It occurs to me that I have a list of these hanging about somewhere as I intend on pillaging them for a daughter-language of proto-Tailanca at some point.Trebor wrote:cool thread; i would like to place a request for pie > albanian sound changes, and whatever comes in between.
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Here they are, but they're not in diachronic order though:
General Developments:
A voiced stop is lost between vowels under uncertain conditions, e.g. det sea < *dheubh-et
In a cluster of two stops the first is lost, e.g. nat? night < *nokwt-
In a cluster of stop+nasal, the stop disappears after the nasal was assimilated to the stop, e.g. gjum? sleep < *supnos
A stop after a nasal becomes voiced, e.g. n?nd? nine < *neun-ti
A nasal before a sibilant was lost, pes? five < *penkwe
In the Tosk dialect, intervocalic -n- becomes -r- and *aN becomes ?N.
The consonants:
bh > b
dh > d
tj > s
dj > z
dhj > z
kw > s (or k, under uncertain circumstances)
gw > z (or g)
gwh > z (or g)
k' > th
g' > dh
g'h > d- when initial, -dh- otherwise.
k'j > s
k'w > s
g'(h)w > z
k'l > q
g'l > gj
sk > shq before front vowels
sk > h
k' > k after a nasal
g' > g ditto
s- > sh- or gj- (seemingly at random)
-s > -sh or -? (ditto)
sp > f
sw > d before the stress, v otherwise.
sd(h) > z
r > rr or r (again, randomly)
sr > r (with lengthened vowel)
sl > ll (ditto)
l > l or ll (randomly)
n > nj (before front vowels)
-nj > -j when final
r= > ri
wl= > ul
m= > a
j > gj- (when initial, ? otherwise)
w > v (ditto)
i > e before ā
u > y before i in the next syllable
ū > y (or i)
e > je in an open syllable
e > ja in a closed syllable
e > i randomly
o > a (and then > e before an i in the next syllable)
oN > ?N
ō > e
ā > o
ā > va when initial
ei > i
oi > e
ai > e
eu > e
ou > a
au > a
au > ve when initial
N.B. <q> represents /c/, and <gj> /j\/
As can be seen, there's much we don't know.
Finnish and PFU