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

Consonants Sino-Tibetan Merger Deaspiration

Voiceless aspirated retroflex affricate to Voiceless postalveolar affricate

The voiceless aspirated retroflex affricate [ʈʂʰ] merges with the voiceless postalveolar affricate [tʃ], often involving simultaneous deaspiration.

Phonetic Effects

Deaspiration, Merger, Fronting

Language Examples

Sinitic Dialects Sino-Tibetan

[ʈʂʰ]→[tʃ]— Complex merger involving loss of both retroflexion and aspiration.

Related Transformations

More Consonants Shifts

[b] → [p] — Voice Loss [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition [d] → [t] — Voice Loss [dz] → [l] — Deaffrication [ɡʱ] → [ʒ] — Palatalization

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