Talk:List of language change topics

I was thinking that we have different pages for the different sounds and features of sounds, each listing sound changes to and from.
For everything we should have one page per "feature", as opposed to a page per change.
List what you've done here.
--Personak 14:37, 15 January 2011 (PST)

Since sounds frequently change in groups, my idea in that "sound changes involving velars" section was to keep single-segment pages purely for phonetics and "occurs in X language", while sound changes could be described on pages about a class of sounds (eg. if you wanted to see how you could derive a /ts/, you'd check the "affricate" page). This seems like a good idea at least for those changes that are systematic (like zj sj → ʒ ʃ in English). Notable non-systematic changes like p → ɸ, f do seem to call for noting on the individual segment's page; but stuff like n → ɾ might not necessarily.

I agree that one individual page per change would be overkill. --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 11:39, 16 January 2011 (PST)