Word evolution game

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[ɬ] > [θ]

[θa'ɸa]
łapá
‘dog’
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stressed vowel shift

[θa'ɸɛ]
łapá
‘dog’
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[ɸ]>[f]
[θa'fɛ]
łapá
‘dog’
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Vowel markedness transferred onto preceding consonants, with concomitant loss or weakening

[θˤɐfʲə]
łapá
‘dog; roll of 2 on 2d6’
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[θˤ] > [χ]

[χɐfʲə]
łapá
‘dog; roll of 2 on 2d6’
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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Vowel contraction for intervocalic fricatives

[χɥɛ]
łapá
‘dog; roll of 2 on 2d6’
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Spanishification and spelling reform

[χɥje]
łyie
‘dog; roll of 2 on 2d6’
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Trill development

[ʜɥje]
łyie
‘dog; roll of 2 on 2d6; bad luck’
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palatisation

[ʜᶣje]
łyie
"bad luck"
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New word since i think we have exhausted all possibilities with the other one so soon.
['pé.te.min]
pétemin
"person"
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Intervocalic unstressed post-tonic coronal plosive elision with vowel coalescence.

['péː.min]
pétemin
"person"
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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Initial consonant loss:

['éː.min]
pétemin
"person"
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Unstressed vowels lost between singleton consonants with resultant assimilation

['éːmm]
pétemin
"person"
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Vowel breaking

['jómm]
pétemin
"person"
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[mm]>[mn]
['jómn]
Jomn
"person"
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Nasal dissimilation

['jóml]
Joml
"person"
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Insertion of an interconsonantal schwa
['jóməl]
Joml
"person
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P > Ø / {u,o,w}_

['jóəl]
Joml
‘person; reflexive anaphor’
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Vowel coalescence.

['jóːl]
Joml
‘person; reflexive anaphor’
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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Final [l]>[w]
['jóːw]
Joml
‘person; reflexive anaphor’
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