!suta

!suta was a language spoken in the Lescealh prior to the Faraneih colonization, when it went extinct, largely due to mass migration within and into Lescealh during that era.

Sound and Grammatical Changes from Proto-Rajo-Faraneit

To be blunt, information on !suta is sketchy at best, due to its wholesale extinction. The few scraps of the language that survived long enough to be written down are primarily loan words into various Bokeit dialects, which were essentially eradicated very soon after any sort of preservation.

Known Sound Changes

• Development of Clicks and Vowel System Simplification
  • /r l ɻ ɭ/ delete syllable terminally
  • /pf) f bv) v ts) s tθ) θ x/ delete and lengthen the previous vowel syllable terminally
  • /p b t d k q/ delete syllable terminally
  • /m n/ delete and nasalize the previous vowel syllable terminally
  • /tɛ dɛ kɛ qɛ tɐ dɐ kɐ qɐ/ + C > ǃC ǃC ǂC ǂC ǃC ǃC ǂC ǂC
  • /mɛ mɐ pɛ pɐ bɛ bɐ/ + C > ʘC ʘC ʘC ʘC ʘC ʘC
  • /nɛ nɐ/ + C > ǀC ǀC
  • /pf) f bv) v ts) s z tθ) θ x r l ɻ ɭ/ + /ɐ ɛ/ + C > C
  • Then #ɛ#, #ɐ# > DELETE
  • Cɐ Cɛ > Ca
• Cluster and Affricate Simplification
  • ds sd ts st dθ θd tθ θt tθ) > z z s s ð ð θ θ θ
  • ks sk qs sq kθ θk qθ θq > ʃ ʃ x x x x χ χ
  • ps sp bs sb pθ θp bθ θb > ɸ ɸ β β ɸ ɸ β β
  • pf fp pf) bv vb bv) > f f f v v v
  • kx xk xq qx > x x x x
  • mb bm mp pm > m m m m
  • nb bn np pn > m m m m
  • nd dn nt tn > n n n n
  • nk kn nq qn > n n n n
  • iV uV > jV wV
  • sj tj > ʂ ʈʂ > s ts)
• Vowel Affections
  • u(:C)a(:), i(:C)a(:), e(:C)a(:), o(:C)a(:) > o(:C)a(:), e(:C)a(:), a(:C)a(:), a(:C)a(:)
  • u(:C)i(:), o(:C)i(:), a(:C)i(:) > y(:C)i(:), ø(:C)i(:), e(:C)i(:)
  • i(:C)u(:), e(:C)u(:), a(:C)u(:) > ɯ(:C)u(:), ɤ(:C)u(:), ɤ(:C)u(:)
• Other
  • f v ɸ β > DELETE
  • pf) bv) > f v
  • ʃ > x
  • qi qe ka ko > ki ke qa qo
  • ɻ ɭ > ʀ ʟ