User:Melroch/Rhodrese

This as yet unnamed Romlang initially has the developments you would expect from a Western Romance language. However at a later time there is vowel mutation by a high or low vowel (a < ă/ā, i < ī, u < ū), with final vowels later being lost, or in the case of -a being reduced to -e [ə]. Somewhat unexpectedly plurals of the first declension show forms as if the a-mutated vowels of the singular had later undergone i-mutation. This most certainly is due to analogy with the second and third declension rather than to a preserved [ai̥] ending — or did an ending pronounced [æ] cause such a 'double' mutation?

Stressed vowels

Latin	VL	W. Rmc.	No mut.	a-mut.	i-mut	a/i-mut.	u-mut.
ī	i‍̣	ĭ	i	e‍	i	i	eu /y/
		ī		ie		e
ĭ	i‍̨	ẹ̆	e	e	i	i	eu
		ẹ̄	ei	ie		e
ē	ẹ	ẹ̆	e	e	i	i	eu
		ẹ̄	ei	ie		e
ĕ	e‍̨	ĕ‍̨	e	e	i	i	oe /ø/ > e
		ē‍̨	ie	ie	e	e	ue /yø/
ă, ā	a	a	a	a	ae /æ/ > e	e	o
ŏ	o‍̨	ŏ‍̨	o	o	e	e	o
		ō‍̨	uo	uo	ue	ue	uo
ō	ọ	ŏ‍̣	o	o	oe > e	oe > e	o
		ọ̄	ou	uo	eu	ue	ou
ŭ	ų	ŏ‍̣	o	o	oe > e	oe > e	o
		ọ̄	ou	uo	eu	ue	ou
ū	ụ	ŭ	u	o	eu	oe > e	u
		ū		uo		ue

Consonants:

Intervocalic b > v; g' > j i; p, t, k', k > b, d, g', g but tj, kj > voiceless ts, gj > [dʒ] gi. Unpalatalized original g tends to disappear.

Initial k', kj, tj > ts c(i); initial g', gj > [dʒ] (g)i.

dj in all positions > [dz] z.

ct > [tʃ] spelled x, while actual x = ks > s or undergoes metathesis to sk, which may be palatalized to [ʃ] 'sc(i) along with original sc.

Voiced stops and affricates ending up final after the loss of final vowels become devoiced, spelled p, t, z [ts] (later ç), (i)x [tʃ], c.

Final [ʃ] is spelled V(i)ss/Vis, later sç, with occasionally sz/sx in early texts.

Word initial ie, ue, uo are spelled hie, hue, huo, since the normal medieval pronunciation of initial prevocalic i, u was j, v.

The vowels [æ] ae and [ø] oe were found in the earliest texts, but later merged with e, while [y] eu and. The spelling ue remained, but probably shifted from [yø] to [ye].

A k, g, sk before a front vowel that arose through mutation wasn't palatalized. They are spelled ch, gh, sch.