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[bʱ]→[v]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Spirantization Lenition Indo-Aryan Italic

Voiced aspirated bilabial plosive to Voiced labiodental fricative

The shift from [bʱ] to [v] represents a process of spirantization and lenition, where a voiced aspirated bilabial stop weakens into a voiced fricative (often labiodental [v] or bilabial [β]).

Phonetic Effects

Spirantization, Lenition

Language Examples

Modern Indo-Aryan dialects Indo-Aryan

[bʱ]→[v]— In many modern Indo-Aryan languages and dialects, original voiced aspirated stops have undergone weakening, sometimes resulting in fricatives like [v] or [β].

Spanish (Analogy) Italic

/b/→[β]— While not from an aspirated source, Spanish shows a prototypical lenition of voiced stops to fricatives in intervocalic positions, a process analogous to the spirantization of [bʱ].

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Lenition Shifts

[a] → [∅] — Elision [ai] → [e] — Monophthongization [b] → [v] — Spirantization [tɕ] → [ʃ] — De-affrication [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition

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