Word evolution game

[Travis B.]

Lowering of nasalized vowels.

[bja˧.βẽã˦]

baváin
"dog"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[bj] > [dʒ]

[dʒa˧.βẽã˦]

baváin
"dog"

[foxcatdog]

Voicing dissimilation papuan style (it is sort of meant to be a papuan language)

[sa˧.βẽã˦]

savján
"female dog"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

That's an awfully big change to happen all at once.

Anyway, tone loss.

[sa.βẽã]

savján
"female dog"

[foxcatdog]

Diphthong smoothing
[sa.βɛ̃ɛ̃]

savján
"female dog"

[Travis B.]

Prevocalic fricative voicing.
[za.βɛ̃ɛ̃]

savján
"female Chihuahua"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Vowel Coalescence

[za.βɛ̃ː]

savján
"female Chihuahua"

[foxcatdog]

Nasalisation

[za.mɛ̃ː]

savján
"female demon"

[Man in Space]

Deletion of unstressed pretonic short vowels in syllables preceding a long vowel:

[zmɛ̃ː]

savján
"female demon"

(Also that semantic drift is slaying me.)

[foxcatdog]

Debuccalisation
[ɦmɛ̃ː]

savján
"female demon"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Lowering of nasal vowels
[ɦmæ̃ː]

savján
"banshee, a kind of evil spirit said to wail or scream"

[Travis B.]

I presume the semantic shift from chihuahuas to demons is based on small yappy dogs being demonic?

[Travis B.]

Breaking of nasal vowels with ejection of nasality.
[ɦmæw̃]

savján
"banshee, a kind of evil spirit said to wail or scream"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Loss of nasality on resonants, also slight orthographic revisions are introduced

[ɦmæw]
savján
"banshee, a kind of evil spirit said to wail or scream; (by extension) a troublesome, noisy child (usually female)"

[Man in Space]

Loss of glottal fricatives in clusters

[mæw]
savján
"banshee, a kind of evil spirit said to wail or scream; (by extension) a troublesome, noisy child (usually female)"

[foxcatdog]

Ejection of palatal features onto following consonants.

[mʲaw]
myau
"banshee, a kind of evil spirit said to wail or scream; (by extension) a troublesome, noisy child (usually female)"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Backing and rounding before [w]

[mʲɔw]
myau
"banshee, a kind of evil spirit said to wail or scream; (by extension) a troublesome, noisy child (usually female)"

[foxcatdog]

I guess with how this ended up it was pretty expected of me but the steps were somewhat novel. [ba˧.bẽ:˦]

Anyways new word.

['na.jan.si:]
najansii
"sun dragon goddess"

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[iː] > [ai]

['na.jan.sai]
najansii
"sun dragon goddess"

[Travis B.]

[ns] > [n.ts]

['na.jan.tsai]
najansii
"sun dragon demonness"