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[bʲ]→[b]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 3/5

Palatalized voiced bilabial plosive to Voiced bilabial plosive

Depalatalization, or hardening, is the loss of the palatal secondary articulation of a consonant. It typically occurs when a language simplifies its phonemic inventory or in specific phonetic environments, such as before back vowels or word-finally in certain dialects.

Phonetic Effects

Hardening, Loss of Palatalization

Language Examples

Russian (Historical) Slavic

golub' [bʲ]→golub [b]— Final depalatalization of labials occurred in several Slavic languages, such as Czech and Polish, where historical soft labials hardened at the end of words.

Related Transformations

palatalization

More Slavic Shifts

[a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [dʲ] → [dʒ] — Affrication [d] → [dʑ] — Palatalization [e] → [i] — Vowel Raising [e] → [o] — Backing

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