Word evolution game

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Sol717
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Diphthong dissimilation:

ɲɟɥoe̯.ɸæ]
giünphä
‘wallet’

Aspiration of tenues:

[ɐ'tʰaːf]
atâfe
‘tin, small metal container’
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Rounin Ryuuji
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Re: Word evolution game

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[æ e] merge to [ɛ]

ɲɟɥoɛ̯.ɸɛ]
giünphä
‘wallet’

Coda fricatives colour preceding vowels:

[ɐ'tʰɔːf]
atâfe
‘tin, small metal container’
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[ˈʁœðˀˌkʁœðˀ]
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Coda [ð] > 0

[ˈʁœˀˌkʁœˀ]
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Re: Word evolution game

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Deglottalisation:

[ˈʁœˌkʁœ]
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[kʁ kʰʁ] > [qχ qʰχ]

[ˈʁœˌqχœ]
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Vowels lengthen in open stressed syllables:

[ˈʁœ:ˌqχœ]
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Secondary stress is lost:

[ˈʁœ:qχœ]
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Lateralisation

[ˈlœ:qχœ]
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Unrounding of front rounded vowels:

[ˈlɛ:qχɛ]
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Post-tonic medial qχ > χ:.

[ˈlɛ:χ:ɛ]
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Breaking of [ɛ:] > [jɘː] before geminates and coda consonants

[ˈljɘːχ:ɛ]
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[lj] > [ʎ]

[ˈʎɘːχ:ɛ]
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T'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa t'awraa.
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PIE consonant shift, but with fricatives:

[ˈʎɘːx:ɛ]
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Palatals front following vowels.

[ˈʎeːx:ɛ]
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Re: Word evolution game

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[x] > [ç] before or after front vowels.

[ˈʎeː.ç:ɛ]
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Prestoppage of initial approximants

ɟʎeː.ç:ɛ]
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Geminate fricatives become affricates

ɟʎeː.c͡çɛ]
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[ɟʎ] > [ʝ]

[ˈʝeː.c͡çɛ]
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Re: Word evolution game

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Vowel length shifts to offglide closure:

[ˈʝej.c͡çɛ]
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