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[tʃ]→[t]Certainty: 3/5Commonality: 3/5

Depalatalization Deaffrication Germanic Austronesian

Voiceless postalveolar affricate to Voiceless alveolar plosive

The transformation from 'ch' to 't' involves losing the palatal release, leaving only the simple alveolar stop.

Phonetic Effects

Depalatalization, Deaffrication

Language Examples

chair [tʃɛə]→tair [tɛə]— Common phonological simplification in first-language acquisition; affricate simplified to stop.

Polynesian Languages (Loanwords) Austronesian

church [tʃɜːtʃ]→[t-]— Polynesian languages lacking [tʃ] substitute [t] in English loanwords. The specific form 'tati' could not be verified; flagged as unconfirmed.

Related Transformations

Palatalization

More Germanic Shifts

[a] → [ã] — Assimilatory Nasalization [a] → [∅] — Elision [a] → [ʔ] — Glottalization [a] → [ə] — Vowel Reduction [æ] → [ɛ] — Vowel Raising

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