Word evolution game

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Loss of intertonic unstressed vowels:

[ˌsɒɸˈsʁɤɰβ]
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Rounin Ryuuji wrote: Sun May 15, 2022 10:29 pm Loss of intertonic unstressed vowels:

[ˌsɒɸˈsʁɤɰβ]
Trilling of fricatives:

[ˌsɒʙ̥ˈsʀɤɰʙ]
tɑ tɑ tɑ tɑ θiθɾ eɾloθ tɑ moew θerts olɑrk siθe
of of of of death abyss of moew kingdom sand witch-PLURAL
The witches of the desert of the kingdom of Moew of the Abyss of Death

tɑ toɾose koɾot tsɑx
of apple-PLURAL magic cold
cold magic of apples
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Opening of trills and merger with adjacent approximants.

[ˌsɒʋtˈsʀɤw]
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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Diphthongs smooth, with residual pitch accent influenced by their original qualities:

[sòːt.sʀôː]
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Glottalization of t.

[sòːʔ.sʀôː]
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Loss of glottal stops, with shortening of preceding vowels.

[sò.sʀôː]
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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[sʀ] > [ʂ]

[sò.ʂôː]
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Replacement of falling tone with vocal fry.

[so̰.ʂóo̰]
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Intervocalic voicing of fricatives.

[so̰.ʐóo̰]
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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Rhotacism, round two, retroflex boogaloo:

[so̰.ɽóo̰]
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Rounin Ryuuji wrote: Thu May 19, 2022 8:54 pm Rhotacism, round two, retroflex boogaloo:

[so̰.ɽóo̰]
That's quite beautiful actually.
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Okay, new word:

[ˌs̩.ˈkʰɛnt.uˑ]
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What does it mean?

Also epinthesis of [ɐ] before syllabic voiceless consonants.

[ˌɐs̩.ˈkʰɛnt.uˑ]
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Desyllabification of syllabic fricatives.

[ˌɐs.ˈkʰɛnt.uˑ]
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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Shift of terminal consonants to the onset of the next syllable within the same word if there isn't an onset already:

[ˌɐs.ˈkʰɛn.tuˑ]
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Elision of coda nasals with nasalization of the preceding vowels.

[ˌɐs.ˈkʰɛ̃.tuˑ]
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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Palatalisation before front vowels:

[ˌɐs.ˈcʰɛ̃.tuˑ]
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Palatalization of coronals before palatals.

[ˌɐɕ.ˈcʰɛ̃.tuˑ]
Yaaludinuya siima d'at yiseka wohadetafa gaare.
Ennadinut'a gaare d'ate eetatadi siiman.
T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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Rounin Ryuuji wrote: Sat May 21, 2022 8:32 am What does it mean?
I was playing around with derivations in my conlangs and using syllabic /s/ as a method. I came up with that, but without any meaning.

Raising and rounding of vowels preceding final /u/:

[ˌɐɕ.ˈcʰɵ̃.tuˑ]
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Coda [ɕ] > [j]

[ˌɐj.ˈcʰɵ̃.tuˑ]
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