Re: Announcing Ale, the first ever Mungayödic daughter language!

Roger Mills wrote:

> Stage 1:  iu > ij, so ** fijvUljO    OK
>     and l > w, so **fijvUwjO    this is the problem I think
> Stage 2:  j > l, so  **filvUwlO    another problem
>     and  Uw > w, so **filvwlO
> so you have no environment left for the final syllable in Stage 3, (C)j(V) >
> (C)i:
>
> Unless I've overlooked something.............?
I missed out the part about [l] in clusters. That l -> w change only
applied to solo consonants. The clustered ones didn't change until the
third stage. I guess that makes it a conditioned change, doesn't it?

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