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Porphyrogenitos
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Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread

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Just a small thing with a surface vowel inventory generated from underlying /i e a/ and /w/:

/m n/
/p t k/
/b d g/
/s x/
/w/

/a e i/

All segments spelled as in the IPA.

Syllable structure is maximally CwVwC. Stress is word-final. Long/geminate vowels and consonants are forbidden; multiple adjacent instances of the same segment are reduced to one. Underlying consonants that are stranded outside a syllable are deleted.

/w/ may occupy a syllable nucleus.

when occupying the beginning of the onset, /w/ > [v]
when acting as a glide following an onset consonant, /w/ > [w]
when occupying a syllable nucleus, /w/ > [ u]
when occupying any coda position,

/iw/ > [y]
/ew/ > [ø]
/aw/ > [o]

This results in various surface-level alternations:

/aka/ 'see'
/wd/ 'know'
/w/ 1
/a/ 2
/∅/ 3
/∅/ sing.
/t/ du.
/i/ plu.

stem + person + number

[aˈko] 'I see'
[aˈka] 'you (sing.) see'
[aˈka] 'he/she/it sees'
[aˈkot] 'we two see'
[aˈkat] 'you two see'
[aˈkat] 'they two see'
[akaˈvi] 'we see'
[akaˈi] 'you all see'
[akaˈi] 'they see'

[uˈdu] 'I know'
[uˈda] 'you (sing.) know'
[ud] 'he/she/it knows'
[uˈdut] 'we two know'
[uˈdat] 'you two know'
[ud] 'they two know'
[uˈdwi] 'we know'
[udaˈi] 'you two know'
[uˈdi] 'they know'

Edit: Continued in this thread. -Aevas, 2020-05-08
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