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The PC languages were spoken by the aboriginals of the northeast of Rilola, and possibly also the northwest. They had been diverging for about 15000 years by the time of contact with Play speakers, but it is likely that one group overtook the rest at some point, perhaps multiple times, rather than having them diverge from each other for all 15000 years.

This may replace Haswaraba, despite the fact that cultures are in different places. See Outer Poswob languages for details, though I may have lost all records of the sound changes. It is possible that they are [1], and if so the phonology I was using for the parent language is very different from what it is now (it even had /f/).

The name PC describes its shifting the labiovelars to bilabials and the palatals to postalveolars, leaving just a single velar series. Note however that SE Laban, the branch that leads to MRCA, also does this.

Source phonology

Bilabials:      p   b   m   
Linguolabials:  þ   ð
Alveolars:      t   d   n   l   r   s
Postalveolars:          ň       ř
Palatals:       ć       ń   y
Velars:         k   ġ   ŋ  (Ø)      x
Labiovelars:    kʷ  ġʷ  ŋʷ (w)      xʷ
Glottals:                           h

The vowels were probably at least /a i u ə/ with two or more tones. There were no long vowels.

Primordial to Proto-PC

1. Syllable final -uŋ shifted to -um.
2. The alveolars t d n l s became dentals ṭ ḍ ṇ ḷ ṣ under some conditions.
3. The schwa vowel ə shifted to e when adjacent to a palatal, postalveolar, or linguolabial consonant.
4. The postalveolars ň ř shifted to n r under some conditions.
5. The palatals ć ń shifted to š ň unconditionally.
6. The bilabials p b m shifted to pʷ bʷ mʷ under some conditions.
7. The labiovelars kʷ ġʷ ŋʷ xʷ shifted to pʷ bʷ mʷ hʷ unconditionally.
8. The rounded vowel u MAY have shifted to ə.
9. The schwa vowel ə (including the new one) disappeared in word-initial position.
10. The vowels a ə e all shifted to o when adjacent to a labialized consonant in either direction. (Thus, labialization overrules palatalization.)
11. The labialized consonants pʷ bʷ mʷ shifted to p b m; however hʷ shifted to f.
12. The voiced velar stop ġ shifted to ž before a front vowel, to v before a back vowel, and disappeared to Ø otherwise. (This assumes there is either a new /u/ or that the preceding one didn't shift. Many lines were skipped.)
13. The glottal fricative h performed similarly, shifting to š before a front vowel, to f before a back vowel, and disappearing to Ø otherwise.
14. If a dental lateral ḷ still exists, it shifts to b (this was originally a stepwise change, and may include /v/).

The old sound change list does not explain the lack of schwa, and it is possible that the /ə/ > /e/ sound shift was intended to repeat twice.

Grammar

A closed class of adjectives for humans existed, where the stem of the adjective was surrounded by a circumfix marking gender and age.