Proto Telic
|
| Period
|
c. -2000 YP
|
| Spoken in
|
Northwestern Peilaš
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| Total speakers
|
unknown
|
| Writing system
|
unknown
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| Classification
|
Telic
|
| Typology
|
| Basic word order
|
SOV
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| Morphology
|
Agglutinative
|
| Alignment
|
Nominative-Accusative
|
| Credits
|
| Created by
|
Frislander
|
Proto-Telic was a language spoken in the north-west area of Peilaš.
Phonology
Consonants
|
labial |
alveolar |
palatal |
velar
|
| plosive
|
*p |
*t |
*c |
*k
|
| fricative
|
|
*s |
|
|
| nasal
|
*m |
*n |
*ɲ |
*ŋ
|
| approximant
|
*w |
*l |
*j |
|
Vowels
| high
|
*i |
|
*u
|
| mid
|
*e *e: |
*ə |
*o *o:
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| low
|
|
a a: |
|
Syllables
Syllable structure was C(G)V(N), where 'G' is w or j and 'N' was a coda nasal or geminate stop in word-internal position. CG was not common and is restricted to *pj, *pw, *kw, and *kj.
Primary stress was on word-initial syllables, which was also the only location where long vowels were contrastive. Secondary stress was assigned afterwards on "full" vowels (i.e. *e *a *o). A number of suffixes indeed seem to have had stressed and unstressed alternants which would be used depending on whether they followed a stressed or unstressed vowel.