Editing Kru languages (section)

==Reconstruction==<!---[[Proto-Kru]] redirects here--->
{{Infobox proto-language
| name             = Proto-Kru
| familycolor      = Niger-Congo
| ancestor         = 
| child1 = 
| target          = Kru languages
}}
According to Marchese Zogbo (2012), Proto-Kru had:<ref>Marchese Zogbo, Lynell. 2012. ''[http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/fichiers/nigercongo/fichiers/Zogbo_Kru.pdf Kru revisited, Kru revealed] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617184019/http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/fichiers/nigercongo/fichiers/Zogbo_Kru.pdf |date=2020-06-17 }}''. Paper presented at the International Congress "Towards Proto-Niger-Congo: Comparison and Reconstruction," Paris, 18‒21 September. ([http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/fichiers/nigercongo/abstracts/zogbo.pdf Abstract] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200617185235/http://llacan.vjf.cnrs.fr/fichiers/nigercongo/abstracts/zogbo.pdf |date=2020-06-17 }})</ref>

*phonemic nasalized vowels
*four level tones
* *CVCV-(C)V and probably *CVV syllable structure. *CCV syllables, and possibly also *CVV syllables, are derived from *CVCV roots.
*SVO word order, but with much OV typology
*suffixing morphology
*perfective and imperfective aspects

Proto-Kru consonants (Marchese Zogbo 2012):
{| class="wikitable"
| p || t || k || kp
|-
| b || d || g || gb
|-
| ɓ ||  ||  || 
|-
| m || n || ŋ (?) || 
|-
|  || s ||  || 
|-
|  || l || w || 
|}

Derived consonants:
*/ɟ/ is likely derived via palatalization (*g > ɟ), e.g. *gie > ɟie.
* *c, *ɲ, *kʷ, *gʷ, *ŋʷ are derived from alveolar or velar consonants preceding high back or high front vowels.
*/ɗ/ is likely derived from *l.

Proto-Kru vowels (Marchese Zogbo 2012):
{| class="wikitable"
| ɪ || ʊ
|-
| e || o
|-
| ɛ || ɔ
|-
| a || 
|}

There is a clear bipartite division between Western and Eastern Kru marked by phonological and lexical distinctions. Some isoglosses between Western Kru and Eastern Kru:

{| class="wikitable"
! Gloss !! Proto-Western Kru !! Proto-Eastern Kru
|-
| tree || {{Lang|kro|*tu}} || {{Lang|kro|*su}}
|-
| dog || {{Lang|kro|*gbe}} || {{Lang|kro|*gwɪ}}
|-
| fire || {{Lang|kro|*nɛ}} || {{Lang|kro|*kosu}}
|-
| tooth || {{Lang|kro|*ɲnɪ}} || {{Lang|kro|*gle}}
|}