Lâura
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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
- The bilabial nasal m shifted to mʷ.
- The alveolars t ṭ n r shifted to pʷ ṗʷ mʷ m unconditionally. The fricative s shifted to sʷ.
- The laterals l λ merged as l.
- The fricatives hʷ ʕʷ shifted to f w.
- The syllabic consonants ḷ ṁ ṅ ŋ̇ ṡ shifted to u um un uŋ usʷ. Note that /n/ survived.
- 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.
- The velars k ḳ ŋ x g shifted to t t n s y. Then h also became ś.
- The labiovelars kʷ ḳʷ ŋʷ xʷ gʷ shifted to k k ŋ h g.
- 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.