Word evolution game

[Travis B.]

Elision of coda /h/, with breathy-voicing of preceding vowels

/ʃe̤ː/
śeh
"feather"

[Otto Kretschmer]

New word

/ˌju ˈɡaɪz/
You guys

[Travis B.]

Final devoicing (with preservation of allophonic vowel length)

[juːˈɡaːɪ̯s]
You guys

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[uː] > [yw] after [j ʃ ʒ tʃ dʒ]

[jywˈɡaːɪ̯s]
You guys

[Travis B.]

Lowering of [aːɪ̯] to [aːe̯].

[jywˈɡaːe̯s]
You guys

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[aː] > [æː]

[jywˈɡæːe̯s]
You guys

[Travis B.]

[yw] > [yː]

[jyːˈɡæːe̯s]
You guys

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[æːe̯] > [ɛːː]

[jyːˈɡɛːːs]
You guys

[Travis B.]

[æːe̯] > [ɛːː]

That was meant to signify a long diphthong not an overlong one, just for the record.

Anyways, intervocalic voiced stops > voiced fricatives.

[jyːˈɣɛːːs]
You guys

[Man in Space]

Sesquisyllabification

[jəɣɛːːs]
y’geás
‘2PL’

[foxcatdog]

Lateralisation

[jəɣɛːːɬ]
jegaes
‘2PL’

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[æːe̯] > [ɛːː]

That was meant to signify a long diphthong not an overlong one, just for the record.

Smoothing often comes with compensatory lengthening, so why not compensatory overlengthening?

Anyway, [j] > [ʒ]

[ʒəɣɛːːɬ]
yegáes
‘2PL’

[Man in Space]

Transfer of vowel overlength to singleton consonants

[ʒəɣːɛːɬ]
yegáes
‘2PL’

[Travis B.]

Breaking of open-mid long vowels. (In this case the vowel is meant to be long.)

[ʒəɣːeə̯ɬ]
yegáes
‘2PL’

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ɣ] > [j] before front vowels

[ʒəjːeə̯ɬ]
yegáes
‘2PL’

[Travis B.]

Devoicing of sibilants.

[ʃəjːeə̯ɬ]
yegáes
‘2PL’

[Man in Space]

Fortition of geminate glides

[ʃəɟʝeə̯ɬ]
yegáes
‘2PL’

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Fortition spreads to sibilant fricatives (also more clearly noted syllabification):

[t͡ʃəɟ.ɟ͡ʝeə̯t͡ɬ]
yegáes (traditional spelling)
tyegyáels (proposed spelling reform, briefly adopted, that fizzles out after a while)
‘2PL’

[Travis B.]

[t͡ɬ] > [c͡ç]

[t͡ʃəɟ.ɟ͡ʝeə̯c͡ç]
yegáes
‘2PL’

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[t͡ʃ] merges with [c͡ç]

[c͡çəɟ.ɟ͡ʝeə̯c͡ç]
yegáes, sometimes also yegáey
‘2PL’