Wiktionary:About Proto-Mari
Proto-Mari is the reconstructed ancestor of Eastern Mari and Western Mari.
Transcription edit
For the sake of consistency, the following transcription is chosen for Wiktionary:
| labial | dental | alveolar | palatal | palatovelar | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stop | voiceless | p | t | č | ć | k |
| voiced | d | g | ||||
| Sibilant | voiceless | s | š | ś | ||
| voiced | ž | ź | ||||
| Approximant | w | j | ||||
| Nasal | m | n | ń | ŋ | ||
| Liquid | l | r | ľ | |||
| Front | Back | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| unrounded | rounded | unrounded | rounded | |
| Close | i | ü | u | |
| Close-Mid | ĭ | ü̆ | ŭ | |
| Open-Mid | e | o | ||
| Open | ä | a | å | |
- A reducted vowel *ə appears in non-initial syllables.
Descendants edit
All Proto-Mari reconstructions should either feature both Mari descendants or any one descendant, provided that a Proto-Uralic ancestor is reconstructed. The current standard for listing descendants is as such:
* {{desc|mhr|}}
* {{desc|mrj|}}
References edit
- Aikio, Ante. 2014. "On the reconstruction of Proto-Mari vocalism". In Journal of Language Relationship 11, pp. 125–157.
- Gábor Bereczki (2013) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Tscheremissischen (Mari) [Etymological dictionary of the Cheremiss language (Mari)], Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, →ISBN