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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]