SOUND CHANGES

DAY THREE - How do sounds change if grammar or etymology creates Forbidden Consonant Combinations?

First off, I have no linguistic basis for this method of constructing rules and to that I say TORPEDOES BE DAMNED, FULL SPEED AHEAD.

So, first we'll do fricative/affricate combinations, to which I have made an amendment. Fricatives do not follow fricatives or affricates. This has the value of consistency; fricative sound into fricative sound. So.

Fricative to fricative, the first one is dropped. i.e. s+sh goes to sh, h+f goes to f, etc. Affricate into fricative... After staring at my consonants for five minutes and thinking, I've decided the fricative is dropped.

All right. Now I have that s, ts, r, and l cannot be followed by k, kh, sh, or h. s and ts plus sh or h are already handled under the fricative rules. Again, I have sat and stared at my consonant chart for several minutes while thinking. The result of this is... ah...

Well.

I am redoing my consonant sound rules! HURRAY! Ignore everything you just read!

- silent vowel after a stop when the stop is followed by another consonant
- fricatives can follow ANY consonant
- r, l and m cannot precede a consonant - perhaps they cannot end a syllable at all
- affricates that follow a consonant tend to turn into their corresponding fricative. pf->f etc.

Also, I'm going to reverse the silent consonant to preceding a front vowel when the prior sound is a vowel; I like the sound flow generally going back-to-front rather than front-to-back.

*brushes hands off* I think that does it for now. Tomorrow, we will start ~grammar~.