Word evolution game

[Travis B.]

Final [s] elision.

[deu]
Deus
“God”

[foxcatdog]

Modern Frenchification

[dø]
Deus
“God”

[Man in Space]

Vive la France

[djø]
Dieu
“God”

[Otto Kretschmer]

New word
[ɰᵝa̠ta̠ɕi]
Watashi
"I"

[foxcatdog]

britification
[ɰᵝa̠ʔa̠ɕi]
Watashi
"I"

[Otto Kretschmer]

[ɰ]>[w]
[wᵝa̠ʔa̠ɕi]
Watashi
"I"

[Man in Space]

Rosenfelder’s law, plus some orthographic reform

[ɰ]>[w]
[wa̠ʔɕi]
ouà’çi
‘1SG’

[Travis B.]

[ʔɕ] > [tɕ]

[wa̠tɕi]
ouà’çi
‘1SG’

[Man in Space]

Preceding a coronal stop, /a̠/ > [e], deleting the stop

[weɕi]
ouà’çi
‘1SG’

[Travis B.]

[w] > [ɥ] before a front vowel.

[ɥeɕi]
ouà’çi
‘1SG’

[Man in Space]

Coronals/palatals delete in intervocalic position before /i/

[ɥej]
ouà’çi
‘1SG’

[Otto Kretschmer]

Monophtongization
[ɥe:]
ouà’çi
‘1SG’

[Zju]

(Shoot…I think we posted at the exact same time because I got no notification of an edit conflict)

oh dnoes!

anyway, let me cheat a little and insert two changes in a row: expressive reduplication and dissimilative fortition

[ɟʷeːbʲeː]
ǯuà’çibà’çi
‘1SG.EMPH’

[Travis B.]

Devoicing of initial plosives.

[cʷeːbʲeː]
ǯuà’çibà’çi
‘1SG.EMPH’

[foxcatdog]

Palatisation and labialisation lost

[ceːbeː]
ǯuà’çibà’çi
‘1SG.EMPH’

[Travis B.]

[c] > [tɕ]

[tɕeːbeː]
ǯuà’çibà’çi
‘1SG.EMPH’

[foxcatdog]

Marshal Islandification
[tɕ] > {r]

[rːbeː]
ǯuà’çibà’çi
‘1SG.EMPH’

[foxcatdog]

[ɬa'pa]
łapá
‘dog’

[Travis B.]

[rːb] > [ʙː]

[ʙːeː]
ǯuà’çibà’çi
‘1SG.EMPH’

[Travis B.]

Intervocalic [p] > [ɸ]


[ɬa'ɸa]
łapá
‘dog’