Sounds Changes

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Ehecatl12
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Sounds Changes

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Hi Guys, I have come up with some sounds changes I have applied to a daughter language from the Proto language. There are some things I wanted to check.

Firstly this is the phonology of Rinki, the proto language.

/p t k/
/f,v s,z ʃ h/
/pf tʃ ts/
/m n ŋ w l r j/

/i u/
/e o/
/a/

/ei/ /ai/ /oi/

It changes to this in a daughter Language;

/p t k/
/f,v s,z ʃ h/
/ɸ θ x/
/pf tʃ ts/
/m n ŋ w l r j/

/i y ɪ u ʊ/ <i ü ì u ù>
/e ɛ o ɔ/ <e è o ò>
/a/ <a>

This is hardly exciting, but it's the first time I've really done anything like this, any way. Here are the sound changes;

/ei/ /ai/ /oi/ > /i/ /e/ /u/

ue /eu > ü

kw > p
h > x / _#

Cy,w_V / CV_V ntuyu > ntyʊ
u/i > w/y / C_V
u/i > w/y / _V

r > l

s > z / _C

Stops become /ɸ θ x/ before front vowels /i e/

The biggest sound change of all occurs with vowels that are tonic, pre and post tonic.

What happens is the vowel after the stressed is deleted, this is always the final vowel as stress is penultimate. The tonic vowel or vowel under stress then moves towards the vowel that has been dropped.

kwesmi > pìzm /pɪzm/
nkanku > nkònk /ŋkɔŋk/

Essentially these are the changes;

...i ...e ...a ...o ...u
i… i ì ì i ì
e… ì è a è ì
a… è a a a ò
o… ù ò ò ò ù
u… u ù ù ù u

The vowel on the left is the vowel that will under the change, and the vowels to the right, are the ones which drop and affect what the tonic vowel will become.

Finally the pretonic vowel will match the newly change tonic vowel. Any vowel that is before the pretonic vowel is not changed.

Akonuasi turon > Akènwèz tùln
cakpimpaptu > cakpòmpòpt

How do these look, plausible at all?

Apologizes for that table, I made it in notepad.
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