Proto-Inuit language facts for kids
Quick facts for kids Proto-Inuit |
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| Reconstruction of | Inuit languages |
| Era | ca. 1000 CE |
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Reconstructed
ancestors |
Proto-Eskaleut
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Proto-Inuit is the reconstructed proto-language of the Inuit languages, probably spoken about 1000 years BP by the Neo-Eskimo Thule people. It evolved from Proto-Eskimo, from which the Yupik languages also evolved.
Phonology
Doug Hitch proposes the following chart of consonant phonemes:
| Labial | Apical | Lateral | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |
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| voiceless | p | t | ɬ | c | k | q |
| voiced | v | ʐ | l | j | ɣ | ʁ |
| nasal | m | n | ŋ |
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