Word evolution game

[Man in Space]

[ˈseɲɕip]
tïsẽeṭsp
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

i-epenthesis

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[keːɕiɲˈtaːʁo]
koośöntákkuu
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Shortening of unstressed long vowels

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[ˈseɲɕi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

deletion of word-final voiceless plosives

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[keːsinˈtaːʁo]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

depalatalization

[Travis B.]

[ˈseɲiɕi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Vowel epenthesis to break up clusters.

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[keːsinˈtɑːʁo]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Backing of vowels before uvular consonants.

[Lērisama]

[ˈseŋiɕi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Post vocalic nasal neutralisation

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[keːsːˈtɑːʁ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Syncope of vowels in the second syllable of a trochaic foot, with simplification of resulting clusters

[Travis B.]

[ˈseŋiɕih]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Insertion of [h] after final high vowels.

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[kesːˈtɑːʁ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Shortening of vowels before geminates.

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[ˈseŋgiɕih]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

nasal consonants > prenasalized plosives

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[kesːˈtɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

final devoicing

[Travis B.]

[ˈsẽːgiɕih]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Deprenasalization of postvocalic prenasalized consonants with nasalization and compensatory lengthening of preceding vowels.

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[kesːəˈtɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Schwa-epenthesis

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[ˈsẽːgiɕhi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

metathesis of [Vh]

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[kxesːəˈtɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

affrication of word-initial plosives

[Travis B.]

[ˈsẽːgiɕi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Loss of [h] after consonants.

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[kʰesːəˈtɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Shifting of affrication to aspiration.

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[ˈsẽːɣiɕi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

lenition of intervocalic plosives

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[kʰesːəˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

[t] > [ʈ] before open back vowels

[Travis B.]

[ˈsẽːʝiɕi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Palatalization of dorsal consonants before front vowels and [j].

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[kʰetsəˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

[sː] > [ts]

[Lērisama]

[ˈtẽːʒisi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Fricative chain shift.

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[kketsəˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Aspiration to gemination

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[ˈtẽdʒisi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

long vowels followed by fricatives become short vowels followed by affricates

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[xːetsəˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

lenition of word-initial plosives

[Travis B.]

[ˈdẽdʒisi]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Voicing of consonants before nasal vowels.

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[kxetsəˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Affrication of geminate fricatives.

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[ˈdẽdʒis]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

deletion of unstressed word-final vowels

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[kxetsˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

deletion of schwas

[Man in Space]

[ˈnẽdʒis]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

*Z > N / # _ [ +syll +nas ]

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[kxe̥tsˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Devoicing of unstressed vowels when between two voiceless consonants

[Travis B.]

[ˈnẽʒis]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Deaffrication

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[kxtsˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Elision of voiceless vowels

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[ˈnẽʒĩs]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Nasal harmony

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[xtˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Affricates simplify to fricatives word-initially and to plosives word-internally

[Man in Space]

[ˈnẽjĩs]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Lenition

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[iʈˈʈɑːχ]
keesintaago
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Vocalization of initial dorsal fricatives before a consonant, with simplification

[Lērisama]

[ˈnĩːs]
señśi
‘grounds, plot of land; habitat, native environs; country’

Contraction of vowel sequences, for which [ji wu] count as hiatus

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[iˈʈɑːχ]
iṭṭaḫ
‘swordfight, duel, trial by sword; rivalry, debate’

Simplification of geminates