Proto-Kartu (?) to Nhanta
(Blevins seems a little ambivalent as to whether Nhanta is a Kartu language proper; she suggests a possible distant connection to Thura-Yura)
Sources
Blevins, Juliette (1999), "Nhanta and Its Position within Pama-Nyungan". Oceanic Linguistics 38:2(297 – 320) (I'd have her paper "Nhanta historical phonology" proper if Taylor & Francis' checkout system worked)
Transcribed by: Man in Space
Reviewed by: (none)
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*p > Ø / #_
*"w{a,u}R(X) > "w{a,u}Rʔ ("tonic sequences of [-consonant, +back] segments")
*tʲ > j / #_in
*tʲ > j / #_urC
*k > w / #_u[+cons -hi] (I'm guessing this means everything from velars back is excluded)
[+cons +son -nas] > [-son] / V_[- son] (i.e., sonorant > stop)
*C₁C₂ > C₂C₂ / for non-sonorant C
*w > ʔ / "u_
*j > ʔ / "i_ (I'm conjecturing that this affects the tonic as per the previous change; Blevins has i without an accent here, but that seems to be an error)
*t > w / #_ (in a surprising number of cases; Blevins doesn't say much about it)
