Proto-North-Socoan language

Proto-North-Socoan (PNS) is the reconstructed common ancestor of the North-Socoan language family.

Grammar
Proto-North-Socoan is a synthetic language and head-initial language; grammatical information is primarily expressed using suffixes.

Number
The plural in Proto-North-Socoan is formed using word reduplication, and the collective is formed using the suffix *-iqum.

Syntax
Proto-North-Socoan is an object–verb–subject language. Adjectives follow nouns; adverbs follow verbs.

Numbers

 * 0: *jaqete
 * 1: *nemi
 * 2: *qu
 * 3: *ptaselim
 * 4: *mecaj
 * 5: *qiu
 * 6: *taru
 * 7: *meum
 * 8: *miqu
 * 9: *unsej