Re: Some Sound Changes

Jonathan Beagley wrote:

> 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.
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)

I seem to recall, someone, somewhere, once on this List, proposed to put
together a sort-of "Compendium of Observed Sound Changes", but clearly
nothing ever came of it.  Those of us who have knowledge of various language
families ought to try to make summaries of some sort; perhaps it could
become one of the "Conlang Links".  (And yes, I know how hard it would be,
since the average reconstruction is a multi-volume work .:-((( )

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