Wiktionary:About Proto-Selkup
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Proto-Selkup is the reconstructed ancestor of the Selkup languages.
Transcription
[edit]For the sake of consistency, the following transcription is chosen for Wiktionary:
| labial | dental | alveolo-palatal | velar | glottal | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | Plain | p | t | ť | k | q |
| Labialised | pw | tw | ťw | kw | qw | |
| Fricative | s | š | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
| Affricate | c | č | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ń | ŋ | ||
| Lateral | l | ľ | ||||
| Trill | r | |||||
Where j, ľ, r and ŋ does not appear word-initially.
| Front | Central | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | ||
| Close | i, ī | ü, ǖ | ï, ï̄ | u, ū | |
| Mid | e, ē | ö, ȫ | ë, ë̄ | o, ō | |
| Open | ä, ǟ | a, ā | |||
| Front | Central | Back | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Close | u | |||
| Mid | ə | |||
| Open | ä | a | ||
This phonological analysis is based on the reconstruction by Janurik (2023).
Descendants
[edit]The current standard for listing descendants is as such:
** {{desc|sel-nor|}}
** {{desc|sel-sou|-}}
*** Narym: {{l|sel-sou|}}
*** Upper Ob: {{l|sel-sou|}}
References
[edit]- T. Janurik (2023) “A protoszölkup nyelvállapot és fejleményei. Elektronikus kézirat.”, in Szamojéd Tudástár[1] (in Hungarian)