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Reconstructed ancestor of the Inuit languages From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Proto-Inuit is the reconstructed proto-language of the Inuit languages, probably spoken about 1000 years BP by the Neo-Eskimo Thule people.[1] It evolved from Proto-Eskimo, from which the Yupik languages also evolved.[2]
Proto-Inuit | |
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Reconstruction of | Inuit languages |
Era | ca. 1000 CE |
Reconstructed ancestors |
Doug Hitch proposes the following chart of consonant phonemes:[3]
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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