Sound Change Spreadsheet Discussion Thread
Sound Change Spreadsheet Discussion Thread
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? dhok posts: 235
, Alkali Metal, Norman, United States
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There are other threads like this out there, but we don't have one here. I've also heard murmuring in #isharia about making a database of sound changes, which probably won't go anywhere in the future, but so long as we're talking about it we may as well have a thread.

Arapaho is probably the most unusual Algonquian language, diachronically. Here are some of the more notable changes from Proto-Algonquian to Arapaho:

*k is deleted, unconditionally, in all environments, leaving no trace.

*p becomes *k to close the resulting gap.

*č and *θ (probably /θ/, but also possibly /ɬ/) merge to *θ. Note that Arapaho keeps *θ and *l separate, which most Algonquian languages don't.

Ojibwe voiced all obstruents except those in clusters (clusters then simplified).

Galician had g -> ħ (gheada).