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sound changes btwn old & new Basu Basu
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Ongoing processes:
- High or mid vowels are deleted between two same consonants or a same consonant & following yod.
- Alveolar consonants followed by a yod either become geminate or plain.
- Before mid & high rounded vowels, /h/ becomes /ɸ/.
- Before all front vowels, /t d s/ become /tʃ dʒ ʃ/.
- Roll for Sporadic Unexplained Sound Change: Metathesis, dissimilation, elision, epenthesis, and arbitrary tonal shifts are all good choices. Let's say a 5% ish chance? Can roll out of 5 if not sure which approach to go with, can roll to determine when in the word's evolution the change occurs if unsure where to put it.
- Breaking of /ɛ e i ɔ o/ > /ɛu eu iu ɔu ou/ before velar /k ŋ/
- Nope nvm: /ɛu ɔu eu iu ou/ > /jɔ ɔ: jo ju o:/
- Phonemic /ʃ/!
- Where they follow an open (CV-CCV) syllable on their left and are in light (CV) syllables, the high and mid vowels /e o ø ə i u y ɨ/ are lost. (e.g. abita > abta, but ambita > ambita). Word-final syllables are unaffected.
- (1st Dialect Split)
- Any two stops beside one another assimilate to the second stop's place of articulation and voice (e.g. abta > atta).
- Before voiceless obstruents /p t k tʃ ɸ s ʃ h/, nasal consonants are deleted and leave nasalization in their wake.
- Easily-blocked short vowel shift: /ɛ e i/ > /a ə ɨ/. Blocked by following /j ʃ t d s n ɺ/ or /i y e ø ɛ œ/, blocked in final syllables, and blocked 20% of time at random.
- Between two vowels, /p t k/ become /b d g/, introducing [g].
- Where they follow an open syllable, final short /e o ø ə/ are deleted.
- Vowel Inventory Reduction pt. 1: Short /e o ø ɨ/ > /ɛ ɔ œ a/ when followed by a low vowel /ɛ ɔ œ a/ in the next syllable, when nasal, or when followed by a nasal consonant.
- Vowel Inventory Reduction pt. 2: All short /e o ø ɨ/ > /i u y ə/
- Vowel Inventory Reduction pt. 3: Long /e: o: ø: ɨ:/ > /ɛ: ɔ: œ: a:/ unless there is a high vowel /i u y ɨ/ in the next syllable, in which case they become /e: o: ø: ə:/.
- Middle: Vowel Harmony
- /h/ is deleted, leaving long vowels & rising tone in coda.
- Deaffrication: /tʃ/ becomes /ʃ/ and /dʒ/ becomes /ʒ/.
- After palatal consonants /ʃ ʒ/, /j/ is deleted.
- Vowel clean-up: Before another vowel: Front vowels /ɛ i/ become /j/. Front rounded vowels /œ y/ become /ɥ/. Back round vowels /ɔ u/ become /w/. Identical vowels become one long vowel. Combinations involving initial center unrounded vowels /a ə/ become closing diphthongs /aɔ aɛ aœ əu əi əy/.
- Consonant gemination is lost, making /g/ phonemic in the standard dialect.
- /g/ lenits to /ɣ/, which devoices to /x/.
- (2nd Dialect Split)
- /ɣ/ devoices to /x/. At the end of a word, it becomes /k/; elsewhere, it debuccalizes to /h/.
- Vowels after the palatal glides /j ɥ/ are fronted, /a ɔ ə u/ > /ɛ œ i y/
- Long vowels other than /a: ə:/ diphthongize: open /ɛ: ɔ: œ:/ > /aɛ aɔ aœ/ and close /i: u: y:/ > /əi əu əy/.
- Chain shift with loss of front round diphthongs: /aœ/ > /aɔ/ > /a:/ and /əy/ > /əu/ > /ə:/
- /ɥ/ becomes /w/.
- Rhotacism: /ʒ/ > /ɹ/
- R lenition: /ɺ/ becomes /j/, except in coda, where it is re-analyzed as /ɹ/.
- /ɹ/ becomes /ɾ/.
- Awkward nasal clean-up: After another consonant, /m n ŋ/ become /w j j/.
- Early Modern: Dialect Contact
- Loss of coda voiced stops /b d g/, with compensatory lengthening on short vowels they followed.
- Allophonic palatal affrication of stops before front vowels
- If a word is genuinely commonly used & is elligible, throw some haplology at it.
this part is extra wip! there are two possibilities: an older dialect split which has since leveled out, and a more active & current one. (orr both?)
differences from just after "Where they follow an open (CV-CCV) syllable on their left..." to the advent of vowel harmony:
- Any two stops beside one another assimilate to the second stop's voicing (e.g. abta > apta).
- Vowel inventory reduction & Chain Shift: /o o:/ > /u u:/ > /y y:/.
- /e e: ø ø: ɨ ɨ:/ become /ɛ: i œ: y ə ə/
- When followed by /i/ or /j/ in the next syllable, /a a:/ becomes /ɛ ɛ:/. Blocked by intervening /w/.
- Before a following /o u y ø/: /a > ɔ/ and /ə > u/
- Where they follow a light syllable (CV), final short /i u y ə/ are deleted.
- Loss of length distinction in /a ə/
- /ə/ > /æ/, except when nasal or followed by a nasal consonant, in which case they become /a a:/
differences from "Vowel Clean-up" to early modern:
- Vowel breaking: /ɛ: ɔ: œ: i: u: y:/ > /ja wa ɥa jæ wæ ɥæ/
- Lax /ɛ ɔ œ/ rise to /ɪ ʏ ʊ/ and tense /i u y/ drop to /e o ø/
- After bilabial consonants /p b ɸ m/, /w/ is deleted. (E.g. kwapwa > kwapa).
- Loss of closing diphthongs: /aɛ aɔ aœ/ > /a: ɔ: œ:/ and /æi æu æy/ > /æ: u: y:/
- Rhotacism: /ʒ/ > /ɹ/. /ɹ/ and /ɺ/ are then conflated in /ɾ/.
- Awkward nasal clean-up: Nasal consonants assimilate in place to preceding stops; a stop followed by a nasal consonant is then elided. (e.g. abna > ama).
- When they follow an open syllable, loss of word-final /a æ/
note: consider tossing /ʃ/ for more /h/ (either shove it before deaffrication or just toss everything); change type of vowel reduction?
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