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Conlang Idea #1: Phonology Evolution Set B

Aside from that one set, I also thought of these ideas for the second descendant. Some ideas I intend involve getting rid of the pharyngeal consonants, though I'm keeping them on that one descendant. Compared to the desired inclusion of trilled affricates and pharyngealized consonants for that one language, I'm considering preglottalization and labialization. I might have ideas for sound changes leading to them.

A number of you reading this, if you classify as the type of person that would be interested, you might already know what labialization is. For those who don't, it's when a sound is produced with the lips involved. Labialized consonants are part of secondary articulation, and are common throughout several languages, including English(in which the rhotic is almost always labialized), other PIE languages like some of the Romance ones, Northwest Caucasian, etc. Although the glyph for the voiced bilabial fricative is written in the top-right corner of a glyph in IPA notation to signify labialization, a "w" is used in the top-right corner instead, even if there may be a velar quality in the pronunciation. That first-described transcription is used for something known as "voiced bilabial fricative release", which is another story.

Similar to palatalization, labialization could arise from consonants being followed by [u] or [w], and I'm thinking of labialized velars like [kʷ] and labialized alveolars like [sʷ]. I could include more, but not too many.

Glottalization is when the glottis is used simultaneously when one pronounces a sound of a different place of articulation, leading to the sound having the quality of a glottal stop mixed in. This could lead to the rise of ejectives like [p'], [t'], [k'], and [q']. Voiceless affricates and fricatives are also susceptible to gaining ejective correspondents in a language. Transcribing glottalized resonants involves a glottal stop in the top-right corner, and the Yokut languages are rich in them. 

Preglottalized consonants exist in other languages, and in place of glottalized ones as far as I'm aware. And maybe it's more common than that. I'm somewhat thinking of, alongside labialized and plain consonants, preglottalized ones. Maybe to pay homage to Wukchumni Yokut, I could include a preglottalized velar nasal, but maybe as an allophone of a preglottalized alveolar one in the proximity of velars, assuming I'd choose to delete vowels between nasals and other consonants in practical environments. Ejectives might also be possible.

There's also the stress system, which, in the protolang, involves the antepenult being stressed by default, and the penult taking its place if it has a long vowel. That one descendant language's stress system is intended for stress still falling on the antepenult by default, one exception being if the penult is closed(that syllable receiving the stress if so), the only other one being if the final syllable is closed and contains a long vowel(leading to that one being the stressed one).

For this language, I intend for the stress system to transition into the same one as Classical Oqolaawak, which is based on morae. Open syllables with short vowels are each one mora, unless it's a closed one or has a diphthong(both vowels in it being short) or a long vowel, in which the syllable is two morae, or unless it's a closed one with a long vowel or diphthong(both vowels in it being short), in which it is three morae. And stress would always fall on the third morae from the end of the word.

I'll stop there for now.