Oppai branch
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The Oppai branch is one half of the Kasshi-Oppai Family. Oppai is the largest language in the branch.
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Proto-Oppai
Proto-Oppai is the reconstructed ancestor of the Oppai branch.
Phonology
| Consonants | ||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bilabial | Labiod. | Dental | Palatal | Velar | Uvular | Glottal | ||||||||||
| Stop | p | t | k | q | ||||||||||||
| Nasal | m | n | ŋ | |||||||||||||
| Fricative | f | s | x | h | ||||||||||||
| Approximants | w | r | y | |||||||||||||
| Lateral Approximant | l | |||||||||||||||
| Vowels | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Front | Central | Back | ||||||||
| High | i | ü | u | |||||||
| Medium | e | o | ||||||||
| Low | a | |||||||||
Vowels could be long or short. Long ü is romanized as ű.
Changes
Prenasalized stops in Proto-Kasshi-Oppai merged with the nasals, while the fricatives v and z merged with w and r. c merged with k, while ñ moved back to nasal. Syllabic consonants were lost. After short vowels, they became non-syllabic with the preceding vowel lengthened. After long vowels, they became consonant-a syllables, while after consonants, they became a+consonant. E.g., al' -> āl, āl' -> āla, afl' -> afal.
Vowel sequences merged:
- ia -> yē, īa -> īye, iā -> iyē, īā -> īyē, ai, āi, aī, āī -> ē
- ya -> ye, yā -> yē
- ua -> wō, ūa -> īwo, uā -> uwō, ūā -> ūwō au, āu, aū, āū -> ō
- wa -> wo, wā -> wō
- iu, īu, iū, īū -> ű
- yu -> ü, yū -> ű
- ui -> wī, ūi -> ūwi, uī -> uwī, ūī -> ūwī
Grammar
Nouns
The gender system of Proto-Kasshi-Oppai was completely lost, classifiers came into use.
Number
- Dual: -ri
- Plural: -ŋa
Case
- Nominative: --
- Accusative: -hyē
- Genetive: -āf (-yēf, -wōf)
- Dative: ār (-yēr, -wōr)
