Re: Plausible Sound-shifts

Wow, you guys really helped clear some things up for me and have given me
some things to think about.

I can see that the /l,w/ and /r,j/ pairling seems to be somewhat implausible.

What I've decided to do here then, is move the /l/ into the coda with the
/n/ and /r/, and move the /j/ into the onset. Also, instead of /w/ and /j/,
I've gone with the suggested diphthongs of /ue/ and /ie/, which has opened
up a larger number of onsets for me. For example, the sound /nwe/ bothers my
ears, but I have no such problems with /nue/. I can also have /lue/ (I
refused to have /lwe/), and so on. The same with the /j/ --> /i/, which also
opens up several previously undesierable onsets. I also no longer need to
worry about the /tl/ and /dl/ prohibition since /l/ is no longer an onset.

I've decided to continue with the prohibition on more than one sibilant near
the vowel.

To the person asking what I meant by syllabant: that was a spelling error on
my part. I meant to say "sibilant" and someone on the list kindly corrected
me off list. I seem to be mistaken about the meaning of sibilant though,
since it doesn't refer to what I meant:  /u/, /i/, /l/, /n/, or /r/ which
become syllabic in the zero-grade.

Thanks to people who have helped on this list, my list of potential roots
has jumped from a mere 1000 or so, to 2500 (thereabouts). Now I just need to
come up with a good set of root words.

I have several different lists of common English words (Much thanks to
Theiling for having a PROPERLY set up list of most common English words
(unlike other lists that list be/is/am/etc... as seperate entries). However,
what I need is not a list of MODERN words, but a good list of words that a
proto-culture would use. I was thinking of using the dublex roots (410), but
they seem a little TOO abstract, and failry defficient in several
catagories. Then I thought about using the Universal Language Dictionary
entries (1,602), but once again, many of the terms seemed a little too modern.

Recommendations?