Word evolution game

[Man in Space]

Palatalization before front vowels

['ɛːk 'aː ᵐba'ⁿdzæːjɛ]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Loss of stress as a word-level feature; stress falls on the final heavy syllable of an utterance.

[ɛːk͜ aː.ᵐba'ⁿdzæː.jɛ]

[Travis B.]

[aː æː ɛː eː] > [æː ɛː eː iː]

[eːk͜ æː.ᵐba'ⁿdzɛː.jɛ]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Breaking Chain Shift: [eː ɛː æː jɛ] > [ji jo ja i]

[jik͜ ja.ᵐba'ⁿdzjoi]

[Travis B.]

[joi] > [je]

[jik͜ ja.ᵐba'ⁿdzje]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Consonants palatalise adjacent to [j]

[jic ja.ᵐba'^ɲɟʑje]

[Travis B.]

[ji ja je] > [i æ e]

[ic æ.ᵐba'^ɲɟʑe]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Prenasalised stops become plain nasals

[ic æ.maɲ'ʑe]

[foxcatdog]

Prenasalised stops become plain nasals

[ic æ.maɲ'ʑe]

Lenition before front vowels

[icç æ.maɲ'je]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Lengthening of stressed syllables

[icç æ.maɲ'jeː]

[vegfarandi]

Reduction of unstressed vowels at the beginning of an anapest.

[ˌicç ə.maɲ'jeː]

(By the way, the grammatical implications of the changes that have ravaged this phrase are very interesting to me! Unstressed clitic auxiliaries, whaa!?)

[Otto Kretschmer]

[patri'mo:nium]

[vegfarandi]

Dental + r clusters become retroflex.

[paʈi'moːnium]

[Travis B.]

Vulgar Latin vowel shift

[paʈe'monio]

[Zju]

All around lenition

[paɖe'ʋoɾio]

[Travis B.]

[ɾi] > [ʑ]

[paɖe'ʋoʑo]

[Man in Space]

Loss of intertonic syllables

[paɖ'ʋoʑo]

[foxcatdog]

Loss of intertonic syllables

[paɖ'ʋoʑo]

[baɖ'ʋoʑo]

[vegfarandi]

Metathesis

[baʋ'ɖoʑo]

[Travis B.]

[ʋ] > [w]

[baw'ɖoʑo]