Proto-Loloish language
Proto-Loloish | |
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Reconstruction of | Loloish languages |
Reconstructed ancestor |
Proto-Loloish is the reconstructed ancestor of the Loloish languages. Reconstructions include those of David Bradley (1979), James Matisoff (2003), and Ziwo Lama (2012).
In later publications, in place of Loloish, David Bradley instead uses the term Ngwi based on a conservative autonym in the Sanie language.[1]
Bradley (1979)
Matisoff (2003)
Li (2011)
Li Yongsui (2011) reconstructs Proto-Lolo-Burmese (Proto-Mian-Yi 缅彝) based on 30 languages.
Lama (2012)
Lama (2012) reconstructs 37 consonants for Proto-Loloish (which he calls Proto-Nisoic), 7 of which (marked in green) can occur as syllable finals. The glides /w/ and /j/ occur medially.
Labial | Dental | Alveolar | Alveolo-palatal | Velar | Glottal | ||||||||
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Stops | Voiceless | p | t | ts | tɕ | k | ʔ | ||||||
Voiceless aspirated | pʰ | tʰ | tsʰ | tɕʰ | kʰ | h | |||||||
Voiced | b | d | dz | dʑ | ɡ | ||||||||
Prenasalized | mb | nd | ndz | ndʑ | ŋɡ | ||||||||
Fricatives | Voiceless | s | x | ||||||||||
Voiced | z | ʑ | ɣ | ||||||||||
Nasals | Voiced | m | n | ɲ | ŋ | ||||||||
Liquids and Semivowels |
Voiced | -w- | l | r | -j- |
- Vowels (8): /i/, /y/, /ɯ/, /u/, /e/, /o/, /ɔ/, /a/
- Tones (5): 1, 2, 3 (unchecked tones), H, L (checked tones)
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