Proto-Attere

Proto-Attere is the reconstructed common ancestors of the Attere languages. It is thought to have originally been spoken in Bay of Lokkat in the continent shores.

Like other proto-languages, there is no record of Proto-Attere. From the common vocabulary which has been reconstructed on the basis of present-day Attere languages it appears that agriculture, fishing and the use of boats were already known to the Attere people before their expantion before their expansion began, but iron-working was still unknown. This places the date of the start of the expansion somewhere between 700BGS.

Phonology

 * *l sometimes refered as *L it is a tricky phoneme in Proto-Attere language, it is believed to be [ɺ~r].


 * As a result of assimilation of *ʔ before a common consonant Geminate it, eg: *wusuʔ-halak:a → *wusuh-halak:a
 * The consonants *č *ń *y in Vakeye and Ekerre are interpreted as *Č or *Ń, these represent that *č *ń *y at some point merged into a undefined consonant, laterly becoming *z and *ñ in Ekerre.
 * Geminated consonants that are not due to *ʔ assimilation are not present in any Ansangic language, they have become either fricatives or glottal stops, like in tsa’a < *tsak:a.
 * Merger of *r *l is evident in many Vakeyeic and Ekerre languages, normally merging to [ɺ] or [ɾ].
 * Frication of *č in Ansangic languages led to *s and *ć.
 * The Palatal series is discussed to be not a thing but the simple allophony of *-y in several placements alongside the language, but this hypothesis is discarted due to not clearly describe how the Frication of *č happened, whoever this theory is attested for Ekerre where the Pre-Proto-Ekerre language had *-y- as allophone of *-ɟ- < *č and *-ʎ- < *ń.

Vowels have tendencies to unround in later atteric languages this points us that vowels in Proto-Attere never were rounded but rather slightly rounded.
 * In Pre-Proto state Proto-Attere had *Nb *Nd *Nɡ consonants, in continental dialects it merged with unvoiced and geminated consonants, whoever in Ansang Archipelago it remained into Modern Ansang language and dialects, it is said they came from *Nb *Nd *Nɡ < *Nə{b, d, ɡ} the schwa become null, an example: *houᶰdêr < **houNdêr < **houNədêr.
 * *μ is a unknown nasal consonant, that following most reconstructions of Proto-Attere made part in some syllables, with back vowels, that later colored the vowel to round.

Morphology
Atteric roots have the syllable formation (C)V(V)(C), C is any consonant and V is any vowel,

Pronouns
Pronouns in Proto-Attere as in daughter languages are clitic pronouns, this means that the pronouns do not stand alone, they cannot they must come along with a verb or noun.

Numerals
Proto-Attere is base-10