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This was an overview of changes that happened between the [https://web.archive.org/web/20210203120032/http://toaq.org/ Public Beta version of Toaq (2017)] and Toaq as spoken circa 2021.

This list is now both outdated and superfluous: the current description of the language at https://toaq.net/ is up-to-date.

==== Sounds and spelling ====
* An [https://toaqlanguage.wordpress.com/2019/07/25/on-the-sounds-of-toaq-phonology-update/ update] to the tones: the '''ǎ''' tone for relative clauses is now "rising glottal", and it is spelled '''ä'''. The '''ã''' tone for adverbs is now "falling glottal".
* There are new consonants '''z''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_alveolar_affricate#Voiced_alveolar_sibilant_affricate /d͡z/] and '''nh''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voiced_palatal_nasal /ɲ/]. There is a new vowel '''y''' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid_central_vowel /ə/].
* There are some new syllable endings, like '''uoı'''. They aren't fully set in stone yet.
* Syllables may start with an unwritten glottal stop, like '''elū''' (elephant). Within a word it's written with an apostrophe: '''elū'āı'''.
==== Vocabulary ====
* The interjections '''ha''', '''hıa''', '''hue''' are gone. Future interjections will probably look like: '''á''', '''è''', '''m̄'''.
* A few common words have moved: '''toaq''' (language) is now '''zu'''. '''deoq''' (talk) is now '''koy'''. '''suo''' (broken) is now '''zuy'''.
==== The [https://toaqlanguage.wordpress.com/2019/07/24/on-quantifiers-and-variables-grammar-update/ quantifiers update] ====
* Quantifiers now precede a falling-tone predicate phrase: '''sa rảı''' instead of '''sa ráı'''.
* '''sa kủnē''' binds a variable that may be referred back to using '''kúnē'''.
* '''do''' (the special variable name word) is no longer used, because every word can act like a variable name.
* '''baq''' is now a quantifier. '''baq pỏq''' means "people", the [[kind]], rather than "a person" or "some people".
* '''hoı''' ("the aforementioned…") is now a quantifier.
* ''Unofficial but popular:'' You can omit '''rảı''' after a quantifier, e.g. '''Gỉ tu da.''' "Everything is good." This may or may not bind '''ráı''', depending on who you ask.

==== The [[Small Grammar Update]] ====
* Adverbs no longer work like '''sủaq dẽ = dẻ sûaq'''. Instead they just embellish the assertion (like '''sủaq, na ru dẻ hôq''').
==== The new [https://toaqlanguage.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/toaqs-pronominal-system/ pronoun system] ====
* This is pretty big! Make sure to read the blog post.
* '''ho''' is now always "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaphora_(linguistics) anaphoric]": it refers to someone mentioned earlier in the text. The new "[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exophora exophoric]" third-person pronoun is '''nhao'''.
* '''ta''' is now a pronoun referring to adjectival descriptions like '''sa dẻ'''. There's no new 4th-slot tag to follow '''fı go cu'''.
==== [https://toaqlanguage.wordpress.com/2021/08/09/miscellanea-2/ Miscellanea #2] ====
* '''lu''' now works the same in every tone (it didn't quite before), and always binds '''hoa'''.
* '''la''' now starts a declaration the way '''ma''' starts a question. The fate of "old '''la'''" is undecided.
* Instead of '''lû''', say '''lâ''' now.
==== [https://toaqlanguage.wordpress.com/2021/08/13/miscellanea-3/ Miscellanea #3] ====
* '''ju''' takes a full sentence.
* '''lu''' is terminated by '''ky''', and relative/content clauses are terminated by '''cy'''.