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Palatalization Affrication Consonant Shift Japonic Slavic Indo-European

Voiced alveolar plosive to Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate

The transformation of a voiced alveolar plosive /d/ into a voiced alveolo-palatal affricate /d͡ʑ/ is a common palatalization process in historical linguistics. This shift typically occurs when /d/ is followed by a high front vowel like /i/ or a palatal approximant /j/, where the tongue's articulation moves closer to the hard palate, resulting in both a palatalized articulation and an affricate release.

Phonetic Effects

Palatalization, Affrication

Language Examples

Late Middle Japanese Japonic

/di/→[d͡ʑi]— The alveolar stop /d/ assibilated to a voiced alveolo-palatal affricate [d͡ʑ] before the high front vowel /i/.

Serbian Slavic

/d/ + -je→[d͡ʑ]— Iotation, a type of palatalization, causes /d/ to shift to [d͡ʑ] when followed by the suffix -je.

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[d]→[dʑ]Certainty: 5/5Commonality: 5/5

Voiced alveolar plosive to Voiced alveolo-palatal affricate

Phonetic Effects

Language Examples

Related Transformations

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Sources & References

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