Elder Attran

Creative Constraints
no 'from thin air' affixes.

Sound changes and grammatical evolution, hoo boy!

We've reached mud!

Intended Use
Evolve into the Old languages and start some preliminary branching.

First Shift

 * 1) intervocalic h becomes ʔ
 * 2) vowels between ts, s, or x and ʔ become ə
 * 3) ə between consonants are lost
 * 4) tsʔ, sʔ, xʔ become ts', s', x'
 * 5) iː breaks into ji in unstressed syllables
 * 6) io and iä become jo and jä in unstressed syllables
 * 7) word final i is lost
 * 8) regular words derived from names beginning with l' have their initial click change to θ instead of ts or s

Second Shift

 * 1) names derived from words beginning with θ begin with l' in all environments
 * 2) word final ä becomes ə
 * 3) ä between stops becomes ə
 * 4) intervocalic t, c, k, ts, s, x become d, ɟ, g, dz, z, ɣ
 * 5) intervocalic t', c', k' ts', s', x' become t, c, k, ts, s, x
 * 6) word internal unstressed tsj, dzj, sj, zj, xj, ɣj palatalize to tʃ, dʒ, ʃ, ʒ, ç, and the j in these sequences is is lost

Clicks
Elder Attran's click inventory has expanded to match its expanded regular consonants, and due to name-clicking voiced clicks appear.