A descendant of Zomp's Proto-Eastern:
Stage 1 (very similar to Cuezi)
The feminine gender disappears.
ti -> si
te -> se
kt -> ht
Cs -> CVs (where the V could be 'i', 'u' or 'a' depending on the previous vowel)
V = i if the previous vowel is i or e,
V = a if the previous vowel is a, and
V=u if the previous vowel is o or u.
e.g. akrens 'maple' -> akreni,
fants 'spirit' -> fanta,
fwaks 'oak' -> fwaka,
gans' 'goose' -> gansa
CsVs -> CCVs
s -> 0 / _#, so aytsas 'summer' -> aytta (spelled 'aitta')
Initial consonant clusters are prefixed by an epenthetic i-, as in 'ihtaanem' ('to come').
ɣ -> r
rVr -> rV
ee -> ie
oo -> uo
Vx -> VhV
ae -> ai
oe -> oi
Stage 2:
The Great Vowel Shift!
The long 'a, i , u' and the diphthongs 'ai, ei, aw, ie, uo' sound like 'ei, ai, au, ei, ii, aa, ia, ua'.
So 'snow' is now 'naihte'. And:
taw 'he, she' -> taa
tawra 'fire' -> taara
raafs 'justice' -> reifa
nooktu 'night' -> nuahtu
γīra 'wife' -> raia
γiksis -> rikki
L-vocalization!
dark l -> w (spelled u).
kalkos -> kauku
The case endings are as follows:
Genitive: -e (though strange things can happen -- e.g. xaunu 'land' -> xaune, aitta 'summer' -> aitseihe)
Dative: -nu (aitta -> aitsanu)
Ablative: -tu (aitta -> aitsatu)
Instrumental: -ku (aitsaku)
There are two locative forms: the 'short form' which is irregular, and the 'long form' which derives from the preposition 'fa', so 'aitsafa'.
The plurals are complicated.
Stage 3:
The singular and plural forms take on singulative and collective meanings. The language develops a regular partitive plural suffix (similar to Quenya), -ni.
The dative, ablative, instrumental and locative case endings turn into prepositions: nu, tu, ku, fa. The genitive is regularized and turns into another preposition, he. The language now has four cases: nominative, accusative, prepositional, and locative (vestigial).
Stage 4:
Word-final -m disappears, and thus the accusative and prepositional cases merge.
A Proto-Eastern descendant
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Re: A Proto-Eastern descendant
This looks like a good start. I'd like to see this developed into a full-fledged conlang.
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Tha cvastam émi cvastam santham amal phelsa. -- Friedrich Schiller
ESTAR-3SG:P human-OBJ only human-OBJ true-OBJ REL-LOC play-3SG:A
Tha cvastam émi cvastam santham amal phelsa. -- Friedrich Schiller
ESTAR-3SG:P human-OBJ only human-OBJ true-OBJ REL-LOC play-3SG:A
Re: A Proto-Eastern descendant
Here are the numbers, in case I get Jankoed:
einu (sounds like the Cuezi for 'first', and the German for 'one'!)
duna
daima
beiro
panto
fetsa
xeipi
yoki
nebri
dehti
einu (sounds like the Cuezi for 'first', and the German for 'one'!)
duna
daima
beiro
panto
fetsa
xeipi
yoki
nebri
dehti