I try to do the reconstruction of Eskimo-Aleut family.
In order to this, I work with twelve languages and the
studies of Kurt Bergsland, Michael Fortescue, Ken
Harper, René Bonnerjea, Anthony Woodbury, Michael
Krauss and my Cumberlands Eskimo teacher. At the
moment, Mudraks reconstruction is, for me, very odd.
PHONOLOGY
The phonemic inventory of Proto-Eskimo-Aleut consists
of:
/p t c^ k kW d q qW s x xW X XW v g gW g. G.W m M n ng
ngW r y w W/
/a a: i i: u u: schwa/
where some description phonemics are:
d voiced dental fricative
X voiceless uvular (plain) fricative
g voiced velar fricative
g. voiced uvular fricative
M voiceless bilabial nasals
r' voiced alveolar flap (tap)
W voceless bilabial glide
PHONOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS IN ALEUT DIALECTS (ATTUAN,
ATKAN)
The principal innovations of Aleut dialects phonology
are:
a) the merger of Proto-Aleut *d and *y to *y in the
Attuan dialect.
b) the change in Atkan dialect of *w and *W to *m and
*M, respectively (shared independently by Syrenikski
Yupik).
c) the shift of nasals to corresponding voiced
fircatives before oral consonants in both dialects,
for example Atkan qanglaaX, Attuan qaglaaX < *qanglaX
raven. This also happend in all of Inuit-Inupiaq
languages.
I have to study very much, but I think that this
results are interesting for nostraticist.
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