Zompist Bboard Again

Seed 1901630755 gives us this lovely rule, slightly edited because as written it interferes with BBCode: Between a vowel and a vowel or an approximant, [d] become [t]; b become [ɸ]; [g] are deleted. I am aware that something similar is thought to have happened along the way to Kiput, but it's still ...

bbbosborne wrote: ↑Fri Jul 27, 2018 12:42 amalso, are there any instances of click phonemes merging/diverging?

Yes.

I found a book preview on Google Books that mentions some connections between /s/ and palatals in passing. Apparently some languages in South America even have [s] as an allophone of /j/, although the preview doesn't include the name of the reference for this. If you're of the persuasion that the P...