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Proto-Uto-Aztecan language
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The Proto-Uto-Aztecan language (abbreviated PUA; also sometimes Uto-Aztekan, Utoaztekan) is the hypothetical common ancestor of the Uto-Aztecan languages.
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Proto-Uto-Aztecan is reconstructed as having an unusual five-vowel system: *i *a *u *o *ɨ. Langacker (1970) demonstrated that the fifth vowel should be reconstructed as *ɨ as opposed to *e—there had been a long-running dispute over the proper reconstruction (Campbell 1997:136).
| Bilabial | Coronal | Palatal | Velar | Labialized velar |
Glottal | |
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| Stop | *p | *t | *k | *kʷ | *ʔ | |
| Affricate | *c | |||||
| Fricative | *s | *h | ||||
| Nasal | *m | *n | *ŋ | |||
| Rhotic | *r | |||||
| Semivowel | *y | *w |
Note that in Americanist phonetic notation,
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- Campbell, Lyle (1997). American Indian Languages: The Historical Linguistics of Native America. Oxford: Oxford University Press
- Langacker, Ronald W. (1970). "The Vowels of Proto Uto-Aztecan". International Journal of American Linguistics 36 (3): 169–180.
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