Proto-Inuit_language

Proto-Inuit language

Proto-Inuit language

Reconstructed ancestor of the Inuit languages

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]

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Phonology

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

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References

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

Works cited

  • 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.

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