Cupbearer Coast
The native population of Mipatatatai, also known as Tata, spoke the Baywatch language. But as the Dreamers, the Players, the Crystals, the Matrix, the Zenith, the Soap, the Tinkers, the Slopes, the Cold Men, the Mirror, the Phoenixes, the Dolls, the Cupbearers, and the Storms sent their armies into Tata to fight for control of the territory and adjacent Baeba Swamp, more languages appeared.
If both labialized consonants and prenasalized consonants are analyzed as clusters, the phonology would be
Bilabials: p m b Alveolars: t n s l r
And the vowels /a e i o u/ in both short and long forms. The geminates /pp ss tt/ still remained, 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.
The coronal stop /t/ was allophonically [k] before any /o u/. Unlike the neighboring Dolphin Rider language, however, it remained [t] before /a/, and therefore [t] is considered the primary allophone. It was not palatalized before /e i/.
Baywatch (3370) to Tata-A (4800)
Note that the substratum language had likely already lost its /f/. see Oyster_language#Proto-Oyster (~2050) to Birch (~3310). Note also that the four-vowel inventory /a i u ə/ was not found in this area at the time, so there is no great pressure on this language to follow its shift of /o/ > /a/ with a shift of /e/ > /ə/.
Birch (which is probably intelligible with Plume) had lost its inherited freestanding /š č/, and although new palatals had been created from consonant + /j/, these were fairly rare, so there is no great pressure on Tata's Dreamer dialects to develop palatalization either.
- The alveolar stop t shifted to k before any /o u/.
- The vowel o shifted to a.
- The bilabial stops p b shifted to f v.
- This may be made less common by conditional fortition before the shift.
- The sequences pp mp shifted to p b.
- The sequences s ss shifted to h s.
- The sequences tt nt shifted to t d.
- Note that /t/ did not follow /p/ into lenition.
