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

Voiceless postalveolar affricate to Voiceless palatal plosive

The shift from the postalveolar affricate [tʃ] to the voiceless palatal stop [c] is a process of deaffrication. It occurs when the fricative release is dropped, leaving only the stop closure in the palatal region. This is observed in certain historical sound changes where affricates simplify to plain stops before front vowels.

Phonetic Effects

Deaffrication, Stop Simplification

Language Examples

Spanish (some dialects) Romance

ll [ʎ] or [ʒ]→[c] (archaic/regional)— In certain conservative dialects, the palatal lateral or fricative may reanalyze as a stop; not a standard shift but attestable in older forms.

Related Transformations

Affrication (common forward)

More Romance Shifts

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

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