User:Soap/East

The parent language. Had only /h/ using internal reconstruction, but this could have been several fricatives that merged.

Bilabials:       p    b    m
Alveolars:       t    d    n    l    r
Postalveolars:   č    ǯ
Palatals:                       (y)
Velars:          k    ġ    ŋ    (Ø)       h

Vowels were /a i u ə/.

The syllable structure is CVC, with final consonants restricted to /t n l r č k ġ ŋ/; the "g" was probably [ɣ] in this position and might have actually arisen from earlier /h/ or from the fricatives that themselves led to /h/. Underlying root-final voiced stops are possible, as is /-p/, but they were not realized as such.

Notes on diachronics

Ideally, User:Soap/Birch is a branch of this which splits off after the lenition of /č ǯ/ to /s y/ (conditionally) and probably also after a re-shaping of the vowel system to /a e i o u/ but before most of the other shifts that make Birch what it is.

Motherport branch

Ideally, as above, this is closely related to Commercial/Birch but without its most characteristic shifts. Thus the shifts shared with Birch are placed as high up as possible.

1. The vowels i u shifted to e o in closed syllables except those ending with one of /r ŋ/.