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[a]→[ui]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5

Rounding Fronting Diphthongization Romance

Open front unrounded vowel to Diphthong ui

The shift from [a] to [ui] represents an extreme path of diphthongization involving both fronting and rounding, often through intermediate stages.

Phonetic Effects

Rounding, Fronting, Diphthongization

Language Examples

Romance dialects Romance

Latin [a]→[ui]— This specific shift from Latin [a] to [ui] is unattested in Gallo-Romance dialects. Latin [a] typically fronted to [æ] and merged with [e] or [ɛ], or diphthongized to [ay] before nasals. Existing [ui] diphthongs tended to monophthongize to [y].

Related Transformations

Reverse Fronting/Rounding

More Rounding Shifts

[ã] → [õ] — Raising [a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [ai] → [e] — Monophthongization

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