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Proto-Human is the reconstructed common ancestor of all Human languages. There is no written record of Proto-Human; all of its features are proposed based off of inherited features in all Human languages through the process of the comparative method and internal reconstruction, among other methods.
Proto-Human is believed to have been spoken between __ and __ during the beginnings of humanity. Evidence from certain irregular forms that controversially points to Proto-Human predating humanity by approximately - years; however, what predates Proto-Human beyond this point is generally uncertain, with many proposing God Tongue as an ancestor.
As speakers of Proto-Human became gradually isolated from eachother, the regional dialects of Proto-Human diverged, as each dialect went through a series of systematic changes in pronunciation, morphology, and vocabulary. Over time these dialects began to form mutual unintelligible languages within the Proto-Human language family.
History
Phonology
Consonants
| Labial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nasals | *m | *n | *ɲ | *ŋ | *ɴ |
| Plosives | Unaspirated Voiceless | *p | *t | *k | *q | |
| Plosives | Aspirated Voiceless | *pʰ | *tʰ | *kʰ | *qʰ | |
| Plosives | Unaspirated Voiced | *b | *d | *g | *ɢ | |
| Plosives | Aspirated Voiced | *bʰ | *dʰ | *gʰ | *ɢʰ | |
| Ejectives | *p’ | *t’ | *k’ | *q’ | |
| Fricatives | Voiceless | *f | *s | *ʃ | *ç | *x | |
| Fricatives | Voiced | *v | *z | *ʒ | *ɣ | ||
| Liquids | *l | *r | *j |