Lâura

The Lâura language is a branch of Khulls spoken in Poswob territory that takes its name from discarded words meaning lemonade. It is part of a series of fruit-flavored languages that also includes Apple Pie, Mandarin Orange, Raspberry Wine, and Strawberry Icecream.

Pre-Proto-Moonshine (3958) to Sister Tadpole (~5200)

Rounded bilabials:      pʷ      mʷ  hʷ      w            
Plain bilabials:        p       m                   kp  ḳṗ
Alveolars:              t   ṭ   n   s       l   r
Palataloids:            č       ň   š   ž   y   ǯ
Velars:                 k   ḳ   ŋ   x   g
Labiovelars:            kʷ  ḳʷ  ŋʷ  xʷ  gʷ
Postvelars:             q       h

1. The bilabial nasal m shifted to mʷ.
2. The alveolars t ṭ n r shifted to pʷ ṗʷ mʷ m unconditionally. The fricative s shifted to sʷ.
3. The laterals l λ merged as l.
4. The fricatives hʷ ʕʷ shifted to f w.
5. The syllabic consonants ḷ ṁ ṅ ŋ̇ ṡ shifted to u um un uŋ usʷ. Note that /n/ survived.
6. The postalveolars č ň š ž ǯ shifted to c n s z ʒ, though they remained as postalveolars allophonically before or after any front vowel.
7. The velars k ḳ ŋ x g shifted to t t n s y. Then h also became ś.
8. The labiovelars kʷ ḳʷ ŋʷ xʷ gʷ shifted to k k ŋ h g.
9. The labial-velar coarticulated stops kp ḳṗ shifted to pʷ ṗʷ.

At this stage the language might have come to be influenced by Cosmopolitan Play languages.