Re: sound change question

>First question:  do you intend to keep all of the original stops?  If
>not, you can have loads of fun turning them into various fricatives, and
>that'll be your answer right there.  If you do want to keep the stops,
>things get a little more difficult.
>
>I would recommend using the neighboring vowels to creat the sound shifts.
> For example, perhaps /s z/ is palatalized before a high vowel, giving
>/s\  z\ /.  LIkewise, /S Z/ might become /C J/ before a back vowel, or
>any number of other things.  My phonetics is failing me right now, so I'm
>not exactly sure what would be a typical sound change, but I'm sure you
>can change something.  Then, if you want to make the differences
>phonemic, you'll have to do something to change the vowels so that the
>sounds are actually contrastive.
Sacrificial stops sound like an excellent plan.  I was going to kill the
retroflexes...

...and the voicedness distinction in the stops can cause some weird things
to the other consonants around them.  Yes.

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Shreyas