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Proto-Inuit language

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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[edit]

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

^ Dorais 2014, p. 101.

^ Hitch 2017, p. 4.

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.

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