Southern Mulesuax

The Southern Mulesuax languages are a group of related languages descended from Mulesuax spoke to the south of the Mugua Peninsula. It is characterised by its contact and borrowings from Bresano and the Lesan Languages.

Sound Changes
The most obvious sound change is the loss of ejective consonants. In medial position these simple neutralised and merged with theire voiceless counterparts. Initally both ejectives became glottal stops which in most descendents were lost. w strengthened into p /pʷ/.

Consonants following u, i and e were iotacised or palatalised.

The vowel u /ʊ̆ʉ̆/ became a fully central rounded vowel /ʉ/, but backed to /u/ when /ɯ̆ʌ̆/ monophthongised to /ɯ/. e o /ɛ ɔ/ raised to /e o/, and the diphthongs ia and eo had different fates.