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Palatalized voiced bilabial plosive to Palatalized voiceless bilabial plosive

The voiced palatalized bilabial stop [bʲ] shifts to the voiceless palatalized counterpart [pʲ] through word-final devoicing in Slavic languages. This process affects all obstruents word-finally across Slavic consonant pairs, including palatalized stops.

Phonetic Effects

Devoicing, Final Position

Language Examples

Russian Slavic

[bʲ]→[pʲ]— Word-final devoicing of palatalized voiced stops

Polish Slavic

[bʲ]→[pʲ]— Final position devoicing applying to soft consonants

Related Transformations

Reverse Plain version of this devoicing process Depalatalization of voiced bilabial

More Slavic Shifts

[a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [b] → [p] — Voice Loss [dʲ] → [dʒ] — Affrication [d] → [dʑ] — Palatalization [d] → [t] — Voice Loss

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