Aqqshog language

Sound Changes

1. /n/ > /∅/ at the end of words
2. Vowel Breaking: /a/ > /ai/ in stressed syllables
3. /ʔ/ > /h/ in intervocalic positions
4. Vowel Nasalization: /e/, /i/, /o/, /u/ become /ẽ/, /ĩ/, /õ/, /ũ/ before nasal consonants
5. /ɣ/ > /g/ in all positions
6. /č/ > /tʃ/
7. /d/ > /ð/ between vowels
8. /k/ > /q/ before back vowels
9. /l/ and /r/ merge to /r/
10. /s/ > /ʃ/ before front vowels
11. /t/ > /ts/ in word-final position
12. /u/ > /o/ after labial consonants
13. Consonant gemination in stressed syllables
14. Loss of unstressed initial vowels
15. Elision of /h/ in word-final position
16. /ai/ > /æ/
17. /oi/ > /ø/
18. /eu/ > /y:/
19. Metathesis in sequences of nasal + stop
20. Loss of glottal stop /ʔ/ at the beginning of words

Root Languages

• Proto-Kuzeyuruk language

Spoken by

• Aqqshog people