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! plosive | ! plosive | ||
| /b/ | | /b/ || || /t/ /d/ || || /k/ /g/ || || | ||
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! fricative | ! fricative | ||
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! approximant | ! approximant | ||
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A voicing contrast is present only the in the plosives, with /d/ as the only common voiced plosive phoneme. /g/ | A voicing contrast is present only the in the plosives, with /d/ as the only common voiced plosive phoneme. /g/ and /b/ are rare, /p/ absent entirely. Voiceless plosives were likely aspirated, /k/ potentially with a tenuis allophone in final position, as has been posited for Soskish based on transcriptions into the Olgish alphabet. | ||
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|+ Proto-Besokian Vowels | |+ Proto-Besokian Vowels | ||
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Proto-Besokian distinguishes short and long vowels in all metric positions. Accent was tone-based and fixed on the first syllable of a word, initiating a dactylic pattern propagated into suffixes and clitics and establishing the typical Besokian high-low-low rhythm. | Proto-Besokian distinguishes short and long vowels in all metric positions. Accent was tone-based and fixed on the first syllable of a word, initiating a dactylic pattern propagated into suffixes and clitics and establishing the typical Besokian high-low-low rhythm. | ||
==Morphosyntax== | ==Morphosyntax== | ||
Proto-Besokian morphosyntax is notable for its minimalist inflection but highly complex derivational system. Matrix word order was VOS from a base-generated SVO. | Proto-Besokian morphosyntax is notable for its minimalist inflection but highly complex derivational system. Matrix word order was VOS from a base-generated SVO. | ||