Word evolution game

[foxcatdog]

I'm starting to think we're just going in circles with this one.

I-mutation.

['jo.lə 'sɛi̯ lɛm'i.lə 'ɑ.ŋu 'ɛ.jə]

Loss of diacritics after spelling changes to accommodate i-mutation.

Yola sei lemila añu eya.

Schwas drop

['jo.l 'sɛi̯ lɛm'i.l 'ɑ.ŋu 'ɛ.j]

Rather than write this people decide to write the now unpronounced schwas at the end of every word

Yola seia lemila añua eya.

[Jonlang]

[ŋ] > [n]

['jo.l 'sɛi̯ lɛm.'il 'ɑ.nu 'ɛj]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Intrusive glides and schwas before terminal syllabic coda resonants; medial coda resonants before a null initial spread to the onset of the following syllable

['jo.wəl 'sɛi̯ lɛm.'mil 'ɑ.nu 'ɛj]

[Jonlang]

Final [j] > [ɪð]

['jo.wəl 'sɛi̯ lɛm.'mil 'ɑ.nu 'ɛɪð]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Final nonsyllabic [i] > [ɪç].

['jo.wəl 'sɛɪç lɛm.'mil 'ɑ.nu 'ɛɪð]
Hioel seih lemmil anu eidh.

[Jonlang]

Dissimilation of long nasals.

['jo.wəl 'sɛɪç lɛm.'bil 'ɑ.nu 'ɛɪð]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ɛɪ] > [ɘɪ]

['jo.wəl 'sɘɪç lɛm.'bil 'ɑ.nu 'ɘɪð]

[Travis B.]

Final sonorant consonants have [ə] inserted after them.

['jo.wə.lə 'sɘɪç lɛm.'bi.lə 'ɑ.nu 'ɘɪð]

[Travis B.]

Orthographic updates only; after a long period of illiteracy, a new orthography is created from scratch.

['jo.wə.lə 'sɘɪç lɛm.'bi.lə 'ɑ.nu 'ɘɪð]

Yowele seich lembile anu eidh.

[Rounin Ryuuji]

French-style loss of schwa before a following vowel, with liaison following

['jo.wə.lə 'sɘɪ.ç lɛm.'bi.l͜ 'ɑ.nu 'ɘɪð]
Yowele seich lembile anu eidh.

[Jonlang]

Loss of final vowels.

['jo.wə.l 'sɘɪ.ç lɛm.'bi.l͜ 'ɑ.n 'ɘɪð]

Final vowels remain written as a signal of liaison.
Yowel seich lembile an eidh.

[Rounin Ryuuji]

preconsonantal [l ç] > [w j]

['jo.wəw 'sɘɪj lɛm.'bi.l͜ 'ɑ.n 'ɘɪð]
Yowel seich lembile an eidh.

[Otto Kretschmer]

[kɔt]

A single word, means cat in Polish.

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ɔ] > [u̯ɛ]

[ku̯ɛt]

The orthography remains conservative:
kot

[vegfarandi]

Palatalization of dentals following front vowels.

[ku̯ɛtʲ]

kot

[Travis B.]

Breaking of diphthongs.

[kuˈwɛtʲ]

kot

[Jonlang]

Intervocalic [w] > [β]

[kuˈβɛtʲ]

kowet

[foxcatdog]

Intervocalic [w] > [β]

[kuˈβɛtʲ]

kowet

Palatised consonants acquire an epenthetic *i

[kuˈβɛtʲi]

People start imitating the french word "chat" (by now pronounced *ʃɛ) leading to an altered orthography
choweti

[Rounin Ryuuji]

I-mutation

[kʲyˈβetʲi]

Copying of French orthography continues:

Cuvéti.

[foxcatdog]

I-mutation

[kʲyˈβetʲi]

Copying of French orthography continues:

Cuvéti.

Inserion of epenthetic consonants in between labial vowels and labial consonants.

[kʲyjˈβetʲi]

Orthography remains unchanged

Cuvéti.