Proper noun
Proto-Altaic
The hypothetical prehistoric ancestor of all Altaic languages, the existence of which is now often rejected.
1 Contains the Proto-Altaic dual suffix -/rʲV/ : "both breasts" – "chest" – "heart". Source: Internet
2 Contains the Proto-Altaic singulative suffix -/nV/: "one breast". Source: Internet
In the middle of words, clusters of two consonants were allowed in Proto-Altaic as reconstructed by Starostin et al. Source: Internet
It contains 2,800 proposed cognate sets, a set of sound laws based on those proposed sets, and a number of grammatical correspondences, as well as a few important changes to the reconstruction of Proto-Altaic. Source: Internet
Similarly, the paper by Kaiser and Shevoroshkin is much older than the newest Altaic Etymological Dictionary (2003; see Altaic languages article) and therefore assumes a somewhat different phonological system for Proto-Altaic. Source: Internet
The following correspondences (slightly modified to account for the reconstruction of Proto-Altaic by Starostin et al. Source: Internet