Proto-North-Socoan language

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

Grammar
Proto-North-Socoan is a head-initial language, grammatical information being primarily expressed using suffixes.

Number
In Proto-North-Socoan, plurals are formed using word reduplication, and collectives are formed using the suffix -iqum.

Syntax
The basic word order is OVS.

Numbers

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