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Cauvit (or Saavit), made using this dictionary and a bunch of Wikipedia pages.
Etymology
Proto-Austronesian *Cau and *ita, which is generalised as a plural marker and the -a is lost after being reanalysed as some sort of unnecessary suffix to the *-it- part.
Phonological correspondences
The sound changes from Proto-Austronesian to fit an Inuit-inspired mould are not particularly complicated. To keep things as simple as possible, the target phonology for converting Austronesian etyma into Inuit-esque words is roughly Proto-Eskimo-Aleut to Proto-Eskimo. The final columns are there for examples of daughter phonemes in contemporary Inuit languages.
| Proto-Austronesian Blust & Trussel 2017 |
Proto-Cauwit PEA-inspired phonology |
Proto-Cauvit PE inspired |
Sauvit Inupiaq/Natsilik inspired |
Saavit Kalaallisut inspired |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| p /p/ | p /p/ | p /p/ | Same as Proto-Cauvit | |
| b /b/ | p /p/, -v- /v/ | |||
| m /m/ | m /m/ | |||
| w /w/ | v /v/ | |||
| t /t/ | t /t/ | |||
| d /d/ | t /t/, -ð- /ð/ | t /t/, Ø | t /t/, Ø | |
| n /n/ | n /n/ | n /n/ | n /n/ | |
| S /s/ | s /s/ | s /s/ | s /s/ | |
| C /t͡s/ | c /t͡s/ | s /s/, | ||
| l /l/ | l /l/ | |||
| r /ɾ/ | ř /sʲ~ɾ~ɟ/ | |||
| ñ /ɲ/ | ň /ɲ/ | |||
| s /ç/ | š /sʲ/ | |||
| c /c͡ç/ | č /t͡sʲ/ | |||
| z /ɟ͡ʝ/ | ž /ɟ/ (ř?) | |||
| N /lʲ/ | ň /ɲ/ | |||
| y /j/ | j /j/ | |||
| k | ||||
| g /g/ | ||||
| j /ɡʲ/ | ž /ɟ/ (ř?) | |||
| ŋ /ŋ/ | ||||
| q /q/ | q /q/ | q /q/ | ||
| h /h/ | Ø | |||
| R /r/ or /ʀ/ | ||||
| i /i/ | i /i/, e /e/ | |||
| u /u/ | u /u/, o /o/ | |||
| a /a/ | a /a~ɑ/ | |||
| e /ə/ | ə /ə/ | |||
- Red: Possibly all the same consonant, depends on data from Inupiaq and Natsilingmiutut/Natsilik.