Re: Sound change rules for erosion

There are some sound rules which are more widespread than others. One is
lenition, usually intervocalically. Another is vowel-affection (of which
'umlauting' is probably the best-known). In one of your examples, that weak
vowel sound /w/ in "kowapo" between two back vowels is just crying out to
disappear and be replaced by the ensuing diphthong /au/. Likewise, the /p/
could rapidly lenit to /b/ giving us /kaub/ for the word. "Kaub" sounds
pretty monosyllabic, tonesome and Germanic! However these sound changes are
dependent on other factors, such as stress patterns in your conwords.
Mike


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