Word evolution game

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Bilabial taps and trills become labialised rhotics

New word:
['ᵐbrʷuzi 't͡ɕʼeɹʷe]
Mbrrwuzi Ch'erwe
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Rounin Ryuuji wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:17 pm Bilabial taps and trills become labialised rhotics

New word:
['ᵐbrʷuzi 't͡ɕʼeɹʷe]
Mbrrwuzi Ch'erwe
Thank you. Bilabial trills scare me.
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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Travis B. wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:21 pm
Rounin Ryuuji wrote: Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:17 pm Bilabial taps and trills become labialised rhotics

New word:
['ᵐbrʷuzi 't͡ɕʼeɹʷe]
Mbrrwuzi Ch'erwe
Thank you. Bilabial trills scare me.
I think both of those sounds are also crosslinguistically uncommon and likely to be unstable. My brain usually just jumps to "likely sound change" on these.
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Rhotics cause preceding stops/affricates to become aspirated, then disappear (or lenite if intervocalic)

['ᵐbʱuzi 't͡ɕʼehʷe]
Mbrrwuzi Ch'erwe
'Bruzi language'
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Loss of prenasalisation:

['bʱuzi 't͡ɕʼehʷe]
Bhuzi Ch'ehwe
'Bhuzi language'
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*bʱ > *β

['βuzi 't͡ɕʼehʷe]
Bhuzi Ch'ehwe
'Bhuzi language'
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Ejectives become aspirates

['βuzi 't͡ɕʰehʷe]
Bhuzi Ch'ehwe
'Bhuzi language'
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Labialized consonants turn into /w/ with compensatory lengthening:

['βuzi 't͡ɕʰeːwe]
Bhuzi Ch'ehwe
'Bhuzi language'
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[we] > [jo]

['βu.zi 't͡ɕʰeː.jo]
Bhuzi Chhēyo
'Bhuzi language'
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Long vowels raise:

['βu.zi 't͡ɕʰiː.jo]
Bhuzi Chhēyo
'Bhuzi language'
/j/ <j>

Ɂaləɂahina asəkipaɂə ileku omkiroro salka.
Loɂ ɂerleku asəɂulŋusikraɂə seləɂahina əɂətlahɂun əiŋɂiɂŋa.
Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ. Hərlaɂ.
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i-mutation:

['βy.zi 't͡ɕʰiː.jo]
Bhüzi Chhēyo
'Bhüzi language'
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Final vowels lost

['βy.z 't͡ɕʰiː.j]
Bhüzi Chhēyo
'Bhüzi language'
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Terminal syllabic consonants desyllabify with compensatory lengthening

['βyːz 't͡ɕʰiːːj]
Bhüze Chhîye
'Bhüze language'
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[yː] > [iu]

['βiuz 't͡ɕʰiːːj]
Bhüze Chhîye
'Bhüze language'
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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*i:: > *e:y

['βiuz 't͡ɕʰe:yj]
Bhüze Chhîye
'Bhüze language'
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[j] > [ʑ]

['βiuz 't͡ɕʰe:yʑ]
Bhiuz Chhêuzh

'Bhiuz language'
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Final devoicing.

['βius 't͡ɕʰe:yɕ]
Bhiuz Chhêuzh

'Bhiuz language'
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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['t͡ɕʰ] > [c͡ç]

['βius 'c͡çe:yɕ]
Bhius khyêush

'Bhius language'
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[c͡ç] > [ç].

['βius 'çe:yɕ]
Bhius khyêush

'Bhius language'
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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Diphthong resolution (monophthongisation of short diphthongs, shortening of long diphthongs).

['βɨs çeyɕ]
Bhys hyeüsh

'Bhys language'
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