[tʃ]→[ʒ]Certainty: 3/5Commonality: 2/5
Voiceless postalveolar affricate to Voiced postalveolar fricative
The transformation from the voiceless postalveolar affricate /tʃ/ to the voiced postalveolar fricative /ʒ/ is a type of lenition, involving both de-affrication and voicing. This sound change makes the consonant less obstruent and more sonorous, moving from a complex articulation (stop + fricative) to a simpler one (fricative) while also adding vocal cord vibration.
Phonetic Effects
De-affrication, Voicing
Language Examples
/tʃ/→/ʒ/— In Campidanese Sardinian, voiceless postalveolar affricates (/tʃ/) are reported to become voiced fricatives (/ʒ/) in intervocalic lenition contexts. For example, a word like 'pitʃoku' (young man) would have its /tʃ/ lenited to /ʒ/ if it occurred intervocalically.
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