Wiktionary:About Proto-Berber

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Proto-Berber is a reconstructed language, representing what Maarten Kossmann describes as a Roman-era koiné ancestral to all extant Berber languages. It is established through the comparative method (though not all reconstructible items should be reconstructed, due to historical considerations). Proto-Berber is this sense is not meant to include the language ancestral to the Libyco-Berber inscriptions nor to the extinct Guanche language (or its lexifier, if it was not in fact Berber).

Notation

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Entries should be whole reconstructed words, not just roots. Furthermore, all morpheme boundaries should be broken with hyphens, including the nominal prefix.

The following notation is used on Wiktionary:

Vowel phonemes
Front Central Back
i ə u
e ă
a

The vowel *ə is thought to result from a merger of *ĭ and *ŭ, but as the timing of this merger and its reconstruction is unclear, *ə can be reconstructed unless there is strong evidence for either *ĭ or *ŭ.

Consonant phonemes
Labial Dental Postalv./
Palatal
Velar Uvular Glottal
Plain Pha. Plain Lab.
Nasal m mm n nn
Stop  
b
 
bb
t
d
tt
dd
 
ṭṭ
 

ǵ
ḱḱ
ǵǵ
k
g
kk
gg
 
ggʷ
qq
 
ʔ
 
Fricative f
β
ff
 
s
z
ss
dd
 
 
ẓẓ
š
 
šš
 
 
ɣ
Approximant
(Lateral)
y yy
l ll
Trill r rr

See Wikipedia on Proto-Berber phonology, which is based on Kossmann (1999). This system is revised, with the consonant system almost unchanged, but the vowel system taken from van Putten (2018). Prasse's *H is considered to belong to a stage prior to Proto-Berber.