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The Ancestral Vowel

Introduction In contrast to its unusually rich consonant system, the Ancestral vowel system is the picture of simplicity. It consists of the five most common vowels /i e a o u/, pronounced (I believe) in more or less the Spanish … Continue reading

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The Ancestral Consonant

Introduction At first glance, the Ancestral consonant system is breathtakingly complex, with an unheard of number of complex consonants. On closer inspection, however, I believe the Ancestral speaker understood it to consist of ten distinct places of articulation and ten … Continue reading

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