Proto-Inuit language

Proto-Inuit
Reconstruction of	Inuit languages
Era	ca. 1000 CE
Reconstructed ancestors	Proto-Eskaleut Proto-Eskimoan

Proto-Inuit is the reconstructed proto-language of the Inuit languages, probably spoken about 1000 years BP by the Neo-Eskimo Thule people.^[1] It evolved from Proto-Eskimo, from which the Yupik languages also evolved.^[2]

Phonology

Doug Hitch proposes the following chart of consonant phonemes:^[3]

Proto-Inuit phonemic chart

	Labial	Apical	Lateral	Palatal	Velar	Uvular
voiceless	p	t	ɬ	c	k	q
voiced	v	ʐ	l	j	ɣ	ʁ
nasal	m	n			ŋ

References

1. Dorais 2014, p. 104.
2. Dorais 2014, p. 101.
3. Hitch 2017, p. 4.

Works cited

• Dorais, Louis-Jacques (2014). The Language of the Inuit: Syntax, Semantics, and Society in the Arctic. MQUP. ISBN 978-0-7735-8176-0.
• Hitch, Doug (2017-12-24). Maddeaux, Ruth (ed.). "Proto-Inuit Phonology" (PDF). Toronto Working Papers in Linguistics. 39. University of Toronto. Retrieved 2018-09-26.

Further reading