Re: Sound changes causing divergence of ordinals from cardinals

On Thu, 5 Jan 2006 11:19:18 -0600, Nik Taylor <yonjuuni@...> wrote:

>Alex Fink wrote:
>> (2) Primary stress is penultimate (unless there's only one vowel).  Vowels
>> under the primary stress shift: non-high vowels rise (/a e 2 Q o/ > /e i y o
>> u/), while high vowels break (/i y u/ > /j@ H@ w@/).
>
>*Stressed* Schwa?  Wouldn't that be better as /i@/ /y@/ and /u@/?  For
>ease of further changes, I'm adding stress markers as well.
Why not?  Take the schwas as /3/s if you really want.  /j@ H@ w@/ just
'cause they're rising diphthongs, and since elsewhere we've taken two
adjacent vowel symbols /ao/ as two separate syllable nuclei.

>(3) Intervocalic voiceless stops become fricatives (/x/ further develops
>to /h/ and then 0)
Weird that original /h/ sticks around, then.

I think you missed an inervocalic /k/ in the ordinal of 9:

Value Cardinal        Ordinal
1     'j@wQ           i'wee
2     'nero           na'rue
3     'mj@o           mi'ue
4     'tuo            to'ue
5     'kin            'kinke
6     'jesu           ja'sw@e
7     'Sj@gu          Si'gw@e
8     'dZuz2          dZo'zie
9     'hj@ja          hi'jee
10    'neo            na'ue
11    'hero           ha'rue
12    'utsu           ot'sw@e
13    nao'mj@o        naomi'ue
20    naro'noo        naronQ'ue
21    naronQ'H@wQ     naronQy'wee
22    naronQo'noro    naronQonQ'rue
30    mio'noo         mionQ'ue
31    naronQo'horo    naronQohQ'rue
32    naronQ'utsu     naronQo'tsw@e
33    mikonQo'mj@o    mionQomi'ue

Alex