Proto-Norlokian language

The Proto-Norlokian language was the common ancestor of all Norlokian languages.

Phonology
The Proto-Norlokian language had three phonemic vowels, or six, if we count the long vowels as well, since the language had vowel-length distinction:. It isn't quite known, if these vowels had allophones depending on the kind of consonant they were following like in Old Dwarven: while it is generally viewed that at this stage, the palatalization and pharyngealization of consonants were far more audible on the consonant itself rather than the vowel that followed it, the fact that both Dwarven and Halfling developed allophonic vowel-colouring and eventually phonemicized these coloured vowels seems to indicate that feature possibly already existing in Proto-Norlokian.


 * The dark dorsal approximant must have been some kind of labio-larynhgeal or labio-uvular approximant, like in Old Dwarven.
 * The dark dorsal stops could have been uvular stops  like in Old Dwarven, rather than larynhgealized velar stops
 * The exact articulation of the rhotics was unknown.
 * In Old Dwarven, the dark rhotic was a trill, the neutral rhotic  was a flap , the light rhotic  was an approximant
 * They could have been flaps with trilled allophones.