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Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:17 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Bilabial taps and trills become labialised rhotics
New word:
['ᵐbrʷuzi 't͡ɕʼeɹʷe]
Mbrrwuzi Ch'erwe
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:21 pm
by Travis B.
Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:17 pm
Bilabial taps and trills become labialised rhotics
New word:
['ᵐbrʷuzi 't͡ɕʼeɹʷe]
Mbrrwuzi Ch'erwe
Thank you. Bilabial trills scare me.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:24 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Travis B. wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:21 pm
Rounin Ryuuji wrote: ↑Tue Dec 06, 2022 12:17 pm
Bilabial taps and trills become labialised rhotics
New word:
['ᵐbrʷuzi 't͡ɕʼeɹʷe]
Mbrrwuzi Ch'erwe
Thank you. Bilabial trills scare me.
I think both of those sounds are also crosslinguistically uncommon and likely to be unstable. My brain usually just jumps to "likely sound change" on these.
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 4:24 pm
by Man in Space
Rhotics cause preceding stops/affricates to become aspirated, then disappear (or lenite if intervocalic)
['ᵐbʱuzi 't͡ɕʼehʷe]
Mbrrwuzi Ch'erwe
'Bruzi language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 4:49 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Loss of prenasalisation:
['bʱuzi 't͡ɕʼehʷe]
Bhuzi Ch'ehwe
'Bhuzi language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:19 pm
by foxcatdog
*bʱ > *β
['βuzi 't͡ɕʼehʷe]
Bhuzi Ch'ehwe
'Bhuzi language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Tue Dec 06, 2022 10:30 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Ejectives become aspirates
['βuzi 't͡ɕʰehʷe]
Bhuzi Ch'ehwe
'Bhuzi language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 5:16 am
by Raholeun
Labialized consonants turn into /w/ with compensatory lengthening:
['βuzi 't͡ɕʰeːwe]
Bhuzi Ch'ehwe
'Bhuzi language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 9:18 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
[we] > [jo]
['βu.zi 't͡ɕʰeː.jo]
Bhuzi Chhēyo
'Bhuzi language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:13 pm
by Zju
Long vowels raise:
['βu.zi 't͡ɕʰiː.jo]
Bhuzi Chhēyo
'Bhuzi language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 2:47 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
i-mutation:
['βy.zi 't͡ɕʰiː.jo]
Bhüzi Chhēyo
'Bhüzi language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 10:10 pm
by foxcatdog
Final vowels lost
['βy.z 't͡ɕʰiː.j]
Bhüzi Chhēyo
'Bhüzi language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 6:43 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
Terminal syllabic consonants desyllabify with compensatory lengthening
['βyːz 't͡ɕʰiːːj]
Bhüze Chhîye
'Bhüze language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 12:42 pm
by Travis B.
[yː] > [iu]
['βiuz 't͡ɕʰiːːj]
Bhüze Chhîye
'Bhüze language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 7:18 pm
by foxcatdog
*i:: > *e:y
['βiuz 't͡ɕʰe:yj]
Bhüze Chhîye
'Bhüze language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 7:41 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
[j] > [ʑ]
['βiuz 't͡ɕʰe:yʑ]
Bhiuz Chhêuzh
'Bhiuz language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 7:58 pm
by Travis B.
Final devoicing.
['βius 't͡ɕʰe:yɕ]
Bhiuz Chhêuzh
'Bhiuz language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 7:59 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
['t͡ɕʰ] > [c͡ç]
['βius 'c͡çe:yɕ]
Bhius khyêush
'Bhius language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:02 pm
by Travis B.
[c͡ç] > [ç].
['βius 'çe:yɕ]
Bhius khyêush
'Bhius language'
Re: Word evolution game
Posted: Thu Dec 08, 2022 8:39 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Diphthong resolution (monophthongisation of short diphthongs, shortening of long diphthongs).
['βɨs çeyɕ]
Bhys hyeüsh
'Bhys language'