Proto-Pogeduimogan

Proto-Pogeduimogan pogeduimogane daka

Pronunciation	/pɔ.ɣɛ.ðʊ̯i.mɔ.ˈɣa.nɛ ˈða.ka/
Period	ca. 7000BK – 3200BK
Spoken in	Ytdobogȧn Peninsula, Amalan
Total speakers	Unknown
Writing system	Ydtobogȧndeki
Classification	Pogeduimogan, Ydtobogȧntiaky
Typology
Basic word order	VSO
Morphology	Fusional
Alignment	Tripartite
Credits
Created by	Sḿtuval

Phonology[]

Proto-Pogeduimogan did not make a distinction between voiced and voiceless consonants like its predecessor. Many vowels changed and some vowels merged due to sound change. Both tables have romanizations for each phoneme.

Reconstructed Proto-Pogeduimogan Consonant Inventory
	Labial	Dental	Alveolar	Palatal	Velar
Nasal	*m m		*n n		*ŋ ŋ
Plosive	*p p	*t t			*k k
Fricative	*β b		*ð d		*ɣ g
Approximant			*ɹ r	*j i	*w u
Lateral			*l l

Reconstructed Proto-Pogeduimogan Vowel Inventory
	Front	Back
High	*i i	*u u
Mid	*ɛ e	*ɔ o
Low	*a a

Grammar[]

The locative and ablative cases were replaced in part by postpositions. Also, the masculine and feminine genders merged into a common gender. Due to this, only some suffixes from each of three of the inflectional paradigms were used in a new merged inflectional paradigm.

Verbs[]

Unlike nouns, verbs had only one inflectional paradigm.

The marking of transitivity disappeared in Proto-Pogeduimogan. In some cases, however, transitivity became a lexically marked quality, as the original suffixes were kept but heavily eroded.

More verbs than before are irregular, and due to sound change (and common usage in some verbs) many regular verbs became moderately or heavily irregular. Some examples of heavily irregular verbs are at, guik, temeter, demat.

Proto-Pogeduimogan verbs have become slightly more irregular. Person and number were not marked in verbs, and in other related languages aren't either.

Verbal Distinction[]

Verbs distinguished four things: tense, aspect, mood, and voice.

The three tenses are: anterior past, past, non-past. The anterior past was used to express the pluperfect, the remote past, and the relative past. The past was used to express the perfect, and the recent past. The non-past expressed the present, the future, and relative future.

The three aspects are: repetitive, initial, progressive. The repetitive expressed habituality and iterativity. The initial expressed the inchoative and prospective aspects. It also expressed simple present in the present. The progressive expressed both the continuous and the progressive.

The four moods are: indicative, subjunctive, subjunctive II, and imperative. The first subjunctive (or subjunctive I) was used in the same situations as the older subjunctive and conditional moods. The second subjunctive (or subjunctive II) was used in the same situations as the older optative and potential moods. The interrogative was not considered a separate mood, and unlike other moods was expressed using the auxiliary adverb kipa.

The three voices (there may have been more, though) are: active, passive, and antipassive. There may have been a reflexive voice. However, reciprocal expressions were rare and not regarded as a distinct voice in verbal inflection.

Verbs conjugated for active voice are slightly shorter than for others because active voice is unmarked.

Conjugation[]

Proto-Pogeduimogan verbs distinguish less things than in Proto-Ydtobogȧntiaky and as a result use less suffixes. Some verbs add an -e before some suffixes to make the word easier to pronounce.

A stands for anterior past, P stands for past, N stand for non-past.

Active Suffixes
	Repetitive A	Repetitive P	Repetitive N	Initial A	Initial P	Initial N	Progressive A	Progressive P	Progressive N
Indicative	ru	ruot	ruo	rer	ret	re	rintr	rid	rint
Subjunctive I	iou	uot	uo	iar	t	ia	ientr	ed	ent
Subjunctive II	gou	duot	duo	gu	det	de	guintr	did	dint
Imperative			nuo			ne			nint

Passive Suffixes
	Repetitive A	Repetitive P	Repetitive N	Initial A	Initial P	Initial N	Progressive A	Progressive P	Progressive N
Indicative	rugod	ruotod	ruogod	rerod	retod	regod	rintrod	ridod	rintod
Subjunctive I	iougod	uotod	uogod	iarod	tod	iagod	ientrod	edod	entod
Subjunctive II	gougod	duotgod	duogod	guod	detod	degod	guintrod	didod	dintod
Imperative			nuogod			negod			nintod

Antipassive Suffixes
	Repetitive A	Repetitive P	Repetitive N	Initial A	Initial P	Initial N	Progressive A	Progressive P	Progressive N
Indicative	ruiem	ruotem	ruoiem	rerem	retem	reiem	rintrem	ridem	rintem
Subjunctive I	iouiem	uotem	uoiem	iarem	tem	iaiem	ientrem	edem	entem
Subjunctive II	gouiem	duotem	duoiem	guiem	detem	deiem	guintrem	didem	dintem
Imperative			nuoiem			neiem			nintem

Nouns[]

The five declensions of Proto-Ydtobogȧntiaky changed and simplified most in Pogeduimogan languages due to sound change and less disambiguation resulting from less cases. This and the reduction of three genders to two caused great similarity in many declinational suffixes, which led to even less cases in some later languages. Also, many plural declinational suffixes completely disappeared. They were replaced by their singular counterparts with an added -i marking plurality taken from the plural ergative, dative, and genitive suffixes of most Proto-Ydtobogȧntiaky nouns. In the first declension, the -i remained the same, but in (part of) the third declension, the -i gave way to sound change, becoming an -e.

First Declension[]

Nouns of this declension are always common.

	Singular	Plural	Example (Sg.)	Example (Pl.)
Ergative	n/m/l	ni/mi/li	tanem	tanemi
Accusative	t	ti	tanet	taneti
Absolutive	t	ti	tanet	taneti
Dative	r	ri	taner	taneri
Genitive	b	bi	taneb	tanebi
Instrumental	g	gi	taneg	tanegi

Second Declension[]

Nouns of this declension are always neuter.

	Singular	Plural	Example (Sg.)	Example (Pl.)
Ergative	a	i	geta	geti
Accusative	o	u	geto	getu
Absolutive	a	i	geta	geti
Dative	ar	ai	getar	getai
Genitive	e	ei	gete	getei
Instrumental	o	u	geto	getu

Third Declension[]

Nouns of this declension can be either gender.

	Singular	Plural	Example (Sg.)	Example (Pl.)
Ergative	k	ke	dek	deke
Accusative	g	go	deg	dego
Absolutive	b	bo	deb	debo
Dative	r	re	der	dere
Genitive	p	pe	dep	depe
Instrumental	ŋ	ŋo	deŋ	deŋo