General Trends
Suppletive forms are very commonTables
Martial | Religious | Marine | Apeshit | There | |
Phonology | Move to CV syllable structure Openness/Rounding Vowel Harmony |
Relatively conservative, after rel-mar changes | Glottalisation phonemicised | ||
Vowel System | ~8 vowels, 5 long, 3 short | ||||
Numerical Phonemes (Ⅰ,Ⅱ,Ⅲ) | lost, vowels [+length] /f,v/ /z/ |
Phonemic Nasals | From ś | From rounded back vowels | Mostly through loans Something with voiced stops |
Vocabulary | Wide-reaching replacement with Metallic vocabulary | ||||
Little Adjectives | Merged into noun-class system; become derivational affixes | Basis for evidentiality system (S. Am. style) (perfect for academics...) | |||
Noun-Class | Postnouns abolished System elaborated, with interference from little adjectives |
Noun class system becomes morphosyntactic glue, replacing cases | Collapse into 2/3 gender systems | ||
Pronouns | 3P replaced by demonstrative | ||||
Nominal Morphology | Accusative replaced by Genitive III | Case system collapses, replaced by noun class | |||
Numeral System | Biquinary Native |
Decimal Native/Metallic |
Quinary Metallic |
Vigesimal Native |
Vigeesimal (diverse) Native |