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My advice would be to find a language/language family that you are really interested in and then look up its phonological history. For example, "The Austronesian Languages" by Robert Blust (there's a pdf online if you google it) has a great summary of sound changes in those languages. Thank you. :m...

If I may break the conversation flow to ask a quick question, I am interested in learning more about sound changes, but my book, "Historical Linguistics: And Introduction" by Lyle Campbell only has about thirty pages about the types of sound changes (which, considering the scope of the book, makes s...

First of all, thanks to everyone for your input. :-D You are overlooking abugidas ... Indeed, I failed to mention abugidas, but I have not forgotten them. In fact I attempted to make one based on the Brahmic script, and found that my language is not strictly CV in format, and I am not familiar with ...

As far as I can tell, and from my reading in Geoffrey Sampson's book "Writing Systems: A Linguistic Introduction", it appears that we have our first alphabet (having symbols for each individual consonant and vowel) from the ancient Greeks. The Greeks took the Phoenician script (which is an abjad, si...