User:Ceige/Japonic experiments

Convenient Consonant Mappings

Bantu		⇒	Japonic
Grapheme	Phoneme		Grapheme	Phoneme
m	m		m	m
p	p		p	p
b	β		w	ɰᵝ
n	n		n	n
t	t		t	t
d	d~l		r	ɺ
ɲ	ɲ		n	n
c	c		s	s
j	j		j	j
k	k		k	k
g	ɣ		∅	∅

Less Convenient Vowel Mappings

Bantu		⇒	Japonic
Vowel	Allophone		Vowel	Descendant
i	i		i, ui, ǝi	i, i₂
ɪ	e		ai, ǝi	e₂
e	ɛ		ia, iǝ	e₁
a	a		a	a
u	u		u	u (ɯᵝ ?)
ʊ	o		ǝ	o₂
o	ɔ		ua, uǝ	o₁

Cool Phonological Laws

Japonic

Sources include: WP:Old Japanese#Restrictions

• "Words do not begin with r or the voiced plosives b, d, z and g, with the exception of a few loanwords." (WP 2018)
• "A bare vowel does not occur except for word-initially: vowel sequences were not permitted." (WP 2018)
• "Arisaka's Law states that -o2 is generally not found in the same morpheme as -a, -o1 or -u." (WP 2018)
• Also Japanese vowel devoicing (especially for closed vowels /i/ and /u/)