Proto-Meñśwe language

Proto-Meñśwe (*Meñśwe ) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the Meñśwe language family.

Vowels
The language follows a backness vowel harmony that affects all affixes and the head of compounds, for example:

mañ 'language' + śwe 'human' → Meñśwe 'Meñśwe'

qu- 'like' + mewi 'child' → qymewi 'like a child, childish'