Diachrony

Warning: This section is a work in progress.

This page includes a list of changes from High Lulani to Demotic Lulani.

Phonology

A detailed up-to-date list of changes in kept at GitHub, in a Python file that applies these changes to a High Lulani word.

Lowering of back vowels before peripheral consonants.
Shifting of geminate consonants: unvoiced plosive → voiced plosive → voiced fricative
I-mutation of vowels when followed by /i/ in the next syllable.
Palatalisation of alveolar sounds when followed by /i/.
Loss of /i/ after geminate consonants.
Degemination of consonants.
Elision of unstressed /ə/, followed by consonant cluster reduction.
Reduction of remaining unstressed vowels to schwa.