Re: Some Sound Changes

Roger Mills wrote:

>Jonathan Beagley wrote:
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>>Is there any resource on the Internet that has some attested sound
>>changes? I've created a language called Hloneno, and now I want to
>>reconstruct it's father/mother language, from which I can make other
>>languages, but I don't have much knowledge of how sounds change, and
>>would appreciate greatly if someone could point me to a place where I
>>can learn.
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>Cautionary advice:  it's difficult to conjure up a proto language from a
>modern one.  But try............One of the intro. texts on Historical
>Linguistics might give you some ideas. (And don't forget-- grammar tends to
>change, too)
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Well, I've decided to make the current language the proto language and
derive the modern ones from it, to save the trouble of it's reconstruction.

And concerning the grammar, what would happen if most of the grammatical
features of a language were suffixes? Would the suffixes get dropped
over time? If so, I can very easily picture one of my language's
descendants having no tense, aspect, or mood distinction.