Word evolution game

[Travis B.]

Adding a schwa after final voiced consonants.

[kɑ'biðə]
kabídhe

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Vowels lengthen in stressed, open syllables.

[kɑ'biː.ðə]
kabídhe

[foxcatdog]

Long high vowels break

[kɑ'bəi.ðə]
kabeídhe

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Obligatory syllable closure develops:

[kɑɾ'bəi.ðəɾ]
karbeídher

[foxcatdog]

*ə > *o

[kɑɾ'boi.ðoɾ]
karboídhor

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[kɑɾ'byː.ðoɾ]
karboídhor

[foxcatdog]

Consonants unround before rounded vowels.

[kɑɾ'dyː.ðoɾ]
kardoídhor

[sasasha]

Height vowel harmony based on stressed syllable

[kɵɾ'dyː.ðoɾ]
kaordoídhor

[Travis B.]

Consonants unround before rounded vowels.

[kɑɾ'dyː.ðoɾ]
kardoídhor

[b] is not a rounded [d]!

[Travis B.]

Non-rhoticism.

[kɵ'dyː.ðo]
kaodoídho

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Loss of pretonic unstressed vowels

['kdyː.ðo]
kdoídho

[sasasha]

[kd] > [ɟ͡d]

[ˈɟ͡dyː.ðo]
gdoídho

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ɟ͡d] > [ɟː]
[ˈɟːyː.ðo]
gdoídho

[foxcatdog]

*ð > *n
[ˈɟːyː.no]
gdoíno

[Travis B.]

Unstressed intervocalic [n] > 0
[ˈɟːyː.o]
gdoío

[foxcatdog]

Vowel hiatus resolved with epenthetic consonants
[ˈɟːyː.ɥo]
gdoíyo

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ɟː] > [ɟʑ], coupled with a fad for historic spelling

[ˈʑːyː.ɥo]
gdoídhor

[sasasha]

(Going to take the last one as [ˈɟʑyː.ɥo] as per the text.)

[ɟʑ] > [ʎ̝]

[ʎ̝yː.ɥo]
gdloídhor

[Travis B.]

Post-tonic short vowel reduction.

[ˈʎ̝yː.ɥə]
gdloídhor

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[yː] > [ɥiː], trend towards regularisation of vowel spelling and simplification of orthographic consonant clusters, though the reform is still fairly conservative.

[ˈʎ̝ɥiː.ɥə]
lhuídhe