Reconstruction:Proto-Yoruboid/ʊ́-ɓã́

This Proto-Yoruboid entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Possibly an innovation by Proto-Yoruboid speakers, since no languages have similar cognates, except possibly Edo áranmwẹn. Its descendant languages converted /ɓ/ first to /ɣ/ or /w/, and in Standard Yoruba, the /w/ converted to /h/, a phenomenon seen in many other words descended from Proto-Yoruboid. The root *ɓã́ may refer to an obsolete term referring to speech or language.

• IPA^(key): /ʊ́.ɓã́/

*ʊ́-ɓã́

1. tongue

• Igala: ímálu
• Proto-Edekiri: *ʊ-wã́
  • Proto-Yoruba: *ʊ-wã́, *ɪ-wã́
    • Olukumi: uwán
    • Ede
      • Ifè: iŋá
    • Northwest Yoruba: ahọ́n
      • Yoruba: ahọ́n (Standard Yoruba)
    • Northeast Yoruba: ighọ́n
    • Central Yoruba
      • Ekiti Yoruba: ụọ́n
      • Igbomina Yoruba: awọ́n
  • Proto-Southeast-Yoruba-Itsekiri
    • Southeast Yoruba
      • Ondo & Ikale Yoruba: iwán
      • Ao Yoruba uwán
      • Ijebu Yoruba: uwọ́n
      • Ilajẹ Yoruba: ìwọ́n
    • Itsekiri: iwán