Verse:Mwail/Erno-Kawenic languages

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Mwail/Erno-Kawenic languages

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Diachronics

Consonants

• p' -> PEK mˁ
• t' -> PEK tˁ
• k' -> PEK q
• PIr l -> PEK ć
• PIr y/g/hiatus breaker -> PEK y
• PIr k -> PEK ç
• PIr ng, r -> lengthens preceding vowel if before C, PEK 0 otherwise
• PIr s -> PEK χ
• PIr b/w -> PEK β
• PIr d -> ð (r in retroflexing environments)
• final nasal -> ŋ
• Non-final nasals stay put (n in PIr /rVn/ retroflexes)
• p, t stay put (t in PIr /rVt/ retroflexes)

Vowels

PIr ā a -> a ə

orV, arV -> arV, erV -> aV eV

Todo: lots of conditional vowel shifts

Vowel dissimilation? Because assimilation's boring

Family tree

• Erno-Kawenic
  • Kawenic
  • Ernic

Phonology

Consonants

m mˁ n ɳ ŋ

p t tˁ ʈ tɕ q

ʂ ç χ

β ð r j

Vowels

i e a o u ə + vowel length

Coloring effects

Grammar

I have to have a solid idea of how nouns work in PEK; I'm probably gonna cliticize classifiers after nouns

So the classifier is almost a suffix, maybe fully a suffix by PEK

That may affect the Ernish I have now, which I'm willing to accept. In that case Ernish should probably choose one form, probably the PEK genitive plural for most nouns.

Ensuring that Quququqquq genitives always end in a vowel is easy

Genitive should be -some vowel + (ng) in PI

Some nouns, like family terms and body parts, shouldn't have classifiers