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Proto-Inuit language

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Proto-Inuit
Reconstruction ofInuit languages
Eraca. 1000 CE
Reconstructed
ancestors

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]

Phonology

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Doug Hitch proposes the following chart of consonant phonemes:[3]

Proto-Inuit phonemic chart
Labial Apical Lateral Palatal Velar Uvular
voiceless p t ɬ c k q
voiced v ʐ l j ɣ ʁ
nasal m n ŋ

References

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  1. ^ Dorais 2014, p. 104.
  2. ^ Dorais 2014, p. 101.
  3. ^ Hitch 2017, p. 4.

Works cited

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  • Dorais, Louis-Jacques (2014). The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic. MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-8176-0.
  • Hitch, Doug (2017-12-24). Maddeaux, Ruth (ed.). "Proto-Inuit Phonology" (PDF). Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. 39. University of Toronto. Retrieved 2018-09-26.

Further reading

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