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Proto-World update

I haven't visited my Tumblr in quite a while and I'd like to update you people on what I've thought of about Proto-World. I have further proof; Proto-Sino-Tibetan *p/ba, Proto-Turkic *apa, and Proto-Afroasiatic *ʔabw- all seem to descend from the same nursery of [aba] ~ [ʔapa].

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Proto-World/Proto-Human: a possible language

Proto-Human is a language that I've been thinking about for a while. I analysed a few proto-languages (such as Proto-Uralic or Proto-Indo-European) and I've began to notice a possible pattern.

For example, Proto-Sino-Tibetan *hu and Proto-Indo-European *h₁su, both meaning "good", clearly have some relation to each other, with P.I.E adding the 's' to the word being a possible concept.

Proto-Uralic *roć and Proto-Indo-European *dos draw more similarities than you may think they do; they both mean "bad", they start with a trill and end with a sound from the [t͡sʲ] ~ [s] sound range, indicating a possible /sʲ ~ ɕ/ sound in the proto-word, and regarding the trill part, both /r/ and /d/ have been seen often diverging from /t/, which might be the origin of both of these sounds in the word.

Thus, the Proto-Human language might've used */hu/ as "good" and */toɕ ~ tosʲ/ as bad.