Toki Ike

Historical phonology

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

Finnishy subfamily

ay > ää
ey > ee
ew, oi > öö
iw, uy > üü
aw > åå
ow > oo

Numbers

kēm, tingōr, nakkʼ, laupʼ, taling, tʼām, rōrtʼ, loyrtʼ, pʼakkʼ, qʼeyōr (?)

Phonology

Consonants

Perhaps most strikingly, most Kammalic languages have simple syllables and are devoid of fricatives or aspirates. The following is the consonant inventory of Proto-Kammalic:

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 /pʼ/	tʼ /tʼ/	rtʼ /ʈʼ/		kʼ /kʼ/	qʼ /qʼ/
Trill			r /r/
Approximant		w /w/	l /l/		y /j/

Vowels

	Front		Central		Back
	short	long	short	long	short	long
Close	i /i/	ī /iː/			u /u/	ū /uː/
Close-mid	e /e~ə/	ē /eː/			o /o/	ō /oː/
Open			a /a/	ā /aː/

a e i o u ā ē ī ō ū ay aw ey ew iw oy ow uy ia ua āy āw ēy ēw īw ōy ōw ūy īa ūa

Composition

• Ejectives > geminates
  • Estonian parody
  • Hyper-minlang
• Geminates > ejectives
• ejective > creaky voice > tone
  • Salish/Spittem parody
• Both geminates and ejectives
  • Finno-Bantu
• Outlier with fricatives and syncope

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

and some with both geminates and ejectivs

one descendent should have overlong consonants and overlong vowels written with triple consonants and triple vowels

and one outlier with fricatives! (via grimm's law: p' > p, p > f) the outlier with fricatives should also have syncope

Grammar

Quasi-polysynthetic with big clitic complexes or verbs