[ǃ]→[q]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 2/5

Alveolar click to Voiceless uvular plosive

The transformation from an alveolar click [!] to a voiceless uvular stop [q]. This process, known as declickization, occurs when the front (anterior) click closure is lost, leaving the back (posterior) uvular closure as the primary articulation.

Phonetic Effects

Declickization, Place Preservation

Language Examples

Xhosa Bantu

[!]→[q]— The letter 'q' represents the alveolar click, reflecting its historical and phonetic connection to uvular articulation.

Dahalo Cushitic

[!]→[q] / [k]— Historical loss of clicks in certain environments results in dorsal stops.

Related Transformations

Reverse

More Bantu Shifts

[d] → [n] — Nasal Assimilation [j] → [ʑ] — Fortition [k] → [g] — Voicing [k] → [ɣ] — Lenition [ts] → [l] — Lenition

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