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Voiced aspirated alveolar plosive to Voiced alveolar flap

The transformation from a voiced aspirated (breathy voiced) dental stop to an alveolar flap is a process of lenition common in Indo-Aryan languages, where the stop closure is reduced to a brief tap.

Phonetic Effects

Lenition, Loss of Aspiration, Rhotacism

Language Examples

Indo-Aryan Languages Indo-Aryan

d̤/dʱ→ɾ— Common dialectal or fast-speech weakening of voiced dental aspirates into rhotic sounds.

Hindi Indo-Aryan

ɖʱ [retroflex]→ɽʱ— While primarily retroflex, this illustrates the systematic flappability of voiced aspirates in the family.

Related Transformations

Reverse Deaspiration Tapping

More Lenition Shifts

[a] → [∅] — Elision [ai] → [e] — Monophthongization [b] → [v] — Spirantization [tɕ] → [ʃ] — De-affrication [tɕ] → [ɕ] — Lenition

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