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Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 5:58 am
by Jonlang
Re-analysis of syllable boundaries as stress moves to the final syllable; [ɲ] > [nr]

[fjeð.ˈjeinr]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 8:12 am
by vegfarandi
Metathesis.

[fjeð.ˈjeirn]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 8:29 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
[fje] > [çi]

[çið.ˈjeirn]

Hidhjeirn?

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 8:50 am
by vegfarandi
[ð] shifts to a Danish-style pronunciation.

[çiɹ̪ˠ.ˈjeirn]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 1:50 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
[ei] > [eː]

[çiɹ̪ˠ.ˈjeːrn]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 2:16 pm
by Travis B.
Some non-native speaker mistakens /rn/ in writing for /m/ and it catches on.

[çiɹ̪ˠ.ˈjeːm]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 2:22 pm
by 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]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 2:36 pm
by 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]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 3:03 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
[iw] > [yː]

[çyː.ˈweːm]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 4:46 pm
by vegfarandi
Labialization.

[çʷyː.ˈweːm]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Tue May 31, 2022 10:30 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Assimilation of [w] > [ɥ] where perceived as an excrescence of a front rounded vowel:

[çʷyː.ˈɥeːm]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 3:41 am
by Jonlang
Intervocalic and post-vocalic lenition

[çʷyː.ˈβeːβ̃]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:24 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
[çʷ] > [ɸᶣ]

[ɸᶣyː.ˈβeːβ̃]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:25 am
by vegfarandi
Rounded front vowels lose their rounding.

[ɸᶣiː.ˈβeːβ̃]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 9:26 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
Elision of intervocalic voiced fricatives:

[ɸᶣiː.ˈ(j)eːβ̃]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 10:26 am
by vegfarandi
Nasalization migration from fricatives to vowels.

[ɸᶣiː.ˈ(j)ẽːβ]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 11:01 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
Shortening of nonstressed vowels:

[ɸᶣi.ˈ(j)ẽːβ]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 2:27 pm
by vegfarandi
Nasalization spreads to preceding sonorants.

[ɸᶣi.ˈɲẽːβ]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Wed Jun 01, 2022 3:18 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
[çi.ˈɲẽːβ]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2022 1:27 pm
by vegfarandi
Devoicing of finals.

[çi.ˈɲẽːɸ]