The rules of fort-shifting are as follows:
- all Rs, Ls, and N become D, except in fairy gender, in which they become T
- M becomes B
- fricatives, and the affricates TS and TTH become their respective plosives, voicing does not change (voiced stays voiced, unvoiced stays unvoiced)
- voiced plosives and the affricate J become unvoiced
- unvoiced plosives and the affricate CH shift in this way: P -> T -> CH -> K/Q -> P
Examples:
cara (friend) -> carïda (friendly)
datsu (mouse) -> datsïtu (mousy)
pan (woman) -> pïnda (feminine, womanly)
tan (man) -> tïnda (masculine, manly)
vo (demon) -> vïbo (demonic)