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Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:00 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
[ʃ] > [ɕ] in contact with palatals or front vowels, > [ʂ] elsewhere

[ʁjəɕ.'cɕe:.ɕəʂ]
Ριοσκήσιος

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:23 am
by Travis B.
[ɕ.cɕ] > [ɕ.ɕ]

[ʁjəɕ.'ɕe:.ɕəʂ]
Ριοσκήσιος

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 11:46 am
by Rounin Ryuuji
Loss of posttonic unstressed syllables.

[ʁjəɕ.'ɕe:ɕ]
Ριοσκής

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 12:13 pm
by Travis B.
Coda [ɕ] > [j]

[ʁjəj.'ɕe:j]
Ριοσκής

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:05 pm
by Otto Kretschmer
[sɔː.krá.tɛːs]

Next Greek guy.

A switch from pitch accent to a stress accent with stress on the initial syllable. This is going to cause weakening of unstressed syllables.

['sɔːkratɛːs]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:21 pm
by vegfarandi
ɛː lowers to æː

['sɔːkratæːs]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:39 pm
by Travis B.
Coda [s] > [h]

['sɔːkratæːh]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:45 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
[ɔː æː] > [aː]

['saːkrataːh]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:51 pm
by vegfarandi
Trills become flaps.

['saːkɾataːh]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:53 pm
by WarpedWartWars
vegfarandi wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 1:51 pm Trills become flaps.

['saːkɾataːh]
Final [h] disappears:

['saːkɾataː]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:12 pm
by Travis B.
Shortening of unstressed long vowels, and reduction of unstressed short vowels.

['saːkɾəta]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:20 pm
by WarpedWartWars
Travis B. wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:12 pm Shortening of unstressed long vowels, and reduction of unstressed short vowels.

['saːkɾəta]
Intervocalic voicing:

['saːkɾəda]

Edit: messed up, it's fixed now.

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:25 pm
by Otto Kretschmer
Further reduction of unstressed vowels

['saːkɾədɘ]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:38 pm
by WarpedWartWars
Otto Kretschmer wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 2:25 pm Further reduction of unstressed vowels

['saːkɾədɘ]
Even further reduction of unstressed vowels:

['saːkɾədə]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 3:58 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Metathesis:

['saː.kəɾ.də]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:25 pm
by Travis B.
Non-rhoticism!

['saː.kə.də]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:53 pm
by Man in Space
Loss of posttonic unstressed vowels with voicing assimilation of resultant clusters

['saːg.də]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:54 pm
by Travis B.
Frication of coda voiced plosives.

['saːɣ.də]

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:56 pm
by Rounin Ryuuji
Voicing of initial fricatives:

['zaːɣ.də]

With a still very conservative orthography:

Σογαρδας

Re: Word evolution game

Posted: Mon Jun 27, 2022 7:31 pm
by foxcatdog
Rounin Ryuuji wrote: Mon Jun 27, 2022 4:56 pm Voicing of initial fricatives:

['zaːɣ.də]

With a still very conservative orthography:

Σογαρδας
Long a raises to o

['zoːɣ.də]

Also new word

['bæt.ti:]