ
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