Minor Lenian languages

South Dreamlandic languages

These are ordered east-to-west.

These lists assume that all three languages are from the same branch of the family as Dolphin Rider (DPR), rather than being related to Wildfire, PDP, or independent.

Lohi language

1. The mid vowel e, which occurred almost entirely after palatalized consonants, shifted to a. Thus, the vowel inventory was reduced to /a i u/, with frequent sequences of /ya wa yi wu/ but no others.
2. The true palatals ć ń ś shifted to č ň š .

   NOTE ON POLITICS: The main DPR list begins here.

3. The labiovelars kʷ ŋʷ hʷ shifted to pʷ mʷ fʷ unconditionally.
4. The sequences ya wa shifted to ye o.
5. In a closed syllable, the vowels i u lowered to e o. Long vowels did not shift.
6. The sequence āi shifted to ē.
7. Between vowels, the sequence ta shifted to ra.
8. The prenasals mp nt nč ŋk shifted to voiced stops b r r g.
9. The voiceless coronals t č š shifted to s . Meanwhile ň shifted to n.
10. The palatalized labials pʲ mʲ fʲ bʲ became f m f b. Thus palatalization was defeated.

    It appears that lʲ rʲ also shifted to l r.

11. The sequences hi hu shifted to si fu. Then ŋi shifted to ni.

    NOTE ON POLITICS: DPR breaks away at this point.

North Dreamlandic languages

These are ordered roughly west-to-east.

Cappini languages

Proto-Cappini was identical with Baywatch, but was grouped with the others for political reasons.

CONSONANTS:

Bilabials:       p   m           b   
Alveolars:       t   n   s   l   r     

And the vowels were /a e i o u/ in both short and long forms. The geminates /pp ss tt/ occurred, and there were sound gaps of */te so bo lo ro/, except in a few rare words where contraction of long vowels before geminates had created new short vowels there.

Cappini to Poise

This was the language spoken in Poise.

1. The alveolars t n shifted to k ŋ before any of /o u/.

   This shift was added in the assumption that the language would be taking in many loans from Oyster languages, but if this is not the case, this shift does not create any new phonemes and can be ignored.

2. Any singleton s disappeared to Ø.
3. The geminates pp ss tt kk shifted to p s t k.

Cappini to Wineapple

This was the language spoken in Olansele.

1. The alveolars t n shifted to k ŋ before any of /o u/.

Other languages

The states of Ládara, Etatăni, Halaspa, Pumpkin, and Pointer did not have their own languages.

Para-Birch languages

Bilabials:        p   m   f   w           
Alveolars:        t   n   s   l   
Postalveolars:            š   y                                  
Velars:           k   ŋ   h   g   

There were four vowels, and the diphthongs /ai əi au əu/. The tone system was à/ă/ā and the schwa only occurred on the low tone.

See also

• Paleo-Pabappa
• Macro-Pabap languages
• Dreamlandic languages
• Hipatal