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[d]→[dz]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 4/5

Assibilation Japonic

Voiced alveolar plosive to Voiced alveolar affricate

Assibilation of [d] to [dz] occurs when the stop develops a fricative release, often before high vowels.

Phonetic Effects

Assibilation

Language Examples

Japanese (historical) Japonic

[d] before [u]→[dz] (now [z])— Historical Japanese shift of /d/ to /dz/ (later /z/) before /u/.

Related Transformations

More Japonic Shifts

[d] → [dʑ] — Palatalization [i] → [∅] — Elision [kʲ] → [ts] — Palatalization [k] → [g] — Voicing [k] → [tsʰ] — Fronting

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