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[ʈʂ]→[tʃ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Consonants Sino-Tibetan Merger

Voiceless retroflex affricate to Voiceless postalveolar affricate

The voiceless retroflex affricate [ʈʂ] merges with the voiceless postalveolar affricate [tʃ] in various Sinitic dialects.

Phonetic Effects

Merger, Fronting

Language Examples

Sinitic Dialects Sino-Tibetan

[ʈʂ]→[tʃ]— Systemic merger of the retroflex series into the postalveolar series.

Related Transformations

More Consonants Shifts

[b] → [p] — Voice Loss [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition [d] → [t] — Voice Loss [dz] → [l] — Deaffrication [g] → [k] — Voice Loss

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