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Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 11:52 am
by Travis B.
Adding a schwa after final voiced consonants.
[kɑ'biðə]
kabídhe
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 1:16 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Vowels lengthen in stressed, open syllables.
[kɑ'biː.ðə]
kabídhe
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 4:56 pm
by foxcatdog
Long high vowels break
[kɑ'bəi.ðə]
kabeídhe
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 6:46 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Obligatory syllable closure develops:
[kɑɾ'bəi.ðəɾ]
karbeídher
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 9:10 pm
by foxcatdog
*ə > *o
[kɑɾ'boi.ðoɾ]
karboídhor
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sat Oct 01, 2022 11:56 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
[kɑɾ'byː.ðoɾ]
karboídhor
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 1:05 am
by foxcatdog
Consonants unround before rounded vowels.
[kɑɾ'dyː.ðoɾ]
kardoídhor
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 4:15 am
by sasasha
Height vowel harmony based on stressed syllable
[kɵɾ'dyː.ðoɾ]
kaordoídhor
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 11:25 am
by Travis B.
foxcatdog wrote: ↑Sun Oct 02, 2022 1:05 am
Consonants unround before rounded vowels.
[kɑɾ'dyː.ðoɾ]
kardoídhor
[b] is not a rounded [d]!
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 11:33 am
by Travis B.
Non-rhoticism.
[kɵ'dyː.ðo]
kaodoídho
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 1:26 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Loss of pretonic unstressed vowels
['kdyː.ðo]
kdoídho
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 1:41 pm
by sasasha
[kd] > [ɟ͡d]
[ˈɟ͡dyː.ðo]
gdoídho
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 2:26 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
[ɟ͡d] > [ɟː]
[ˈɟːyː.ðo]
gdoídho
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 6:03 pm
by foxcatdog
*ð > *n
[ˈɟːyː.no]
gdoíno
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 7:15 pm
by Travis B.
Unstressed intervocalic [n] > 0
[ˈɟːyː.o]
gdoío
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 7:23 pm
by foxcatdog
Vowel hiatus resolved with epenthetic consonants
[ˈɟːyː.ɥo]
gdoíyo
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2022 8:12 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
[ɟː] > [ɟʑ], coupled with a fad for historic spelling
[ˈʑːyː.ɥo]
gdoídhor
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 11:54 am
by sasasha
(Going to take the last one as [ˈɟʑyː.ɥo] as per the text.)
[ɟʑ] > [ʎ̝]
[ʎ̝yː.ɥo]
gdloídhor
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 12:06 pm
by Travis B.
Post-tonic short vowel reduction.
[ˈʎ̝yː.ɥə]
gdloídhor
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Mon Oct 03, 2022 1:05 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
[yː] > [ɥiː], trend towards regularisation of vowel spelling and simplification of orthographic consonant clusters, though the reform is still fairly conservative.
[ˈʎ̝ɥiː.ɥə]
lhuídhe