Word evolution game
Re: Word evolution game
Re-analysis of syllable boundaries as stress moves to the final syllable; [ɲ] > [nr]
[fjeð.ˈjeinr]
[fjeð.ˈjeinr]
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Re: Word evolution game
[fje] > [çi]
[çið.ˈjeirn]
Hidhjeirn?
[çið.ˈjeirn]
Hidhjeirn?
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Re: Word evolution game
[ð] shifts to a Danish-style pronunciation.
[çiɹ̪ˠ.ˈjeirn]
[çiɹ̪ˠ.ˈjeirn]
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Re: Word evolution game
[ei] > [eː]
[çiɹ̪ˠ.ˈjeːrn]
[çiɹ̪ˠ.ˈjeːrn]
Re: Word evolution game
Some non-native speaker mistakens /rn/ in writing for /m/ and it catches on.
[çiɹ̪ˠ.ˈjeːm]
[çiɹ̪ˠ.ˈjeːm]
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.
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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Re: Word evolution game
(Is this language even written with the Roman alphabet? I guess if it's an obscure enough word, even native speakers could make a mistake.)
Anyway...
[ɹ̪ˠ] > [w]
[çiw.ˈjeːm]
Anyway...
[ɹ̪ˠ] > [w]
[çiw.ˈjeːm]
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Re: Word evolution game
(It's 40 Eridani, a solar system near Sol; it's reasonable that humans thinking so hard about 40 Eridani that all this happens to it would still be writing in the Latin alphabet.)
Assimilation
[çiw.ˈweːm]
Assimilation
[çiw.ˈweːm]
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Re: Word evolution game
[iw] > [yː]
[çyː.ˈweːm]
[çyː.ˈweːm]
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Re: Word evolution game
Assimilation of [w] > [ɥ] where perceived as an excrescence of a front rounded vowel:
[çʷyː.ˈɥeːm]
[çʷyː.ˈɥeːm]
Re: Word evolution game
Intervocalic and post-vocalic lenition
[çʷyː.ˈβeːβ̃]
[çʷyː.ˈβeːβ̃]
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Re: Word evolution game
[çʷ] > [ɸᶣ]
[ɸᶣyː.ˈβeːβ̃]
[ɸᶣyː.ˈβeːβ̃]
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Re: Word evolution game
Rounded front vowels lose their rounding.
[ɸᶣiː.ˈβeːβ̃]
[ɸᶣiː.ˈβeːβ̃]
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Re: Word evolution game
Elision of intervocalic voiced fricatives:
[ɸᶣiː.ˈ(j)eːβ̃]
[ɸᶣiː.ˈ(j)eːβ̃]
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Re: Word evolution game
Nasalization migration from fricatives to vowels.
[ɸᶣiː.ˈ(j)ẽːβ]
[ɸᶣiː.ˈ(j)ẽːβ]
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Re: Word evolution game
Shortening of nonstressed vowels:
[ɸᶣi.ˈ(j)ẽːβ]
[ɸᶣi.ˈ(j)ẽːβ]
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Re: Word evolution game
Nasalization spreads to preceding sonorants.
[ɸᶣi.ˈɲẽːβ]
[ɸᶣi.ˈɲẽːβ]
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