Toki Ike

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s, ł > h
z > 0
λ > l
ƛ/c ƛ'/c' > c c'
k kw > k, q qw > q
i have these + a table of assimilations
mb nd ng > mm nn ŋŋ
h > ŋ
b d, etc > p' t' etc.
t > T then c > t

Numbers

kém, tiŋór, nakkʼ, laupʼ, taliŋ, tʼám, róʈʼ, loeʈʼ, pʼakkʼ, qʼeyór (?)

Phonology

Consonants

Perhaps most strikingly, most Kammalic languages are devoid of fricatives or aspirates. The following is the consonant inventory of Proto-Kammalic, arguably the most divergent of all of Pfeuno-Kitelucquian:

Proto-Kammalic consonants
Labial Dental Retroflex Palatal Velar Uvular
Nasal m /m/ n /n/ rn /ɲ/ ng /ŋ~ɴ/
Plosive plain p /p~b/ t /t~d/ rt /ʈ~ɖ/ k /k~g/ q /q~ɢ/
ejective /pʼ/ /tʼ/ rtʼ /ʈʼ/ /kʼ/ /qʼ/
Trill r /r/
Approximant w /w/ l /l/ y /j/

Vowels

Front Central Back
short long short long short long
Close i /i/ í /iː/ u /u/ ú /uː/
Close-mid e /e~ə/ é /eː/ o /o/ ó /oː/
Open a /a/ á /aː/

Composition

one descendant will turn them into geminates and another turns them into ejectives

and some with both geminates and ejectivs

and one outlier with fricatives! (via grimm's law: p' > p, p > f)