A.M.D.G hello.jpg Broad Trends in the Diversification of the Languages of Everywhere, Tabulated

General Trends

Suppletive forms are very common

Tables

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