The Tongue · 1 living language

seed
syllable CV Odiw's vowels a i e u o Odiw's consonants t p s w k n m h r l d b ʃ
Generation 1
Influence
8/8
1 will drift

Map

+3+1O+3+1
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Mutual intelligibility

As the family fractures, mutual intelligibility between living languages appears here.

Family tree

Odiw0 chg

Odiw ◆ self · 1 region · will drift

conceptform
water tapi
fire se
stone wete
tree ku
leaf tati
root nusa
seed temi
fish himu
bird mi
dog pu
wolf ma
hand tasi
eye teta
ear pite
tooth popi
bone te
blood pi
skin tupe
meat pe
sun kusu
moon renu
star lu
sky ki
rain sipa
wind ko
hill ka
river depe
path ketu
house pata
night tu
day tuta
snow medi
eat pa
drink mubu
see nu
sleep punu
die ti
give pede
go bi
say lo
finish poki
i mupu
you leʃu
we sati
big peko
small nini
new putu
old mu

Phrases

VSO · AdjN· pro-drop
F1
mupa tapi
eat water
25%
F2
pa tapi
eat water
25%
F3
peko tapi
big water
25%
F4
tapi se
water fire
25%
past po1sg mu2 le1pl sa

Available changes

first change here +3 overhead
Intervocalic voicing
voiceless stop → voiced / V _ V 17w +1
Intervocalic spirantisation
voiceless stop → fricative / V _ V 17w +1
Apocope (final vowel loss)
vowel → ∅ / _ # syntax ×1.1 29w ·
Palatalisation
velar stop → palatal fricative / _ front V 3w ·
Final vowel raising
mid vowel → high / _ # syntax ×1.2 11w +4
Umlaut
back V → front / _ … front V (i-mutation: fōt/fēt) 3w ·
Vowel breaking
V → diphthong / _ # (unconditioned; e→ie, a→ai, u→uo…) syntax ×1.1 48w +4
Initial fortition
glide → voiced fricative / # _ (j→ʒ, w→v) syntax ×0.6 1w ·
Unstressed vowel reduction
unstressed V → ə (quality neutralised outside the stressed syllable) 29w +1
Unstressed syllable loss
unstressed V → ∅ (calidum → caldu; the engine of Latin → French) 29w +1