User:Chrysophylax/Idephines

My latest chamlang, in the style of Dhannuá being "plausibly Celtic" at first glance, this shall be "plausibly at first glance" a mystical love child of Proto-Greek and Proto-Albanian, avec dashes of liquamen. It is named after the Boetian word for sweet-voiced, ἴδηφιν.

Changes from Proto-Indo-European

Misc. changes pilfered from Proto-Albanian and Proto-Greek

• /s/ > /h/ \ V_V, /s/ > /θ/ \ _V
• /y/ > /dy/ \ #_
• Loss of final stop consonants; /m/ > /n/ \ _#

Plosives

• /p/ > /p/
• /t/ > /t/
• /k/ > /k/, /χ/ \#_R
• "/b/" > /b/
• /d/ > /d/,
• /g/ > /g/
• /bh/ > /b/, /ph/ \ R_, V_V
• /dh/ > /d/, /th/ \ R_, V_V, /thy/ > /čč/ > /θ/
• /gh/ > /g/, /χ/ \ R_, V_V, /khy/ > /čč/ > /θ/ \ #_

Pilfered from Aeolic

• VhR (from *s) > VRR, where R = l n r m w y
• Mostly athematic inflection (-mi set)
• Athematic infinitive in -menai, thematic in -men