Word evolution game

[Jonlang]

Re-analysis of syllable boundaries as stress moves to the final syllable; [ɲ] > [nr]

[fjeð.ˈjeinr]

[vegfarandi]

Metathesis.

[fjeð.ˈjeirn]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[fje] > [çi]

[çið.ˈjeirn]

Hidhjeirn?

[vegfarandi]

[ð] shifts to a Danish-style pronunciation.

[çiɹ̪ˠ.ˈjeirn]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ei] > [eː]

[çiɹ̪ˠ.ˈjeːrn]

[Travis B.]

Some non-native speaker mistakens /rn/ in writing for /m/ and it catches on.

[çiɹ̪ˠ.ˈjeːm]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

(Is this language even written with the Roman alphabet? I guess if it's an obscure enough word, even native speakers could make a mistake.)

Anyway...

[ɹ̪ˠ] > [w]

[çiw.ˈjeːm]

[vegfarandi]

(It's 40 Eridani, a solar system near Sol; it's reasonable that humans thinking so hard about 40 Eridani that all this happens to it would still be writing in the Latin alphabet.)

Assimilation

[çiw.ˈweːm]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[iw] > [yː]

[çyː.ˈweːm]

[vegfarandi]

Labialization.

[çʷyː.ˈweːm]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Assimilation of [w] > [ɥ] where perceived as an excrescence of a front rounded vowel:

[çʷyː.ˈɥeːm]

[Jonlang]

Intervocalic and post-vocalic lenition

[çʷyː.ˈβeːβ̃]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[çʷ] > [ɸᶣ]

[ɸᶣyː.ˈβeːβ̃]

[vegfarandi]

Rounded front vowels lose their rounding.

[ɸᶣiː.ˈβeːβ̃]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Elision of intervocalic voiced fricatives:

[ɸᶣiː.ˈ(j)eːβ̃]

[vegfarandi]

Nasalization migration from fricatives to vowels.

[ɸᶣiː.ˈ(j)ẽːβ]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Shortening of nonstressed vowels:

[ɸᶣi.ˈ(j)ẽːβ]

[vegfarandi]

Nasalization spreads to preceding sonorants.

[ɸᶣi.ˈɲẽːβ]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[çi.ˈɲẽːβ]

[vegfarandi]

Devoicing of finals.

[çi.ˈɲẽːɸ]