Re: Sound Shifts

Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...> wrote:
> I've also been thinking of possibly having the soundshifts [kw] >> [q]
> and [gw] >> [q<vcd>], maybe only before back vowels.  I seem to remembe=
r
> reading somewhere of another conlang whose conhistory has this kind of
> shift.
That's me, I think. Noltel Lethar (Old Speech) changed
the labiovelars kw, gw to uvular q, qg, in all environments
(that's unlikely, I know) when it became Drasel=E9q.
About 800 years later, some dialects had changed
uvular to velar before or after front vowels, and some
others had gone back, [q] > [kw] (maybe with an intermediate
stage, [qw]).


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