Proto-Gulai [PGUL]
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Language type
A priori
Species
Human/humanoid
About Proto-Gulai
Reconstructed ancestor of the Gulai languages, a family endemic to Goal and predominantly spoken around Lake Goal.
Read more about it here.
Read more about it here.
Sample of Proto-Gulai[view] Kayowuon, ƀaymiao.
Don't do it for me, do it for yourself.[view all texts]
Don't do it for me, do it for yourself.[view all texts]
Language family relationships
Language treeGulai
⤷ Proto-Gulai
⤷ Proto-Gulai
Phonology
Consonants | Bilabial | Labio- dental | Alveolar | Palatal | Labio- velar | Velar | Glottal | |||||||
Nasal | m | n [nʲ]1 | [ŋ]2 | |||||||||||
Plosive | p | b | t | d | k | ʔ | ||||||||
Fricative | f | [ɣ]3 | ||||||||||||
Affricate | [t͡s]4 | [d͡z]5 | ||||||||||||
Approximant | j | w | ɰ | |||||||||||
Flap | [ⱱ]6 | [ɾ]7 | ||||||||||||
Implosive | ɓ | ɗ |
- realization of /nj/, allophone of /n/
- before [k], allophone of /n/
- lightly fricated, free variation, allophone of /ɰ/
- realization of /t k/ before [i] or of /tj kj/, allophone of /t/
- realization before [i] or of /dj/, allophone of /d/
- in reduplicated morphemes, allophone of /ɓ/
- in reduplicated morphemes, allophone of /ɗ/
Vowels | Front | Back | ||
Close | i | u | ||
Close-mid | [e]1 | o | ||
Open | a |
- allophone of /i/
Orthography
Below is the orthography for Proto-Gulai. This includes all graphemes as defined in the language's phonology settings - excluding the non-distinct graphemes/polygraphs.
Proto-GulaiOrthography [edit] | |||||||||
Aa/a/ | Bb/b/ | Dd/d/ | Ff/f/ | Gg/ɰ/ | Ii/i/ | Kk/k/ | Mm/m/ | Nn/n/ | Oo/o/ |
Pp/p/ | Qq/ʔ/ | Rr[ɾ]1 | Tt/t/ | Uu/u/ | Vv[ⱱ]2 | Ww/w/ | Yy/j/ | Đđ/ɗ/ | Ƀƀ/ɓ/ |
✖ Unknown alphabetical order [change] |
- in reduplicated morphemes
- in reduplicated morphemes