Proto-?

Changes from Proto-Eimistimeleis

 * 1) merger of palato-velars and velars
 * 2) spirantisation of word-initial, preconsonantal s into ɸ
 * 3) spirantisation of emphatics
 * 4) spiratisation of d into ɸ
 * 5) spirantisation of b into β
 * 6) spirantisation of g into ɣ
 * 7) affrication of emphatics
 * 8) affrication of g into j
 * 9) loss of approximants in plosives
 * 10) loss of k into k
 * 11) loss of g into g
 * 12) loss of l in cluster dl
 * 13) loss of word-final w
 * 14) loss of s after sonorants
 * 15) loss of word-initial vowels
 * 16) fortition of h into g before nasal (and subsequent metathesis of gn into ng)
 * 17) epenthesis of vowels before syllabic sonorants (postdates chain shifts)
 * 18) epenthesis of a before m and n when C◌̩(C)
 * 19) epenthesis of e before r and l when C◌̩(C)
 * 20) epenthesis of o before m and n when ◌̩C (perhaps originally aw)
 * 21) epenthesis of u before r and l when ◌̩C
 * 22) chain shift: ow into o, o into ó
 * 23) chain shift: ew into e, e into é
 * 24) chain shift: Vy into V, V into accented V
 * 25) chain shift: i into e, e into é