Re: Sound changes

On Tue, 7 Jun 2005 21:56:04 -0400, # 1 <salut_vous_autre@...> wrote:

>I have a question concerning the sound changes occuring in the languages
>
>I thought of creating a list of sound changes for my conlang (It could
>remove the regularity that I don't like in Vbazi)
>
>But I didn't know how much..
>
>How much sound changes may occur naturaly in languages in a gived period of
>time?
>
>
>I thought of doing this when I pronounced words and felt it would be easier
>to do with other sounds that don't exist in Vbazi
>
>In the list I thought, there are rules like /h/ between 2 vowels or at the
>end of a word becomes /x/, /dz/ becomes /D/, /hw/ -> /p\/, /bv/ -> /B/, and
>some others...
>
>But I don't want to create too much before knowing how much time would pass
>for having a quantity of sound changes.
>
>
>I also want to do this to have a mother language as source for creating new
>words like languages do with latin...
>
>- Max
Salut Max !

I've also been experimenting with sound change to construct a web of inter-
related languages derived from a common ancestor.

For example, P.A. [dh]/#_ > Q.[d] ; E.[T] ; F. [t(w)]
attested in P.A. *DHU- > Q. "du(n)" ; E. "thu" ; F. "tuin"

Of course any given word may owe its present form to a sequence of changes.

e.g P.A. *ALBH- > Q. albhu > abhui > avui:r, avuija, etc.


I'd be interested to know what sort of changes you're proposing.

Dans l'attente, ciao !

Nic