User:Ceige/Lian

Principle Sound Changes

Initial Sound Changes

• Accent system becomes more like English
• Unstressed vowels undergo reduction

• /falánxe/ → /fəlanxə/ → /flanx/
• /leŋgwa/ → /leŋgwə/ → /leŋgʷ/
• /ɟʝéɾβa/ → /ɟʝeɾβə/ → /ɟʝeɾβ/
• /gwáɾða/ → /gwaɾðə/ > /gwaɾð/
• /béɾɣa/ > /beɾɣə/ > /beɾɣ/
• /estáðo/ > /əstaðə/ > /stað/

• Consonant clusters are simplified

• Nasal vowels appear

• /flanx/ → /flãx/
• /leŋgʷ/ → /lẽgʷ/

• Debuccalisation of voiceless fricatives preceding consonants with more closure, and also generally

• /flãx/ → /hlãx/, eventually resulting in /l̥ʰãx/
• /stað/ > /htað/

• Syllable final preconsonantal /ɾ/ and /l/ become /ˡ ʲ ᵟ or ᵨ/ because I lack a decent symbol.

• /ɟʝeɾβ/ > /ɟʝeᵟβ/
• /gwaɾð/ > /gwaᵟð/

• Nasal vowels change quality

• /hlãx/ → /hlaʷx/ → /hlaxʷ/
• /leŋgʷ/ → /leᵚgʷ/ → /legʷ/

Secondary Sound Changes

• /ð/, /β/ and /ɣ/ are weakened, but still written

• /ɟʝeᵟβ/ > /ɟʝeᵝ/
• /gwaᵟð/ > /gwaᵟ/
• /beᵟɣ/ > /beˤ/

• hC → Cʰ

• /hlaxʷ/ → /l̥ʰaxʷ/
• /htað/ > /tʰaᵟ/

• Palatalisation of /l/ before front vowels

• /legʷ/ > /jegʷ/

• Fortition and subsequent delateralisation of /l/ before back vowels

• xʷ becomes f

• /hlaxʷ/ → /hlaf/