That would create a new tone phonemic falling tone: The falling tone that previously occurred before any syllable preceding low tone syllables word-finally would become phonemic, and previously low tone vowels within a word also become phonemic. Rising tone would also become phonemic. At that stage, you already have a full fledged tone system. As both low tone and rising tone are now rare and would contrast with each other an mid tone, they probably disappear. My suggestion for the most tone variety is that low tone becomes an allotone of falling tone after another falling tone, while rising tone is an allotone of mid tone after a falling tone. Alternatives include keeping them as very rare tones until low tone merges with falling tone anyway as indicated in your sound changes or having one or both merge with mid tone (which makes mid tone the majority of syllables). I also suggest splitting the change that this is part of (step 7 of Early Modern Shayana) into several changes, as this is rather a lot to be happening all at once. Grandparents probably wouldn't understand what language their grandchildren are speaking!Knit Tie wrote:leave a phonemic low and phonetically falling tone on the preceding vowel (/loxɑˀ/ → /lo˧˩x/).
Also, a few questions on naming:
What is Phoenician Shayana? How is it, a space language descended from English, "Phoenician"? What does Ilosean mean? What does Shayana mean? Where did all these names come from?