Nambāno

Nambāno is a Northern Gäj language spoken throughout the Qnōp' lowlands in the first millennium AGS.

Phonological Stages from Proto-Northern Gäj
The following sound changes are reconstructed to have occurred, roughly in the order presented, in the development of Nambāno from its ancestor Proto-Northern Gäj, a later stage of the Proto-Gäj language.

Pre-Nambāno
The earliest stage of the Nambāno language which can be obtained through internal reconstruction is Pre-Nambāno. This language is thought to have been spoken by the first Northern-Gäj people to migrate out of Krobu and into the lowlands of Qnōp' in around the second century AGS. Three characteristic sound changes can be reconstructed: the merger of PNGäj *æ *ə into *a, the first debuccalisation of fricatives and the lengthening of stressed vowels in open syllables; which are presented below with example words. In each example given, the start (PNGäj) and end point (Pre-Nambāno) for each word is shown, with relevant intermediate steps underlined.

Old Nambāno
Old Nambāno (ONmb) is an unattested older stage of the Nambāno language, obtained by internal reconstruction and comparison of early written transcriptions of Nambāno.