Word evolution game but it branches. Make sure to create multiple branches on the first go. Please keep it to one change per post.
['ja.ma na 'o.mi]
jama na oumi
"Salmon of the Sea"
Branching Word Evolution Game
Branching Word Evolution Game
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Re: Branching Word Evolution Game
I'm bored and sick, so I might give this a try:
Common developments:
Unique developments:
['d͡ʑæː.β̃ənəˌeː.β̃ə]
džäme ne eme
"adult salmon"
(sometimes informally ['d͡ʑæːβ̃ə.ni.β̃ə] džämenime, though this variant is recessive and stigmatised)
Western
Unique developments:
['d̥ɐmɜ nɜ '(w)ʏœ̯m]
dama na üöm
"salmon of the sea"
Eastern
Unique developments:
['zɔ̃ːmɐ dɐ 'ɵ̃ːmɪ]
zâma da omi
"salmon of the sea"
Common developments:
- Fortition of /j/
- Open-syllable lengthening
- Umlaut ("i-affectation"), resulting in a series of front rounded vowels
Unique developments:
- Initial /j/ fortites to /d͡ʑ/
- /aː/ (from OSL) > /æː/ next to palatals, /ɒː/ next to labials; where both occur, there is variation
- Frication of voiced stops (a notable shibboleth)
- Weakening of unstressed vowels to /ə/
- Semantic development to "adult salmon" and incipient univerbation (though the compound is still reasonably transparent
['d͡ʑæː.β̃ənəˌeː.β̃ə]
džäme ne eme
"adult salmon"
(sometimes informally ['d͡ʑæːβ̃ə.ni.β̃ə] džämenime, though this variant is recessive and stigmatised)
Western
Unique developments:
- Initial /j/ fortites to /d/
- Long vowels resulting from OSL become falling diphthongs, but /a/ fails to lengthen
- Loss of unstressed high vowels; the remaining unstressed vowels are subphonemically centralised
['d̥ɐmɜ nɜ '(w)ʏœ̯m]
dama na üöm
"salmon of the sea"
Eastern
Unique developments:
- Initial /j/ fortites to /z/
- /a/ is rounded before nasals
- Nasals dissimilate to voiced consonants when the following consonant is also a nasal
- Unstressed vowels are slightly centralised, but never lost or weakened
- As this variety is more conservative, OSL and i-affectation fail to become phonemic
['zɔ̃ːmɐ dɐ 'ɵ̃ːmɪ]
zâma da omi
"salmon of the sea"