Proto-I?

Changes from Proto-?

 * 1) epenthesis of vowels before w and accented vowels and shortening of vowel (owē > ue)
 * 2) affrication of intervocalic k (oko > ogho)
 * 3) affrication of intervocalic g (ogo > ocho)
 * 4) assimilation of dentals after nasals (nd > nn)
 * 5) assimilation of velars after dentals (gd > dd)
 * 6) sibilisation of intervocalic dentals (r ōten > raothé)
 * 7) merger of voiceless bilabial plosives and labiovelar approximants (w > p; exception, diphthongs)
 * 8) fortition of intervocalic bilabial plosives into aspirated bilabial plosives (b > bb)
 * 9) fortition of intervocalic sibilants into palato-alveolar fricatives (s > ss)
 * 10) fortition of labiovelar approximants before affricates (t ōw ɣen > taorché)
 * 11) epenthesis of vowels between liquids and nasals (alanen > alné, but not amar > amr)
 * 12) apocope of coronals and resultant nasalisation of vowels (dogen > dohhé)
 * 13) Vw > uV
 * 14) Vy > iV (exception; iy > ie)
 * ō, ē, ī, ā > ao, ae, oi, oa