Re: backwards conlanging

>I can imagine.  :-)  I love the idea; it makes a lot of sense and it lets
>you create families.  The problem is I don't know enough about deriving a
>language in this way, and all the conlang sites that do suggest this are
>terribly vague about possibilities.  (Langmaker.com has a neat table of
>common consonant changes, but doesn't say a darn thing about likely vowel
>changes.  I'm still reading up on phonetics/phonology and historical
>linguistics so I can get a handle on the processes involved.)
>
*SNIKT*!

Anyway, that's what I tried to do; I made up a modern language, and then I
extracted roots from it and made a second related language from those roots.

But the real point of this message is to ask whether anyone knows the
address of this "neat table of common consonant changes" mentioned above
which I have a bit of trouble finding --

-Imperative