Proto-Northern Upic language

Proto-Northern Upic (PNUp) is the reconstructed ancestor of the Northern Upic languages. It is thought to have been spoken c. 2,500 - 2,000 BGS in Qnōp'.

Phonology
Below are the reconstructed phonemes of Proto-Northern Upic.

Vowels
Vowel length is reconstructed for the four cardinal vowels while the schwa *e was only short. The schwa also served as an epenthetic vowel at certain morpheme boundaries, for example the possessed noun suffix *-(e)n shown below, which only had *-e- present on consonant-final roots.