Word evolution game

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Coda consonants and geminates drag stress, which is now primarily on the last heavy syllable (geminates interpreted as the same consonant in the coda of the preceding syllable and onset of the next).

[ˌlʲɪɲ.ɟʑᶣɤ'ʁæɕ.ɕä]

[Man in Space]

Loss of pretonic vowels where these vowels are not in the initial syllable:

[lʲɪɲ'ɟʑᶣʁæɕ.ɕä]

[Zju]

Resolution of secondary articulation (seriously, how has ᶣ been preserved in those environments so far?)

[lᶣʏɲ'ɟʑʁœɕ.ɕä]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

a-mutation:

[lᶣœɲ'ɟʑʁɔɕ.ɕä]

[vegfarandi]

Affrication of geminate sibilants

[lᶣœɲ'ɟʑʁɔ.tɕä]

[Zju]

Affricates simplify to stops in front of continuants:

[lᶣœɲ.'ɟʁɔ.tɕä]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[lᶣ] > [ɥ]

[ɥœɲ.'ɟʁɔ.tɕä]

[vegfarandi]

Deaffrication continues.

[ɥœɲ.'ɟʁɔ.tä]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Unstressed syllable reduction

[ɥəɲ.'ɟʁɔ.tɐ]

[vegfarandi]

Loss of unstressed final vowels.

[ɥəɲ.'ɟʁɔt]

[Zju]

[ɥ] decomposes to [u̯j ~ wi̯]:

[u̯jəɲ.'ɟʁɔt]

[vegfarandi]

Approximant + ə > vocalic value of approximant.

[u̯iɲ.'ɟʁɔt]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[ɲ] > [j]

[u̯ij.'ɟʁɔt]

[vegfarandi]

Diphthong/triphthong contour slackening.

[wei̯.'ɟʁɔt]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

[we] > [jɔ]

[jɔi̯.'ɟʁɔt]

[Travis B.]

Elision of [i̯] before [ɟ].

[jɔ.'ɟʁɔt]

[Zju]

Vowel breaking:

[jɔ.'ɟʁɔɐ̯t]

[Rounin Ryuuji]

Reduction of pretonic unstressed vowels

[jə.'ɟʁɔɐ̯t]

[vegfarandi]

ɟ > d

[jə.'dʁɔɐ̯t]

[Zju]

fortition

[ɟə.'dʁɔɐ̯t]